Have a look at our collection of official UAE sites.
Yes, if you have two floppy drives and the new Disk2FDI program
which will read Amiga Disks and write it to FDI format which is
compatible with WinUAE.
For the PC to read Amiga disks directly, extra hardware will need to be purchased
which can read (or write) Amiga disks easily. The ISA Catweasel floppy controller
can be used on the PC to read (or write) Amiga disks. Further information is
available from the web site at Individual Computers.
Finally, if these options are not feasible, why not buy a real Amiga second
hand for those occasions when you want to transfer files and you'll have access
to a real KS and WB for use on your main machine.
An ADF is an image of an Amiga disk, so that the long filenames,
comments, and flags are kept. The ADFs have to be copied to PC formatted disks
to be read on the Amiga. ADZ files are GZIP'd ADF files. You need GZIP.EXE
to access the original ADF files. Keeping them GZIP'd will save space and WinUAE
can extract them automatically.
LHA is the common file archive format on the Amiga, Aminet uses it a lot as
well as DMS (Disk Masher) which is a disk archive format. You can use DMS,
xDMS or ADFOpus to extract or convert DMS archives to ADF. You need LHA and
LZX programs to archive or unarchive files. For example, to unarchive a lha
file, type LHA X GAME.LHA to extract the files to the current directory.
To make an archive, type LHA A GAME.LHA GameDir/#? which will add
all files in GameDir to GAME.LHA. To list files, type LHA L GAME.LHA.
If using LHA on the PC with Amiga lha files, use the /ax options
to allow the files to be extracted properly. LZX is a newer faster and more
compact archiver than LHA and requires the LZX program to extract them. All
these unarchivers are available from Aminet. Try the W95 UnLZX program to extract
LZX files on your PC.
Amigas can also handle the common ZIP format using the ZIP and UNZIP commands
(equivalent to PKZIP and PKUNZIP on the PC). The Amiga version of the unix
GZIP format can handle .Z and .ADZ files.
You can download all the Amiga (de)archivers from here: Amiga Archivers for
use within WinUAE or try X-Arc from Aminet for
use in Workbench.
Yes, that is possible. You can either specify a directory on
the PC's hard disk e.g. C:\UAE\AmigaHD or you can specify a hard file. The
advantage of a directory is that you can copy files directly from the PC site
into the directory for immediate access by the Emulator. For hard
files you can use the Amiga's long filenames, file comments and protection
flags. For a hard disk to be bootable, make sure you copy the whole
Workbench disk including hidden directories. Some programs work better with
Hard Files than directories.
For more information see Hard disk setup.
WinUAE 0.8.22 or later can read Amiga Formatted hard disks directly via the
Hard Drives tab on WinUAE. Click on Add Harddrive and it
will list any connected Amiga harddrives or any empty harddrive space to add
to WinUAE. On older emulators, you could only access hard
disks via the AFFS file system on Linux or a third party program such as ADFOpus.
If using Workbench 1.3, it is now possible to use HardFiles if you copy the
FastFileSystem file to the WinUAE roms directory first (0.8.22r1 or later).
The HDF may not be recognised on bootup, in which case, boot off a WB2 or later
disk to format it, then WB1.3 can then see it.
Yes, Amiga CDs use the same filesystem for CDs as the PC i.e.
ISO9660 except that it uses the Rock Ridge extension for long filenames, PCS
use
a filesystem called Joliet for long filenames. CacheCDFS can read all these
formats.
There are two ways to access Amiga CD disks: insert the CD into
your CD drive, on the Hard Drive screen of WinUAE, click 'Add Directory'
and then enter the volume name of the CD and the drive letter of the CD-ROM
drive e.g. D: (without the slash). Use the Diskchange <device>
command in a Shell if you change CDs (type Info for list of devices).
With WinUAE 0.8.21 or later you can install the CacheCDFS CDROM
drivers from either AmigaOS3.9 CD or a third party driver such as
AmiCDFS. You need to enable uaescsi.device on the Misc tab before starting
WinUAE and enable Logging to determine the Unit
numbers (see WinUAElog.txt file) for your CDROM drive. When you install the
drive make sure the device is uaescsi.device and the unit numbers
match the unit numbers in the log file.
Example if you have only an IDE controller:
0=Primary Master
1=Secondary Master
On Win9x/ME (with Adaptec ASPI which is installed by almost all CD burning software solutions) you can not use CD burning programs like MakeCD. When you use WinXP, it is best to switch off "Use ASPI Scsi Layer" the Misc settings page. Only activate it if you notice problems without it.
An emulator can not fully emulate everything on the Amiga as
it has to emulate the CPU and the Custom Chipset and all other special hardware.
