Q: Isn't that illegal selling an emulator that's under the GPL?
A: No, it's not. The money is not charged for the WinUAE. The source code
and the binaries of the Akiko enhanced version of WinUAE is available for
free on my homepage. However, this version is useless without Akiko. The
fact why Akiko is Shareware is that it bases on my CD32 Games Install Kit
which was also Shareware on the original Amiga. All patches were borrowed
from the Install Kit, so why shan't Akiko be Shareware? Once again, you pay
the Shareware fee for Akiko and not for WinUAE. That emulator is free and
will stay free as far as I know.
Q: Give me the source code of your Akiko enhanced version then!
A: No problem, just go to the Airsoft Softwair web site
and download it by yourself.
Q: What about the roms? Can't you include them in the distribution pack? I thought Commodore was dead.
A: No I absolutely can't include them in the Akiko distribution because
they are still copyrighted. You are right that Commodore is dead, but
the rights are now owned by Amiga Inc. and so noone is allowed to
spread the roms. And you may only use the rom images if you have them as
original chips somewhere on your Amiga motherboards.
Q: I have a lot of Amigas. How do I grab their roms then?
A: Use the program TransRom which is included in the WinUAE distribution.
Save it to a disk, execute it on your Amiga and copy the rom image
back to your PC.
Q: What is your favorite CD32 game?
A: Soccer Kid! Because it has great animations, cool CD soundtrack and
is a great game anyway. The developer team did a really good job with
this one.
Q: The game freezes.
A: Be sure to have sound turned on if you experience weird game freezes, because
many games won't work with the sound emulation disabled (they want to time
their behaviour with the sound which won't work if there is no sound).