Amiga Emulator FAQ

Updated 5 May 2023

Amiga Emulator Downloads

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1. Emulator Programs

2. Amiga Forever DVD or Online Edition

Amiga Forever is a complete Amiga emulation package for DOS, Windows, Mac, Linux or Android systems which includes the files
needed to run AmigaOS, applications and games and comes in the following Editions:

The cheapest is the Value Edition for as little as 9.95 EUR and 95 MB, which includes Kickstart and Workbench 1.3 and 3.x,
an easy setup menu system, KX Light, Gallery, Amiga Explorer, Personal Paint and the Windows Emulator program.

Next up is the Plus Edition , 29.95 EUR, which includes all the Kickstarts and Workbenchs, plus 100s of games and demos and gallery to try, KX Light and a bootable Plus CD.

Finally, the Premium DVD (49.95 EUR) version also includes some popular Amiga Software, a complete Workbench hard disk setup including latest Kickstart, Workbench 3.9, PPaint, MPEG videos of Jay Miner's speech, Commodore launch and the Deathbed Vigil (last days of Commodore), Amiga Explorer network program plus 100s of games and demos to try.

To check it out and get your copy visit Amiga Forever. For a local store visit AmigaKit (UK), AmigaKit (US) AmigaKit (EU), and Cloanto (Italy)

History of the Amiga video was donated to Cloanto by myself from a 1992 video by Devware Inc.

3. Workbench Install disk

4. Disk Copying, Installing and Network transfer software

• Download ADF Blitzer program for reading and writing ADF images using a graphical frontend.
  
• Download ADFRead from Winuae.net for copying Amiga disks to PC disks using Windows NT/2000/XP.
  
• To transfer files, between PC/Mac/Amiga, try the Easy ADF with a PCMCIA Adapter from Amikit.
  
• Download Cloanto's Amiga Explorer for network transfer between PC and Amiga. No software is required on the Amiga side.
  
• Download Disk2FDI program which will read Amiga Disks and write it to a FDI format image for use with Winuae.
  (Two floppy drives required).
  
• Download NComm or Term terminal emulators for Amiga file transfers over serial network.
  
• Download MSH to read and write PC disks on your Amiga (Workbench 2).
  
• Download WarTrans for network which works with AmigaBasic and a terminal program on the PC side.
  
• Download WHDLoad for installating games and programs from floppy disk to hard disk.
  
• Download RunADF for running OCS/ECS game on AmigaOS 4.
  
• Download WHDLoad to UAE tool for running games from AmigaOS 4.
  
• Download glUAE to run classic Amiga software on AmigaOS 4.
  
• Download EasyUAE to provide a useful GUI frontend for E-UAE on AmigaOS 4.
  
• Download RunInUAE for another GUI frontend for E-UAE on AmigaOS 4.

5. Software for Amiga

• Aminet (Ger.), Aminet US and OS4Depot have the biggest collection of software which includes loads of utilities, demos, drivers, pictures, MODs and games which are freely available. You will need the LHA program from the util/arc folder to extract the archives.
  
• Software Package Add ons. There are loads of dedicated web sites with games, utilities and other files to run on your Amiga. For add on software for Winuae visit Amikit , AfA or AmigaSYS. Also, try the Green Amiga Alien Guide. For more Amiga sites visit my Misc Links.
  
• For Games, try Alinea, AmigaStore, EmuParadise, MyAbandonware, GamesCoffer, Amiga Land, AMI Sector One, HOL, Hyperion, Planet Emulation and S.P.S. Also, try Factor 5, Vulcan, Cinemaware, Sodan, Llamasoft and FreeCiv. More news and links at AmigaFlame and Amiga-News.
  
• Retailers. Visit Alinea, Amigakit, myAmigaShop, Fore-matt, PageStream, AirSoft, APC-TCP, Vesalia. More dealers can be found at AmigaWorld.
  
• Commerical and shareware software: SASG (MUI), DiscreetFX, Digital Universe, Hollywood, PPaint, Alinea (StormC, AmigaWriter, Pagestream, ArtEffect), CygnusEd, EasyADF, EasyNetPro, EAB Zone!.
  
• Web Browsers: AWeb, IBrowse, Netsurf (AmigaOS 4), Netsurf 68k, OWB, Odyssey, Timberwolf.
  
• Open Source/Free. There is plenty of open source or free amiga software. For example:YAM, JAmiga, Video Toaster, Basilisk II, AmIDE, EaglePlayer, Jabber, Scout, AmigaAMP, VBCC, MUI Base, Odyssey Web Browser, Github, etc
  
• Other Emulators. For Macintosh try Shapeshifter , Basilisk or Fusion. For 8 bit Commodore machines such as the Pet, Vic 20 and C64 try C64 Forever. For the ZX Spectrum try ZXAM etc. For other platforms try MAME. For PC try PC-Task, PCx or DOS Box.
  
• Development. Amiga Developer CD, VBCC, Hollywood and Amiga OS 4 SDK files.
  
• Amiga Unix. Amiga UNIX, Linux/m68k, Linux Apus (PPC), NetBSD, Minix, Debian, AmiCgynix.
• Other operating systems: Morphos, Apollo OS, ProDAD p.OS.
  

