Wzonka-Lad is a Nintendo
Game Boy emulator for the
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...
series of
home computers.
History
Wzonka-Lad was written by Ville Helin
in
68020
The Motorola 68020 ("''sixty-eight-oh-twenty''", "''sixty-eight-oh-two-oh''" or "''six-eight-oh-two-oh''") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984. A lower-cost version was also made available, known as the 68EC020. In keeping ...
assembler.
The reason why Wzonka-Lad came to be was Virtual Game Boy (VGB), a Game Boy emulator written in
C ported to Amiga. It ran so slowly on Amiga hardware that Helin decided to write one faster in
assembly language
In computer programming, assembly language (or assembler language, or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as Assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence be ...
.
The emulator requires at least a 68020 processor, provides several options to vary game speed and colours
and supports graphics and sound cards (via
CyberGraphX
CyberGraphX (pronounced "cybergraphics"), is the standard ReTargetable Graphics API available for the Amiga and compatible systems. It was developed by Thomas Sontowski and Frank Mariak and later adopted by Phase5 for use with their graphics card ...
and
AHI).
In comparison to other Game Boy emulators for Amiga, version 0.64 was slower and more compatible than AmigaGameBoy, but faster than Unix ports like VGB.
Version 0.99 was able to achieve playable speed for most games on
68030 50 MHz processor.
In August 2003, Wzonka-Lad dropped its
shareware
Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer ...
status, and was released as
free software under the
GPL-2.0-only license.
References
External links
Wzonka-Lad homepage
Amiga emulation software
Game Boy emulators
Shareware
Assembly language software
Free video game console emulators
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