Wzonka-Lad is a Nintendo Game Boy emulator for the Amiga series of home computers.[1]
History[]
Wzonka-Lad was written by Ville Helin[1] in 68020 assembler.[2]
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.[1]
The emulator requires at least a 68020 processor, provides several options to vary game speed and colours[3] and supports graphics and sound cards (via CyberGraphX and AHI).[2]
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.[3] Version 0.99 was able to achieve playable speed for most games on 68030 50 MHz processor.[2]
At the end of its life, Wzonka-Lad dropped its shareware status, and became GPL open source software.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Compton, Jason (January 23, 1997). "Emulation Rambler, Gameboy? No way! Yes way! (VGB and WzonkaLad)". Amiga Report International Online Magazine 5 (1). http://www.amigareport.com/ar501/review2.html. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Němec, Luboš (January 1999). "GameBoy aneb pidihry na Amize, Wzonka-Lad 0.99.12" (in Czech). Amiga Review (Atlantida Publishing) (40): 19. ISSN 1211-1465.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Goodwin, Simon (July 1997). "Emulators Part 10: Console Emulation, GameBoy". Amiga Format (Future Publishing) (99): 27-28. ISSN 0957-4867.
- ↑ "Wzonka-Lad-Source unter GPL veröffentlicht" . Amiga-News.de. August 15, 2003. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
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| Consoles | Game Boy (Pocket • Light) • Color • Advance family (Advance • SP • Micro • Visteon Dockable Entertainment) | |
| Accessories | Afterburner • Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter • Game Boy Camera • Game Boy Player • Game Boy Pocket Sonar • Game Boy Printer • Game Link Cable • GameBooster • Nintendo 64 transfer pak • Nintendo e-Reader • Nintendo GameCube – Game Boy Advance link cable • Nintendo Power • Play-Yan • Super Game Boy • Wide-Boy64 • WormCam | |
| Games | Game Boy (best-sellers) • Color • Advance (best-sellers) • Super Game Boy • multiplayer titles | |
| Emulation | BoycottAdvance • NO$GBA • VisualBoyAdvance • Wzonka-Lad | |
| Related | Game Boy Advance family | |