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 ;-)
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...
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
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 ;-)
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.
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
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.
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-
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.
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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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?
you need a bios rom tho and need to point to it in the settings before you can actually use it
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...
i find the 64 more awkward than speccy , snes, megadrive emus too
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.
For an Amiga 1200 you need kickstart rom 3.1.
Select 68020 for the processor.
2mb fast memory and 2mb slow memory
www.racketboy.com/retro/emulation/2007/08/commodore-amiga-emulation-on-windows-pc-winuae.html
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:
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.
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
sadly not for me it doesn't :evil:
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.
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
http://eager.back2roots.org/
if you have the cash give amiga forever a try- http://www.amigaforever.com/
Well, at least right up until the ROMs let it down anyway but that's not insurmountable
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)