Introduction

Akiko is the first CD32 & CDTV emulator for Microsoft(r) Windows(r). It makes use of the Amiga emulator WinUAE which is available for free under the Gnu Public Licence (GPL).

The Amiga CD32 is a game console which was manufactured by Commodore in late 1993 short before Commodore went bankrupt. The CD32 was able of displaying 16.7 million colors, had a 32bit cpu and 2 megabytes of graphics ram which was quite much in those days and it also had a double speed CD-ROM drive which allowed games to use audio tracks and huge animations. The CD32 also had a nonvolatile memory block to allow game saves. Unfortunately the CD32 was not really successful due to the bankruptcy of Commodore although it was ahead of its time.
The CDTV (Commodore Dynamic Total Vision) was meant as a multimedia device for every living room. It was also manufactured by Commodore, but earlier than the CD32. The CDTV was made available in 1991 and it had a single speed CD-ROM as well as a 16bit cpu and 512 kilobytes of graphics memory. It also had a block of nonvolatile memory. The CDTV looks like an audio CD player which fits in with any stereo set. But basically it is "just" an Amiga 500 with a CD-ROM drive. The CDTV was not successful either because of Commodore's bad marketing and because the games were too expensive.


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