Comments on: The Commodore Amiga

By: madcrow

madcrow — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:32:23 +0000

UAE proper may have "died off" but WinUAE (which you actually linked to) continues to move forward adding new capabilities all the time. Heck, WinUAE 2.0.2 was just released in February. Modern builds of WinUAE can emulate far more than the simple A500: they can emulate massive powerful 68060-enhanced A4000s with RTG graphics and (with a special driver called QuarkTex running on top of AmigaOS) even a 3D card. And of course, these emulators now run faster than even the beefy systems that people emulate with them ever did. If anyone's interested in playing with Amiga, the best way to do so is to buy a package called Amiga Forever: it bundles WinUAE with legally licensed copies of the Amiga OS and ROMSs.

By: Neozeed

Neozeed — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:52:12 +0000

Sadly my Amiga 3000 didn't survive the move... somehow it ended up uninsured. :(

I wanted to run that AMIX on it, but I know I'd need more ram... And who on earth knows where to score zip ram from??

There were a few cool Mac emulators back in the day too, I remember one where you'd put the Mac roms into a cartridge, plug it in the back, and away we go....

And if I remember it ran quicker then a physical MAC...

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:51:32 +0000

I had an Amiga 3000 back in 1991 and ran Windows 3.0 emulated on it. It was barely usable, but worked about as well as a very slow 286. What the Amiga excelled at was emulating other 68K machines like the Mac and Atari ST and regularly ran Quicken in the Mac emulator mode. Now, like the rest of the old Amiga fans, we run Amiga Forever on Windows machines. Surprisingly, the emulation of the Amiga and the custom graphics and sound (paula) still have issues running all of the apps. Not certain if it is tricks developers used or what causes it, but there is still room for improvement.