YakYak

I'd have a bash at adding it to Emu if there was any code knocking about . Haven't tried reverse-engineering anything completely blind yet...

Oh, yes.

*keeps fingers crossed something turns up*

Got to be better than a bog seat and a pram wheel

I would love to play some ultra rare konix games.

Well, for a start - how's this for ressurecting an old post?

Ok - there's some news that I'm keen to share and here is a safe place to do it.

Paul Blythe is currently writing a Konix Multisystem Emulator.

This has been born from another quite exciting piece of news that I'm not really at liberty to announce just yet, just surfice to say that it's a pretty noisy and lively cat that's waiting to be let out of the bag and I'm struggling to hold it in.

Now, Paul seems completly convinced that he'll have his emulator up and running in no time - for the uninitiated, Paul was the lucky sod who was charged with developing the code (OS I understand and possibly SDK?) for the 2nd version of the Multisystem that MSU tried to relaunch. He had to train lots of Chinese 'programmers' in the dark arts of the Slipstream chipset and the ever changing CPU spec as Wyn was more and more keen/desperate to milk more performance from it in the face of competition such as the Playstation. Paul promises some very impressive tech demos, wether we'll ever see any actual origional game code running on this like AMC 89 depends entirely on luck and programmers being kind enough to really dig through their archives to see if they have any source / binaries.

Paul is trying to get other programmers interested in making at least one game that can run on his emulator - this is pretty darn exciting I think.
I'm holding off putting this information on my website until there's something tangeable to show. There was an emulator created for the basic 2D aspect of the Slipstream chipset based on the Bellfruit one-arm-bandit implementation, however we'll get the full DSP aspects from this dedicated KMS emulator.

And the other news... well, you can try guessing or you'll just have to wait.

But it hurts to guess!

*I think I may have a canoe in my pocket*

Wow....properly exciting stuff...can't wait to hear more!

Interesting stuff about the Konix, read about it during the vaporware time in the mags. Looked interesting, but there were points of "Why they do that?" in regards to screen resolution and CPU "8086! Really! Odd Choice over a Z80". So paint me interested on the emulator front....

Amazing stuff!
Come on Jeff, I want to play AMC '89!

Is it [time whenever the emulator and games are playable] yet?

I'll let you know - so far I've seen a static screenshot of the logo running in a XP window. But I have complete faith that we'll see something moving sooner rather than later.

It would be fun if someone wanted to attampt a tribute AMC on it. It would be great to see AMC 2010 as it sounds like the kind of SCI-FI date that someone would use in 89.

*shoots load*
when i was a kid, this thing was in my dreams regularly (along with the neo geo and pc engine)

Games that weren't that were again! I'd love to see this emulator!

Yak has found his original source code?

Not as far as I know - Goat that would be awesome wouldn't it?

This does raise the point (and I didn't really want to push Paul on this too much in case I dissuaded him from creating the emulator) of the validity of creating an emulator for an unreleased games machine where there is a high chance that we will never see any original games from the time being run on it.

Yes - it's very clever that he can produce this simulation of the hardware and he can probably do it such that it is a very good approximation. But if there's no real games, it'll always just be an interesting exercise in programming rather than some form of preservation or even the closest I'll get to a time machine that can take me back to 1989.

That said, it may give us all an insight into what the machine was actually capable of and we can use that as a benchmark.