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Geek Culture / Amiga emulator

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Lampton Worm
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Posted: 6th Jan 2005 17:17
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Hi,

Can anyone recommend a good Amiga (500/600) emulator for Windows? Is there a reasonable set of games out there? I have a fair few originals on floppy, wonder if I can load 'em into the emulator.. hmm..

Cheers.
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Van B
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Posted: 6th Jan 2005 17:36
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WinUAE is the standard - however you'd be better off trying your local GAME for a CD that is packed with Amiga games and emulator stuff.


Van-B


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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 6th Jan 2005 17:51
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you can get an A1200 AGA in working condition (some new) with a Squirrel CD-Rom, cheaply. just need to track down some of these legendary Amiga forums where all the fantatical fans are.

i'd help but i lost the bookmark i had last time i reinstalled


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BealziBob
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Posted: 6th Jan 2005 18:02
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WinUAE is an excellent emulator, unfortunatly you need the appropriate kickstart ROMS (not distributed with WinUAE) to get it to emulate the various different types of AMIGA. These are still copyrighted and must be paid for unless you still own an AMIGA.

If you have the origonal games, you are legally entitled to download the roms for them (if you can find them). Transferring the discs onto your PC is not so easy, as the AMIGA had it's own Floppy format which PC's can't read. If you can get hold of an old amiga, there are utilities to make pc readable discs.

Drop me a line (email) if you want to know more.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 6th Jan 2005 18:09
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Quote: "Transferring the discs onto your PC is not so easy, as the AMIGA had it's own Floppy format which PC's can't read."


Well actually... there are a few ways around that. The format wasn't 'special' it just wasn't the LD/HD Format. Can't remember who came up with it but there are a few Disk Drives still capable of using DF, erm Format. They have jumpeds near the power selector. Also it is quite simple to interface the Serial Drive through a Standard Serial Port

Then there is that Windows Driver that allows it to view Amiga partitions, etc.. heh


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Lampton Worm
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Posted: 6th Jan 2005 19:54
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Cool. Yup I still own an Amiga, just one one now, A600. It was a sad day when I had to get rid of my x3 500's, one with a hard drive, external floppy and monitor curse my lack of space!

Still got my Spectrum +2A, and Acorn Electron, and the games.. oh and a ZX81. Just looking at the old cover disks/tapes gives me a nostalgia rush, happy days
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