6. Hardware for Amiga/PC

	Catweasel Mk 4 Plus Floppy controller for PC to read/write multiple disk formats including Amiga 880K/1760K disks. Amigakit
	MiniMig Amiga A500 type computer with 68000, Kick rom, MMC card, VGA slot, Mouse/Joystick ports. Vesalia or ACube Systems
	Sam 460cr Amiga Sam computer with PowerPC 460EX, 3 PCI expansion slots, 7 USB, GB ethernet, 4 boot media etc ACube Systems
	A-Eon X1000 Nemo Amiga X1000 motherboard with PA Semi Dual-core PA6T-1682M, PowerISA, 4x RAM slots, 10 USB 2, PCIe, GB network, RS232, SATA. A-EON
	A-Eon X5000 Cyrus+ Amiga X5000 computer with 64 bit PowerPC dual-core 2.00 GHz CPU. A-EON or A-Eon on Facebook X5000 information X5000 resellers
	A-Eon A1222 Plus Amiga A1222 1.3 motherboard with QorIQ P1022 PPC dual-core processor, 8GB 64 bit DDR3 SODIMM, RS232, x4 and x16 PCIe, 2 x SATA 2.6 controllers, HDMI 1.3 ,2 x USB, 2 x Ethernet, I2S Digital Audio, DVI, GOPOs, Micro SD for ROM. Blogspot preview of A1222 A-Eon on Facebook Trevor's Blog Due: tba
	PiStorm Accelerator Raspberry Pi processor accelerator for Amiga 500, 600, 1200, and can be used with Amikit to run AmigaOS! AmigaKit

New Amigas (Power PC and AmigaOS 4.1)

• Sam 440, 460ex, 460ep, and 460cr from AmigaKit or ACube Systems.
  
• AmigaOne X1000, X5000, A1222 from A-Eon.

7. Archivers for Amiga/PC

• Download MUIUnArc (requires MUI) for Archiving needs on Amiga.
  
• Download lha for lha and lzh archives on Amiga (self-extracting).
  
• Download DMS for diskmasher images on Amiga (self-extracting).
  
• Download lzx for lzx archives on Amiga.
  
• Download Archivers for Amiga for other formats.
  
• Download 7-Zip for PC or Amiga to unarchive ZIP, LHA, LZX, GZIP etc archives.
  
• Download UnRAR for RAR files on Amiga.
• Download ZunZip for ZIP files on Amiga OS4.
• Download Zip and Unzip for Amiga.
  
• Download Stuffit Deluxe or Expander for Macs or PCs.

8. Languages and other files for Amiga Emulator (any version)

• gb2 Keyboard file for Winuae.
  
• Pure Basic interpreter.
  
• AmiBlitz or AmiBlitz3 compiler.
  
• Ace Basic from Aminet.
• Perl 5.8.5 from OS4depot.
• Python from Aminet.
• VBCC from Aminet
  

9. Information, documentation and other things

• Amiga History from 1982 to present day.
• For hardware information, see the Big Book of Amiga Hardware, Amiga Schematics.
  
• For game information, see the Obligement, Hall of Light, LemonAmiga and the Amiga Games that Weren't database.
  
• For old software, see DPaint history.
• Old Amiga firms: Eyetech, Gold Disk Inc, Hisoft Systems, NewTek, Scala, Softwood.
• For Amiga OS 4.1 FAQ, see My AmigaOS 4.1 FAQ .
• For Amiga OS 3.9 FAQ, see Official AmigaOS 3.9 FAQ .
• For Amiga OS 3.5 FAQ, see Unofficial AmigaOS 3.5 FAQ.
• For Amiga OS 3.2 FAQ, see AmigaOS 3.2 F.A.Q.
  
• For Amiga history and famous uses, see Famous Amiga Uses.
  
• For Amiga Music collections see Amiga Music Collection.
  
• For Fun stuff, try ChipTune website.
  
• For Amiga development, see my Programming page.
  
• For hardware and repair, see manuals from Devili.iki.fi.
  
• For Amiga Magazines, see Commodore (Amiga) magazine, Amiga Future archives.
  
• For Magazine coverdisks, see Amiga Format disks.
  
• For manuals, see Commodore Amiga Manuals.
• Access to archived web pages: Freiburg Linux UAE, Amiga University.
• Videos, see See latest Viva Amiga Extended Remix video on Vimeo.com.
• Books and video, See David Pleasance's 'Commodore, the Inside Story'.
  

10. Installation Instructions

• Amikit Installation Step by Step
• Winuae Installation Step by Step
• Workbench Installation F.A.Q.
• Application and Driver Installation F.A.Q.

11. Linux and Macintosh FAQs

• Winuae and Wine F.A.Q.
  
• Macintosh FS-UAE Launcher F.A.Q.
• Linux FS-UAE Launcher F.A.Q.
  
• Windows FS-UAE Launcher F.A.Q

12. Winuae, Amiga Explorer FAQs

• Winuae Configuration F.A.Q.
  
• Winuae Disk Images, ROMs, and File Transfer F.A.Q.
  
• Winuae Interface F.A.Q.
  
• Amiga Explorer F.A.Q.

13. AmigaOS Reference information

• Workbench 1.3
  • Menus
  • Preferences
  • Workbench disk
  • Extras disk
• Workbench 2.1
  • Menus
  • Preferences
  • Workbench disk
  • Extras, Install disk etc
• Workbench 3.1
  • Menus
  • Preferences
  • Workbench disk
  • Extras, Install disk etc
• Workbench 4.1 FE
  • Menus
  • Preferences
  • Workbench, Boot disk
• AmigaDOS Command List
  
• AmigaDOS Error Codes
• AmigaBasic Reference
• Arexx Reference
• GuruMeditation Codes
• Workbench F.A.Q.

14. Commodore PET, VIC 20, C64 etc

• C64 Forever F.A.Q.
• Commodore PET Wiki
• CBM-II Wiki
• VIC 20 Wiki
• C64 Wiki
• C128 Wiki
• C16 Wiki
• Plus/4 Wiki
  

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