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Nintendo GameCube Emulator for Windows
Dolwin is an emulator of Nintendo Gamecube console. This platform is based on PowerPC-derivative processor, produced by IBM Corp. and codenamed Gekko. Dolwin mainly purposed to emulate homebrewn applications.
Emulator is using such techinques as interpreter and just-in-time compiler. It has debugger interface to trace emulated application. Dolwin has friendly user interface and file list selector.
Hardware emulation is based on plugin system. There are graphics, sound, audio and DVD plugins. All plugins are also included in project.
Dolwin supports high-level emulation (known as HLE) of Gamecube operating system and some additional system calls.
Dolwin is composed as integrated project for Metrowerks CodeWarrior and Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0+. Main language is plain C, with some IX86 assembly optimisations.
Why "Dolwin" ?
Dolwin originally stands for "Nintendo Dolphin Emulator for Windows" (Dolphin is Gamecube codename). Later "Dolphin" was changed to "Gamecube", чтобы не было путаницы с другим эмулятором - Dolphin-emu.
This project is a bit outdated, but it can be revived in near future.
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