Amiga Emulator ?

SeantheMan

Hey lads, this seemed like the most knowledgable section regarding this subject:p

Does anyone know of any emulators or anything that are available which emulate the old amiga...600 i think it was. The one with the keyboard and joystick..and all those old retro games

Cant remember all teh games...but it took floppys anyways

Anyone help me out on the model and an emulator ?:rolleyes:

TechnoFreek

You will need winaue (emulator) and the kickstart files (basically a bios file i think).

Winuae is readily available on the net but you might need to do a bit of googling to find the kickstart roms as there are not distributed freely around the net.

Once you have winuae up and running, you might consider installing an app called Lemonade.
It acts as a winuae front end. It provides a nice library style access to all your games.
Might not be to everyone's tastes though, depending on preferences.

2 good amiga sites to get you up to speed:

www.lemonamiga.com check out the forums for emulator help
http://hol.abime.net/ log of all amiga games released includes screenshots etc

Please note that these sites do not host any files - information purposes only!

LoGiE

There's no need to go running off to another site you can get all the help you need here

1.) Head to www.wineuae.net Download WinUAE 1.4.2 and install

2.) Next grab the lemonade frontend at http://www.lemonamiga.com/lemonade/
and insatll it.

3.) Google the amiga Kick start roms or use Bit torrent (There's Loads of them)
Kickstart 1.3 is an A500, 2.05 is an A600 and 3.1 is an A1200

4.)Google some games! They come in the .adf file format but are usually zipped.

5.)Start Lemoade and fill in the the locations for the files it looks for

6.)Either let Lemonade scan your HD for your games or mannualy browse for then were it says DF0:

7.) Hit the start emulator button!

Any questions just ask

pickarooney

Any Amiga emulators for Linux out there? Or will I have to use a Windows emulator to then emulate the Amiga?

Edit: Heh, found one in 12 seconds
Ooh, just thinking about Cannon Fodder....

LoGiE

pickarooney wrote:

Any Amiga emulators for Linux out there? Or will I have to use a Windows emulator to then emulate the Amiga?

Edit: Heh, found one in 12 seconds
Ooh, just thinking about Cannon Fodder....

Yep there's a UAE for linux too

Cannon fodder
Alien Breed
Dune 2
IK+

Must have games imo.

homah_7ft

Mmmm would love a go off Syndicate again.

Jerichoholic

I almost went insane trying to configure the WinUAE with the hard drive loader. I didn't succeed and I will NEVER try again, it simply made me very angry, that's all.

SeantheMan

Thanks lads

LoGiE

No problem! Any other difficulties just post. Amiga emualtion is far easier to configure then it used to be but it can still be daunting at first.

hamster

Jerichoholic wrote:

I almost went insane trying to configure the WinUAE with the hard drive loader. I didn't succeed and I will NEVER try again, it simply made me very angry, that's all.

Don't give up Jerichoholic, most Amiga games worked on the basic Amiga 500 (and definitely 99% when with the full 1Mb). Any AGA games were for the A1200 (2Mb) - just pick the common configuration.
As Logie mentions you can also use Lemonade's frontend. The Amiga was a fantastic piece of kit back then. I'm on a dosbox run right now, but will get back to miggie soon!

DJ_Spider

I had a A1200, A500+ and a A4000. I eventually went over to 'The Darkside' and got my first PC. It was a 486DX 2/66 iirc! I wanted to play the old Amiga games and started looking for ways to do it.

A few people told me about the UAE, but some said the letters meant Useless Amiga Emulator! I never actually got round to trying it out, but a few years ago bought a CD from eBay with the MIME32 program and (allegidly) lots of ROMs. There are a few games that were on the 'Miggy so have managed to recapture my yoof! (I'm 41 now!)

I only have 3 games on my laptop now, Mechwarrior 3, Red Faction 2, and C&C Red Alert 2. My hund en eaye co-ordination is ****e! Anyway nice to see the 'Miggy is still alive and just remember the Creature Comforts, Morph, Wallace & Grommit, Angry Kid etc were originally done with a 'Miggy!

hamster

DJ_Spider wrote:

I had a A1200, A500+ and a A4000. I eventually went over to 'The Darkside' and got my first PC. It was a 486DX 2/66 iirc!

