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Amiga Emulator For Pc
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Close. Close. It is not only about WinUAE or FS-UAE. There is also available for Windows the Amiga Emulator Winfellow, which has been around for about 10 years, and it is just got a new version.Actually, two versions of the Windows-based Amiga emulator WinFellow 0.5.3 have been released.
My wife tells me that I’ve been overcompensating for my adolescent technolust now that I can actually afford some gadgets. I’m not arguing especially with my latest project: an Amiga laptop that gets about 10 hours of battery life. I wanted an Amiga so badly when I was younger. They were expensive though and I made do with my Commodore 64c. I’ve since owned 4 Amigas (A600, A1200, A2000 w/ Video Toaster and A4000T w/ Video Toaster), and still own 2 of them. When laptops became more attainable, I lusted for one as well finally buying on with my web development earnings in 1997.
So, I figured that there must be some way to combine two of my fixations into one sill creation: The Amibian Laptop. WARNING: Always properly shut down your Pi from the command line before powering off. SD Cards tend to corrupt when abruptly powered off while reading/writing. The commands are simple: “poweroff” (turns off the power) and “reboot” restarts the Pi. Note: I used Windows to prepare my SD card, the references to software below are based on this platform.
Linux,and Mac OS both have solutions that can be found with a little search engine effort. The Parts. (includes keyboard, 13″ display, touchpad, and interface for rpi).
I also recommend buying a pi-top speaker. Raspberry Pi 3 (Model 3 has the best performance and can be purchased from pi-top above or separately for less convenience and possibly a lower price). A heatsink for the Pi.
(It gets quite hot when emulating.). A good-sized micro-sd card. I like having a few around to experiment with new versions and make backups. 32-64 gigs will store every WHDLoad game and demo ever made with room to spare for MOD files and Deluxe Paint. A 1080p hdmi display (might work with other television resolutions, but I used a 1080p monitor more on this later). An Ethernet cable to copy software, games, music, etc. Once you’re set up.The Software.!
So far the most direct, lightweight, and best performing UAE image I’ve used. A way to extract the Amibian RAR file such as, or just use unrar for Linux. Software to write the image file to your micro sd on a, or system.
Kickstart ROMs. This is the “bios” (and part of the operating system) for Amiga computers. There are 2 ways to get these legally, both via Cloanto. I used the, which is a great product in and of itself (get the “plus” version at least to ensure you get all of the kickstart versions for WHDLoad).
Alternatively, you can buy the for Android and extract the ROM files for a little less money. I haven’t done it, so your mileage may vary.
Workbench 3.1 adf files. This is the operating system that we will install. ADF stands for Amiga Disk File. Workbench 3.0 will work too, but 3.1 has some nice refinements. Cloanto’s Amiga Forever Plus distribution includes Workbench 3.1 adf files.
Classic Workbench from Bloodwych. I recommend the UAE build available.The Process Assembly and Basic Set Up. Assemble your pi-top following the latest instructions provided. Of course, you don’t need a pi-top to make a modern Amiga emulation box, but c’mon IT’S AN AMIGA LAPTOP!!!. Boot into pi-top os using the provided micro-sd card. Make sure everything works.
Read the inside of the pi-top speaker box to install the software for the speaker. Make sure your audio is working in pi-top os (go to youtube or something) before you try setting it up for Amibian. Knowing your hardware is working beforehand might save you some time later. Using another computer, format your new, larger micro-sd card using SD Card Formatter (see software, above). Extract the Amibian image file downloaded in step 1 of The Software, above, using the unRAR software from step 3, above. Image your freshly formatted micro-sd card with the extracted image using the software from step 4 above.
Note: Windows users will probably not be able to mount the.img file, nor read the micro-sd card once you have imaged it. Windows will likely even tell you that it is corrupt. If you’ve followed these instructions, I’m 91.675% certain it’s not corrupt as you’ll see in a few steps. Linux users need not worry, but honestly, you’re probably used to doing things the hard way and will have a blast with this.
Insert the new Amibian-imaged micro-sd card into your pi-top (if you use the ethernet method below, connect an ether cable before powering on) and turn it on. You pi-top screen is going to look bad like “OMG, I just cooked this thing” bad. But, Amibian is just configured with a really incompatible screen mode by default. Here’s where that 1080p display comes in handy:. Disconnect the pi-top display from the raspberry pi board’s hdmi connector and plug in your HDMI 1080p display.
You should now see the uae4arm-rpi menu. Click “quit”. (Pro-tip: once you’ve quit UAE, you can restart from the shell by simply typing “exit” or just type “reboot” to reboot and UAE will start automatically, again. From the command line/shell prompt, use your favorite (cough-VI-cough) text editor to modify /boot/config.txt.
(If you don’t know how to use vi, which is built-in to this distribution, install “nano” with “apt-get install nano”. Open the file to edit by typing “nano /boot/config.txt”. Move around the file with the cursor keys.
Save and exit by pressing “ctrl-k”, then “x”. To cancel (exit without saving), press “ctrl-c”.). Add “hdmidrive=2” (without the quotes, of course). Change “hdmigroup=1” to “hdmigroup=2”.
Change “hdmimode=16” (or whatever it is by default, I don’t remember) to “hdmimode=81”. For more information on these settings check out. Save your changes. Type “reboot”. Your pi-top should reboot and be quite nice to look at now. Follow the instructions on the to get your system set up.
Check back in a little bit. I may post a summary of the steps needed to get WHDLoad configured to play almost every game and demo ever made for the Amiga. WHDLoad is already installed in Classic Workbench, but there’s some more work to do to get it working.
You can read about it, or check out Nostaligia Nerd’s quick video overview.It is likely that I missed a step or have a few typos. I completed this project over a few days and documented everything very late at night a few days after I finished. Please share your questions and suggestions in the comments below. Note that comments are moderated so yours may not show up immediately.
Thanks and good luck!