UAE for the wii WIP - Amiga Emulator for Wii

[wraggster]

DCEmu Forum Member and Coder Simon Kagstrom posted this on his blog:

As has been discussed in comments before, I've started a googlecode project for a Nintendo Wii port of UAE, the Universal Amiga Emulator. It's based on the latest and greatest E-UAE sources and is built for SDL all the way.

Those that are familiar with the Wii homebrew "scene" will know that there is another port of UAE by someone called "Gouky". However, he never released sources for this even after repeated inquiries of it - which makes it a clear GPL violation. Clearly bad behavior, and this is the main reason I started this.

Today I have some progress to show:

http://uae-wii.googlecode.com/files/budbrain-wii-800.jpg

That's a screenshot from an old Amiga demo. As you can see, graphics is a bit misaligned. Sound is also pretty wrecked and input does not work at all. It also crashes a lot, but it's progress at least. I'd like to invite other Wii developers to join in on this port, I will not be able to do it all by myself.

Update: Sound now works excellent, and I've found the cause of the crash. I'm able to play shufflepuck cafe as SDL has mouse emulation. It's very difficult though.

http://simonkagstrom.livejournal.com/43557.html

[paul3100]

This is fantastic news :-)

I love the amiga and to see a new version hit the wii is great, i can't help with the project as i have no programming ability but would love to help test it as i have loads of free time and grew up playing the amiga a500/600 & 1200 so know my way around an amiga .

regards, paul

[WhizzBang]

Wow, great news! I´ll look forward to the first release.

[XDelusion]

At last I can exhale! Thank you thank you thank you! Amiga was the BEST computer ever!

[Baboon]

This really is fantastic news! :)

[geise69]

This is really great to hear! This is what I've really been wanting on the Wii. Definitely one of my most anticipated releases. Thanks for all your work so far on this!

[boydd_uk]

It's a shame that authors don't release source code (or at least continue to develop their project). There seems to be many projects that turn out to be like space junk clogging up cyber space. Because nobody can take the project forward.

Glad to see you are doing it the right way and I hope you get people (with more brains than I) working on the project with you.

Respect

[SimonKagstrom]

See this thread (http://http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=207513) and this wiki page on wiibrew (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/UAE_Wii), the first version has been released.