Cool... interesting. Going off track for a sec.What kind of 486DX2/66 system did you plummet for back then? Off hand I remember mine was in June 1993.
It was "cheap" clone bought in from the UK from a short-lived crowd called Reeves PC. It came with 4Mb (bumped to 8Mb for another IR £250). The hard drive was a seagate (250Mb drive) which formatted to 240Mb. The videocard was a 1Mb Tseng ET4000 plugged in a vesa local bus slot which pretty good for Dos as I found out later (ie Doom) at 320x200. SVGA was pretty damn slow - cpu bound but looked nice. Windows 3.1 was ok at 1024x768 but looked small on the 15" Goldstar monitor. The 8x1Mb ram took all simms slots so upgrading was pretty limited. There was an ISA slot used by a hard-drive card controller for the hard drive itself. I must admit the inards was a mess by today's standards (or any since 1996 infact!). Price was £1850 sterling... and only had the machine for 2 years before a 16Mb P120 took it's spot.
I nearly went for an A1200 before going the PC route.

djsim

Never really played the Amiga. If you where to name the best games on the system, what would they be???? Give them a go laters

Retr0gamer

Off the top of my head:

Apidya, Cannon Fodder, Silly Putty, Syndicate, Alien Breed games.

hamster

pinball fantasies, pinball dreams, flashback, gods, speedball 2, sensible soccer.... oh so many classics....

for the more slower paced....
Eye of the beholder I & II, Monkey Island I & II, Hired Guns....

daedalus2097

Ooh, the Monkey Islands are up there! Sensible World of Soccer (Even had Bray Wanderers in it!!), Cannon Fodder, and to this day I still play Worms: The Director's Cut, one of the last games ever released from an original software house for the Amiga. Comes out at parties and the likes, absolutely legend stuff!!

daedalus2097

Can I add to that:
Frontier: Elite II
The Settlers
Megalomania
Syndicate (and the mission disk American Revolt) was cracking!

And then for the more "modern" Amigas (will either require graphics card emulation or won't work at all under UAE):
Foundation
Wipeout 2097
Descent: Freespace

daedalus2097

hamster wrote:

I nearly went for an A1200 before going the PC route.

An A1200 (heavily upgraded of course) was my main computer right up until an AMD XP2000 took over in around 2003... Worked fine for my internet, mail, music, CD burning, photo editing, and still does this from time to time today

LoGiE

Wow that is dedication to the Amiga! I was well PC'd up by 2003

Some more forgotten Amiga classics that haven't been mentioned....

Moon Stone (A CLASSIC! game)
Jim Power
Lotus Espirt 2 (Fantastic tunes)
Lemmings 1 & 2 (Before they stupidly went 3d)
Supremacy (Old but still a great game)
Hunter (First game I'd ever seen like it. Massive 3d world way before GTA)
James Pond:Robocod (Shameless advertising a chocolate bar)
North & South (Brilliant in two player)
Night shift - from lucas arts ( I may be alone in loving this game!)
Turrican 2 (nuff said)
Zee Wolf (Similar graphics to Virus! but a nice game)

Hellrazer

LoGiE wrote:

There's no need to go running off to another site you can get all the help you need here

1.) Head to www.wineuae.net Download WinUAE 1.4.2 and install

2.) Next grab the lemonade frontend at http://www.lemonamiga.com/lemonade/
and insatll it.

3.) Google the amiga Kick start roms or use Bit torrent (There's Loads of them)
Kickstart 1.3 is an A500, 2.05 is an A600 and 3.1 is an A1200

4.)Google some games! They come in the .adf file format but are usually zipped.

5.)Start Lemoade and fill in the the locations for the files it looks for

6.)Either let Lemonade scan your HD for your games or mannualy browse for then were it says DF0:

7.) Hit the start emulator button!

Any questions just ask

Just saw this thread--Question for you Logie--When you do obtain the kickstart roms-where do I put them??And will Lemonade automatically select the correct one to use for each game?
Thanks
Richie

daedalus2097

LoGiE wrote:

Wow that is dedication to the Amiga! I was well PC'd up by 2003

In fairness it was pretty maxed out so didn't have a major problem doing all my college and graphics stuff, the PC was only really needed for things like DVD burning and video work...

Some more forgotten Amiga classics that haven't been mentioned....

Moon Stone (A CLASSIC! game)
Lemmings 1 & 2 (Before they stupidly went 3d)
Hunter (First game I'd ever seen like it. Massive 3d world way before GTA)
James Pond:Robocod (Shameless advertising a chocolate bar)
Turrican 2 (nuff said)
Zee Wolf (Similar graphics to Virus! but a nice game)

Yeah, every one of those games cost me days, weeks or months! Especially Zeewolf, couldn't get enough of it for months!

daedalus2097

Hellrazer wrote:

Just saw this thread--Question for you Logie--When you do obtain the kickstart roms-where do I put them??And will Lemonade automatically select the correct one to use for each game?
Thanks
Richie

I've never used Lemonade, but in WinUAE you just put them wherever you want (I made a folder within the WinUAE folder for them), and select them with a standard file requestor... You have to choose which ROMs you want, but basically you can just set up profiles for each ROM and configuration, and then just choose that when you want to run it.

logic

I used Winfellow before. Never had a problem with it and its quiet easy to use.

http://fellow.sourceforge.net/new_version/index.php

Hellrazer

One more stupid question??

