Akiko CD32/CDTV Emulator for Windows - part five microinterview
A microscopic interview consisting of two questions I asked Andreas Falkenhahn - the author of the Akiko emulator - about his software:
Me: "I am very curious after your tweaked version of WinUAE. I've tried some games on the latest WinUAE and not all went well. I
am also going to have a look at your one in form of a small article. I think the way you went about it is rather smart as you did some patching and tweaking the 1200 emulation rather than emulating the whole cd32? Andreas:"Yes. Akiko does not emulate any hardware but just patches the software to use special routines provided by Akiko's adapted version of WinUAE. Thus, it is often much faster than the WinUAE CD32 emulation.
Me: "Would you like to tell me how you came about developing the WinUAE into a specific cd32 emulator and how you went about it?" Andreas:"Akiko is actually a Windows port of my Amiga program called CD32 Games Install Kit (see my website). CD32 Games Install Kit was created to start CD32 games on an A1200 from harddisk and that is pretty much what Akiko does now under WinUAE."
Well perhaps Bill could test out this software on a real Amiga 1200. To me it seems to function a little like the HDLoader program that allowed regular disk-based software to be installed and booted from within Workbench from Harddisk/drive.
Me: "I am very curious after your tweaked version of WinUAE. I've tried some games on the latest WinUAE and not all went well. I
am also going to have a look at your one in form of a small article. I think the way you went about it is rather smart as you did some patching and tweaking the 1200 emulation rather than emulating the whole cd32?
Andreas: "Yes. Akiko does not emulate any hardware but just patches the software to use special routines provided by Akiko's adapted version of WinUAE. Thus, it is often much faster than the WinUAE CD32 emulation.
Me: "Would you like to tell me how you came about developing the WinUAE into a specific cd32 emulator and how you went about it?"
Andreas: "Akiko is actually a Windows port of my Amiga program called CD32 Games Install Kit (see my website). CD32 Games Install Kit was created to start CD32 games on an A1200 from harddisk and that is pretty much what Akiko does now under WinUAE."
Well perhaps Bill could test out this software on a real Amiga 1200. To me it seems to function a little like the HDLoader program that allowed regular disk-based software to be installed and booted from within Workbench from Harddisk/drive.
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