Interview with Toni Willen

[Daff]

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

[NovaCoder]

Cool thanks for the link, great read

[hooligan]

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.

[cecilia]

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

[x303]

Toni sounds a bit depressed, he loses interest in things very quickly. Hope he likes amiga that much more than his other projects.

x303

[Marcb]

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!

[cv643d]

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.

[Jope]

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.