How in hell do I run multidisk games??Every time it gets to the "insert disk X" I cant get the next disk to load.

daedalus2097

Hellrazer wrote:

One more stupid question??

How in hell do I run multidisk games??Every time it gets to the "insert disk X" I cant get the next disk to load.

Press F12 on the PC keyboard and it gives you a number of things you can change while it runs - one of these is the .adf image which is in each virtual drive. Or you can start it with all four virtual drives loaded with different disk images of the game (once there aren't more than 4 of course") and this will work for most games, though some only like using DF0:

hamster

Once you play with it a bit Hellrazer, you'll be familar with it. Later on you should try installing the workbench 3.1 (look up the Green Alien guide) . Once you got your favorite game going you can save the configuration - right down to the clicks of the sound of floppy disk.

daedalus2097

I'm willing to offer anyone help setting it up, creating useable Workbench installations and so on - once I have some free time Oh, and I work for beer

DJ_Spider

If you do a search for MAME32 you can download ROMS. I have a CD with over 2000 games on it I got form ebay a few years ago. A few games are from the Miggy. Terminator was good, Elite, Ruff n Tumble, Alien, Worms, Lotus Elite, and the best was Turrican 2 of course. BTW I have Motorola V360 has a version of worms called crazy. Same as worms but with moles! I also have Worms 2 on my PC just like the original. (but no cheats for the banana bombs!)

daedalus2097

Hehe, banana bombs Yeah, Worms: Director's Cut on the Miggy still comes out for me sometimes, tis class, and IMHO the best version for pure gameplay. Priceless ming vases, postal strikes and mad cows, yay!

KeredDrachir

How can I get Win UAE to recognise my USB joystick? It seems to only look for COM ports. I know I got it working once but I'm pulling my hair out trying to remember how.
Most of the really good game require a joystick, at least the once where you use the mouse can only entertain for so long.

LoGiE

Firstly make sure your using the latest version of WinUAE and your USB is installed in windows correctly. It should then be available from the drop down menu in gameports. I use a wingman USB joypad thats years old without any problems.

KeredDrachir

Thanks. It's a bit late but I'll try and download it. I must admit the version I'm using is one a friend installed for me about 15 years ago.

jimi_t

Are there any standout Amiga titles that weren't out for PC or were emulated adequately on the consoles? I can't think of a single one atm

LoGiE

A lot of the time the Amiga version was better then the pc version! Took a while for the pc to get going

97i9y3941

Ah the good old amiga i still play my A1200/CD32 to this day,anyways as for hardrive installations you would only need them for workbench stuff or if few any amiga hardrive installable games *piracy was rifte on the amiga so they didnt bother with hardrive installation most times*,my own fave amiga games-

Lotus challenge
Supercars
Cannon fodder*way better than the snes/md ports
Desert strike*another one thats better than console ports
Banshee *an defo overlooked 2D shooter,but cd32 version gets good price on ebay

Sensible soccer
Body blows
Chaos engine
Super stardust

KeredDrachir

Some of the Amiga games I play I can play on the PC. Lotus Turbo Challange II I can't get for the PC. Only version I which isn't as good. Populous I doesn't have the sound and doesn't let you skip the levels you've already done in Conquest mode on the version I've got. Prehistroik I downloaded yesterday for the PC but it's not neraly the same with out the background sound.
If anyone know how to get these for the PC but the way they were on the Amiga, that would be fine.
I also have a Spectrum Emulator but that doesn't work unless your using 256 colours and most computers today don't got below 16 bit.

97i9y3941

KeredDrachir wrote: »

Some of the Amiga games I play I can play on the PC. Lotus Turbo Challange II I can't get for the PC. Only version I which isn't as good. Populous I doesn't have the sound and doesn't let you skip the levels you've already done in Conquest mode on the version I've got. Prehistroik I downloaded yesterday for the PC but it's not neraly the same with out the background sound.
If anyone know how to get these for the PC but the way they were on the Amiga, that would be fine.
I also have a Spectrum Emulator but that doesn't work unless your using 256 colours and most computers today don't got below 16 bit.

i assume if you have an pc with a soundblaster card they would take use of it,an excellent spectrum emulator i use is zxspin,it works on my desktop color of 32bit,has fastloading option aswell for the cassette games...

KeredDrachir

Do you know what the extension to the files is, I've got about 3,000 on my disk so I'd like to be able to use those games. I find when downloading games for an emulator that the availability is very limited.

97i9y3941

the extensions are tzx for disk and tap for tape files doubt the real games would work unless you have emulator that reads from the spectrum through soundcard?,anyways world of spectrum website has games for legal download,click on archive and go to games,some games are not available due to licenceing reasons but can be found through a quick google search

LoGiE

What spectrum emulator are you using? Take a look at http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
I'm proudly sporting the Lotus II intro music as my phone ring tone. It's always funny when it goes off on the dart as one person takes there face out of there book and gives a nod of approval