A Interview with Jesper Svennevid:

The maker of a SuperNES emulator....

Could you tell me about it?

Well.. What is there to tell? :) It's a emulator emulating a 65816 running in a SuperNES :) It started when I spoke to Orbit(A/NES developer) about a 6502 emulator that I wrote, and didn't have any use for it.. He tipped me about writing a SuperNES emulator, and well.. Here we are.. :) It will run on any Amiga equipped with at least a 68020 and AGA. It will utilize optimizations such as Cybergraphics, and hopefully(when I can afford it :) PPC, if made available to the computer.

What is the Requirements?

The requirements will be:
Processor: MC68020 (030-060 preferred, PPC will be an option) Graphics: AGA (CGFX when I get it to work more effectivly) Memory: 512kB - 4MB (Depending on the size of the game)

How fast will it be?

Well.. The CPU is VERY fast right now, so the real bottle-neck will be graphics, but I hope that I'll solve that in some way. The PPC may solve a BIT of those problems :)

When will it be finished?

Hehe.. Now THAT's a question :) I will hopefully get the graphics running soon, so then I can start working with the more complex hardware-registers and instructions.

When did you start and how far has you come?

I started the development in the beginning of August, and have up til now developed 89 CPU instructions, 25 hardware registers and have started to mess with graphics and DMA.

Does it work jet? (If it does, how good?)

Well.. The CPU-works, and I can set colors and transfer gfx-data to VRAM. Too bad I can't display it. :)

Well.... thats all. thanks for informing us :)

This is new in this version:

• Fixed backgroundcolour (again).
• Added Mapper#11.
• Major speed improvements.
• Turned of filters (will be selectable).
• Fixed border bug.
• Rewrote soundroutines.(much better than v0.41b)

24.08.97