The latest versions of WinUAE will try to use buffers for sound to improve
output and JIT for extra CPU speed, chipset graphics is improving but 256 colours
can be very slow due to the Amiga's bitmap system of using multiple layers.
Using Picasso96 emulation can improve graphics a lot, use that wherever possible.
Emulators are improved all the time, so keep an eye out for new versions. Sound
emulation can depend on your processor as well, turning it off will improve
emulation speed though.
It can not use the MMU on higher 680x0 processors. This means that programs
that require Memory Management such as Linux or Virtual Memory will not work
in WinUAE.
Go to the floppies tab and click the button "Create
Standard Floppy" for use in Workbench or use "Create Custom Floppy" for some
games to save files to.
For specific save game disks visit Back2Roots.
Press END key and either F1, F2, F3, F4 to do a disk change.
Using SHIFT+END and F1-F4 will eject the disk.
You can also press F12 for the setup screen and select Floppy to change the
disk while its running.
On WinUAE 0.8.17 or later you can now save the current state
by pressing F12, go to the Misc screen and click 'Save current state'
which will save the state as a .USS file. Use 'Load a save-state snapshot'
to load state file. You will need as much disk space as
memory allocated to the Amiga.
Unless you have access to a real Amiga, or have bought a Kickstart
and Workbench disks, there is no other legal way of getting the OS for your
emulation. The software is the property of Amiga Inc and only they can licence
it to companies. Cloanto, have a licence, to distribute Amiga Emulation with
Kickstart ROM files and Workbench images from CD or from their web site. The
CD also includes some popular Amiga Software, a complete Workbench hard disk
setup, MPEG videos of Jay Miner's speech and the Deathbed Vigil (last days
of Commodore), Amiga Explorer network program etc.You can also boot from the
CD direct into the Emulator without the need of a host OS using KX Light.
For easy access you can download the online version for as little as $20, you
get Kickstart and Workbench 1.3 and 3.0, PPaint 7.1, an easy setup menu system,
Amiga Explorer and the Emulation programs themselves. These would cost a lot
more if bought seperately. For beginners, it is ideal to set up an Amiga on
your PC within minutes than having to search the web for them and fiddle with
setups to get it to work!
To check it out and get your copy visit Amiga
Forever.
That is possible. You can through the PC's Internet connection by enabling the BSD socket library support feature on the MISC page of WinUAE configuration. Make sure you go on line before loading WinUAE.
You need ADFOpus or ADFView which will allow you to create and explore and manipulate the contents of Amiga Disk Format images easily. ADFOpus also features a DMS-ADF-ADZ image converter as well. Both tools can be found in our links section.
First make sure your UAE configuration matches the game's requirements.
Very old games depend on specific versions of Kickstart, processor and memory.
See Example Configurations for a list
of the most common Amiga configurations. If you still
have problems then download a patch from the Patch & HD
Installers Page or WHDLoad, which can
degrade the Amiga to such a state that the program will run correctly. You
will probably need to get the latest AmigaOS Installer from Aminet to
install these tools.
Also, try using Fellow or WinFellow as
an alternative emulator to run the game.
It is recommended that you download the latest version of WinUAE from the official homepage. This is especially important for users of AmigaForever 4, where the setup will crash.
You need to run older versions of WinUAE in Compatibility Mode. Find WinUAE.exe and select it, press right mouse button and select Properties, select Compatibility tab and change the Compatibility mode to Windows 98/Windows Me and tick 'Disable Windows themes'. WinUAE should now load.
Get Amiga In a Box from AIAB which includes Scalos (Workbench replacement), MUI 3.8, Picasso96, NewIcons, VisualPrefs, MCP, MUI tools and Screentab. There are addons for Music, Internet, Languages and Shapeshifter.
You need DirectX 8 or later installed. Run DXDiag.exe to see what version you have installed.
A chart of DirectX versions that ship with Windows:
| Windows Version | DirectX Version |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 7.0 |
| XP | 8.1 |
| XP SP2+ | 9.0c |
| Vista | 10 |
| Vista SP1+ | 10.1 |
Boot off your Workbench disk, insert a floppy disk in DF1:, open a command Shell and type Install DF1: which will copy the book block on to the disk. Then type MakeDir DF1:S to create the Script directory. Copy your program file(s) on the disk, preferably root or use directories if you wanted to. Then change directory to DF1:S and type Ed Startup-sequence and type in commands to load your program, usually just the name of the Program file will do. Test the disk, by inserting the disk into DF0: and Reboot the Amiga.
You can download UAEInstall.adf disk which has some AmigaDOS or Installer scripts to install Workbench for most Workbench versions including 1.3 to 3.1.
There is a Classic Amiga emulator for the AmigaOne that comes with AmigaOS 4. There is a PPC emulator for x86 systems from PearPC.