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'''Wzonka-Lad''' is a [[Nintendo Game Boy]] emulator for the [[Amiga]] series of computers.
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| author = Ville Helin
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| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2004|01|03|df=yes/no}}<ref name="WL Site">{{cite web |title=Wzonka-Lad - Yet Another Gameboy Emulator for Amiga Computers |url=https://www.villehelin.com/wzonka-lad.html |website=www.villehelin.com |access-date=20 May 2022}}</ref>
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'''Wzonka-Lad''' is a Nintendo [[Game Boy]] emulator for the [[Amiga]] series of [[home computer]]s.<ref name="AmigaReport501">{{cite magazine|last=Compton|first=Jason|date=January 23, 1997|title=Emulation Rambler, Gameboy? No way! Yes way! (VGB and WzonkaLad)|url=http://www.amigareport.com/ar501/review2.html|magazine=Amiga Report International Online Magazine|volume=5|issue=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228180411/http://www.amigareport.com/ar501/review2.html|archive-date=December 28, 2014|access-date=March 7, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
== History==
Wzonka-Lad was written by [[Ville Helin]] in the [[1990s]] and [[2000s]]. Wzonka-Lad only emulates the Game Boy processor and hardware interaction - it does not contain the Game Boy [[Read Only Memory|ROM]] or any games. These must be acquired separately.
Wzonka-Lad was written by Ville Helin<ref name="AmigaReport501"/> in [[68020]] assembler.<ref name="Amiga Review 40">{{cite magazine|last=Němec|first=Luboš|date=January 1999|title=GameBoy aneb pidihry na Amize, Wzonka-Lad 0.99.12|url=https://amigareview.amiga.sk/amiga-review-40/gameboy-aneb-pidihry-na-amize|magazine=Amiga Review|language=Czech|publisher=Atlantida Publishing|issue=40|page=19|issn=1211-1465|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529170507/https://amigareview.amiga.sk/amiga-review-40/gameboy-aneb-pidihry-na-amize|archive-date=May 29, 2016|access-date=March 12, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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The emulator requires at least a 68020 processor, provides several options to vary game speed and colours<ref name="Amiga Format 99">{{cite magazine|last=Goodwin|first=Simon|date=July 1997|title=Emulators Part 10: Console Emulation, GameBoy|url=https://archive.org/stream/AmigaFormatIssue099199707FuturePublishingGB300dpi#page/n25/mode/2up|magazine=[[Amiga Format]]|publisher=Future Publishing|issue=99|pages=27–28|issn=0957-4867|access-date=March 12, 2020}}</ref> and supports graphics and sound cards (via [[CyberGraphX]] and [[AHI (Amiga)|AHI]]).<ref name="Amiga Review 40"/>
==External links==
*[http://www.hut.fi/~vhelin/wzonka-lad.html Wzonka-Lad homepage]
 
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.<ref name="Amiga Format 99"/> Version 0.99 was able to achieve playable speed for most games on systems with a [[68030]] 50&nbsp;MHz processor or higher.<ref name="Amiga Review 40"/>
 
In August 2003, Wzonka-Lad dropped its [[shareware]] status, and was released as [[free software]] under the [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0-only]] license.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hut.fi/~vhelin/news.html|title=Wzonka-Lad News|date=2003-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050227021021/http://www.hut.fi/~vhelin/news.html|archive-date=2005-02-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2003-08-00075-DE.html|title=Wzonka-Lad-Source unter GPL veröffentlicht|publisher=Amiga-News.de|date=August 15, 2003|language=German|accessdate=March 7, 2018}}</ref>
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==References==
[[Category:Amiga software]]
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==External links==
*[httphttps://www.hutvillehelin.fi/~vhelincom/wzonka-lad.html Wzonka-Lad homepage]
 
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