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. |
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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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