Amiga

edited August 2011 in Chit chat
Anyone able to point me in the direction of an Amiga emulator?

Can't seem to get one that works for me :confused:
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  • edited August 2011
    http://www.winuae.net/

    best one and works, harder to set up and use than say speccy, snes or megadrive emus tho
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited August 2011
    http://www.winuae.net/

    best one and works, harder to set up and use than say speccy, snes or megadrive emus tho

    yeah that's the one that is giving me gyp - any tips?
  • edited August 2011
    I found Amiga emulators to be a real pain. Not only are they hard to set up etc, but finding disc images that actually work is tough too. One important thing to point out though is that you will need to download the Kickstart ROMS before any Amiga emulator will work ;-)
  • edited August 2011
    not used it for ages tbh

    you need a bios rom tho and need to point to it in the settings before you can actually use it
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited August 2011
    ah haaaaa

    right - they so didn't mention that lol

    cheers guys - any handy tips you can think of much appreciated cos this seems to be a bugger to get going (were Amiga's especially weird or something?) and I fancy a go on Eye of the Beholder II...
  • edited August 2011
    Wookiee wrote: »
    ah haaaaa

    right - they so didn't mention that lol

    cheers guys - any handy tips you can think of much appreciated cos this seems to be a bugger to get going (were Amiga's especially weird or something?) and I fancy a go on Eye of the Beholder II...
    not weird but they were commodore machines, always a bit more awkward than other machines :P
    i find the 64 more awkward than speccy , snes, megadrive emus too
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited August 2011
    never a fan of the C64 but got fond memories of playing on mate's Amigas and messing about with animations
  • fogfog
    edited August 2011
    winvice is a nice emu...just attach disk.. view it .. click on a file .. done



    c64 has more "soul" than the miggy...

    point in question.. wizball

    miggy / st games looked nice , but played like crap a lot of the time..with some exceptions.
  • edited August 2011
    I'm told amiga in a box should sort me out - fingers crossed
  • Make sure you have the right kickstart rom.

    For an Amiga 1200 you need kickstart rom 3.1.
    Select 68020 for the processor.
    2mb fast memory and 2mb slow memory
  • edited August 2011
    cheers man - wading through readme type files at the moment
  • edited August 2011
    cheers have managed to get the thing working a bit - but only very crudely, and waaaay too much virtual disk swapping for my liking lol
  • edited August 2011
    Wookiee wrote: »
    cheers have managed to get the thing working a bit - but only very crudely, and waaaay too much virtual disk swapping for my liking lol

    Sorry if I'm pointing out the obvious, but you can add up to four (I think) virtual floppy drives. Takes away some of the strain. :wink:
  • edited August 2011
    I've said this a few times before, but I brought one of those DVD ROM sets on eBay for about ?15. It came on 8 dvd's and had full sets of MAME, SNES etc. One of the sets was for Amiga and all it's games are in "virtual hard disk" format. Not only do they all work (so far!), but because they are all hard drive format, there is none of that disc swopping rubbish either ;-)
  • edited August 2011
    Amiga emulation is unfortunately a bit unfriendly.

    You must seek these kickstarts on pirate sites.

    Then you must often try a lot of configuarations before the game eventually runs (kickstart version, memory, graphic card and so no)

    Then while playing you must change these virtual disks quite a lot.

    You never know if the game image you downloaded is okay and the game won't crash after let's say 20th level (most of Amiga game stuff in Internet are cracks and hacks of different quality)

    You don't have tutorials how to do things. I believe later Amigas worked with hard drives (no need to change disks) and you can emulate it but how to do this remains a bit mystery to me and I really searched for answers once.

    But still WinUAE is the best solution.
  • edited August 2011
    I have it working - though there are supposed to be 4 external disc drives recreated.....only the first one actually seems to read discs!

    Making use of their virtual Hard drive is deffo the way forward I agree - I need to figure out how to force it to boot to that not the disc load prompt and then how to "install" the virtual discs onto the virtual harddrive

    I'm convinced that there must be an easier way to have a quick blast on a few old faves lol
  • If you don't put a disc in the virtual drive, it will boot to the hard drive instead.
  • edited August 2011
    If you don't put a disc in the virtual drive, it will boot to the hard drive instead.

    sadly not for me it doesn't :evil:
  • edited August 2011
    Wookiee wrote: »
    I'm convinced that there must be an easier way to have a quick blast on a few old faves lol
    yeah there is..............use a spectrum emulator, or snes, or gameboy or megadrive :)
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • edited August 2011
    If you do torrents then there's a Amiga History Complete 16 DVD set out there somewhere. Every game, every ROM, everything you'll ever need...
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • edited August 2011
    karingal wrote: »
    If you do torrents then there's a Amiga History Complete 16 DVD set out there somewhere. Every game, every ROM, everything you'll ever need...
    im currently doing an amiga torrent (5gb) its the largest one i found on the torrent sites i do
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • Here's a guide for setting up an Amiga 1200 on Winuae with a hard drive.

    http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/tutorial_1/1.php

    It really is quite easy. I managed it and i'm a complete technophobe.
    As for the disk drives, you can have 4 but most games will only recognize 2 at most and some only 1.

    And don't forgot to save your configuration after. You can then set up a configuration for the Amiga 500.
  • edited August 2011
    yeah there is..............use a spectrum emulator, or snes, or gameboy or megadrive :)

    Yeah very true!

    I've got the 4 drives working ok now - can't get it to save my game yet but I'm working on it.....and have yet to reach for a hammer

    Rebel - thanks man that looks like it might be handy
  • edited August 2011
    Problem with amiga emulation for anyone not familiar with the machines was commodore released so many revisions on their model motherboards,which made it incompatible with older games,every amiga game released is a good guide to what settings you should use in winuae-

    http://eager.back2roots.org/

    if you have the cash give amiga forever a try- http://www.amigaforever.com/
  • edited August 2011
    Everyone - thanks for the pointers, I think I've cracked it now and seem to have the hard drive A1200 running as it should

    Well, at least right up until the ROMs let it down anyway but that's not insurmountable
  • Wookiee, you mentioned Eye of the Beholder II. If you like those type of games on the Amiga I suggest you give Captive or Hired Guns a go too if haven't before.

    Both excellent, though with a futuristic, rather than fantasy, setting.
  • edited August 2011
    Wookiee, you mentioned Eye of the Beholder II. If you like those type of games on the Amiga I suggest you give Captive or Hired Guns a go too if haven't before.

    Both excellent, though with a futuristic, rather than fantasy, setting.

    Dude - EOB, EOBII and Hired guns were the reason I wanted an Amiga emulator in the first place lol

    4 player deathmatch on Lemming Wars 2 was awesome fun (just a gentlemans agreement not to mess with the lemmings, just stay in that top area and kill each other.....again and again and again :D)
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