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Title: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: Daff on June 24, 2009, 03:31:44 PM
Today, the magazine Obligement publish an interview with Toni Willen, the coder of WinUAE, the Amiga emulator for Windows. You can read it on http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwwillen_en.php
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: NovaCoder on June 25, 2009, 02:57:27 AM
Cool thanks for the link, great read :)
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: hooligan on June 25, 2009, 04:49:18 AM
Interesting reading. Somehow I love his answer about Cloanto giving him money, " I have gotten Amiga hardware donations from Cloanto and it is much more useful than some money.", shows true commitment to work for free, which is rare these days.
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: cecilia on June 25, 2009, 05:49:19 PM
Quote from: hooligan;513371
Interesting reading. Somehow I love his answer about Cloanto giving him money, " I have gotten Amiga hardware donations from Cloanto and it is much more useful than some money.", shows true commitment to work for free, which is rare these days.

that's why winUAE is so successful and continues development.

true love
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: x303 on June 27, 2009, 08:57:30 PM
Toni sounds a bit depressed, he loses interest in things very quickly. Hope he likes amiga that much more than his other projects.

x303 :D :D :D
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: Marcb on June 27, 2009, 09:07:07 PM
Interesting guy,

I owe my rekindled interest in Amigas in part to him and Winuae, aside from emulating I use Winuae to quickly set up HDs & CFs to use on real miggys..

I was surprised to read it's mostly written in C!
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: cv643d on June 27, 2009, 09:31:26 PM
I agree, I get the feeling he answers the question being slightly depressed or bitter.

But on the other hand, I am half finish so I know people from Finland are slightly bitter and short worded.

No.

Its just the way people are over there.
Title: Re: Interview with Toni Willen
Post by: Jope on June 28, 2009, 02:34:02 PM
He's far from depressed. If he's not interested in some problem, then he won't ruin his day obsessing over it. He'll do something else and return back to it later when he's more motivated. :-)

Great Nations and NHLInfo were in active development for many years before they were abandoned, so they aren't really an indication of the shortness of his attention span either.