Introduction

Like most famous systems, when people move on to other platform or don't have access to the original hardware, but they still want to get there Amiga fix, or might like to have access to Amiga vast library on another platform. Emulation has been a successful way to achieve this and thanks to years of development Amiga community is lucky enough to have a really well built emulation in form of UAE (universal amiga emulation), this basic layer has formed to be the frame work for many different type of emulations, this page will look at the most popular ones.

Amiga Forever

The PPC emulation is much faster but I ran into some incompatiblities that weren't there before. On OS3.9 I tried some PPC datatypes. Jpg and tiff images loaded at the speed they do on a real Amiga with a Cyberstorm PPC. It turns out that the grandmaster of Amiga emulation, Toni Wilen, has started adding PPC-support to WinUAE What this means? It will make it possible to run AmigaOS 4.1 for classic systems through emulation. I’m definitely interested in that and I believe many others are as well. You can read more over at Indie Retro News. PPC CPU core plugin, WinUAE 3.0 or later 1.5.1+ Direct3D Pixel Shader filters. Not all are Direct3D 11 mode compatible. Improved drive sounds Portaudio library Download miscellaneous utilities USSLoad Load UAE save state files (.uss) on real hardware. List and extract Amiga based disk images and archives.

Developed by Cloanto, its the only officially sold Amiga emulation that also includes all the Amiga original Roms / Kickstart chipsets that are necessary to emulate most Amiga systems. Largely targets the PC market but does also have Mac emulator and Kickstart rom set available for purchase on the Google Play store for Android market. The PC package is largely based on WinUAE, buts adds a number of extra features, one being the Retro Platform, which is designed to help identify the Amiga systems/setting you require for the program your trying to run. Plus version comes with a range of pre-setup Amiga systems and programs. available in both download or CD/DVD form.

Full Version Cost: £29.95 / Aimed: PC Emulators

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WinUAE

Most likely the best emulator developed for any computer, the amount of work gone in to not only support and emulate the systems but third party addons is nuts. By the name you should be able to tell its been designed for Windows systems. You can emulate the first Amiga A1000, with just 7mhz and original chip set graphics all the way up to PPC, Graphics Card Equipped Amiga. The emulator comes with Amos Kickstart that can run some Amiga Games and Apps but it recommended to the get the above Amiga Forever package to have a complete Amiga experience.

Cost: Free / Aimed: PC

Online / Browser Scripted Amiga Emulation (SAE)

Free Audio CD Rippers

Thanks to ever advancing web tech with Html 5 and Javascript it now possible to emulate complete gaming system, this of course now includes the Amiga. It still early days of this setup and you need to have quite a powerful computer to run this type of emulation but its bound to only get better. The Internet Archive web site did add nearly the whole Amiga library of Amiga games, 10,000 titles on there site, however many have since been removed due to licenses and the number has gone down to 4,000 with many of them just being demo versions of popular Amiga games.

Other Emulators

There are many other Emulators for the Amiga

E-UAE, FS-UAE, WinFellow, just to name a few, this page may expand to cover them at a later date.

See Full List On Thefreecountry.com

Futher Reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator)

A General Overview to Emulating the Commodore Amiga - Caffeinated Pixel Great Blog post on WinUAE and general Amiga emulation tips.

For finding games:

• WHDownLoad – a repository of pre-installed WHDLoad games
• Turran’s WHDLoad Pack Downloader — this is a tool for downloading pre-installed WHDLoad games from the English Amiga Board’s FTP site. These often have more up-to-date slave files than the games available on the WHDownLoad.
• WHDLoad – official WHDLoad site, which also contains a repository of game installers (note that these are not pre-installed like above and you need the ADFs to install the game to your hard drive)
• Vintage Is The New Old (formerly Commodore is Awesome) – general retrogaming resource with a heavy focus on all things Commodore; includes some downloadable Amiga games
• Amiga TOSEC – a free downloadable 37GB (yes 37GB!!!) archive containing multiple sources of nearly every Amiga game, demo, programme and cover disk ever made (excludes Workbench disks and Kickstart ROMs)
• EmuParadise – huge catalogue of classic games, including downloadable Amiga ADFs and CD32 disk images
• Planet Emulation – a French site hosting a large number of Amiga games

General:

• Lemon Amiga – general Amiga resource, includes a database of games and links to where you can download
• Hall of Light – Amiga game database
• English Amiga Board – English-language Amiga forums
• Amiga.org – Amiga portal, news site and forums
• aminet – Amiga software repository

Understanding Amiga display characteristics/modes:

• Amiga screen modes – a useful guide by the Amiga Graphics Archive
• Display Sizes, Offsets, and Clipping – an informative Retroplatform discussion on Amiga overscan and how CRT TVs work
• Effect of Display Overscan on the Viewing Area – from the AmigaOS 3.5 developer docs
• Correct Amiga Aspect Ratio – an article on configuring CRT displays for Amigas

Amiga Forever 8
Features : 9/10
Ease Of Use : 9/10
Value : 6/10
Support : 8/10
Total: 32 out 40

WinUAE

Features : 8/10
Ease Of Use : 8/10
Value : 9/10
Support : 8/10
Total: 33 out 40

SAE
Features : 6/10
Ease Of Use : 7/10
Value : 9/10
Support : 7/10
Total: 29 out 40