Amiga emulators

[*Ant*]

I'm a big fan of and still occasionly play my Amiga A600 games. I have seen an Amiga emulator disc for a pc full of games, but how do these things work, is it a case of putting the disc in the drive and away you go? :confused:

[Newt]

The usual way is to set up a porton of memory on the PC to 'be' an Amiga - or at least to look exactly like an Amiga to the games.

[*Ant*]

Is that as complicated as it sounds!

[chesters1]

i downloaded a spectrum emulator ,on installing it i was surprised to see it WAS a spectrum everything identicle to the real thing ,the games "roms" were exactly as they were ,the only downfall is that the Kempston joystick interface didnt recognise a pc joystick so it was back to the keyboard

[Newt]

Anthony - it is complicated but only for the PC since it does the hard parts for you and you probably won't even notice unless you have issues like chesters1 did.

 

For instance, if you run DOS program on XP, the program runs in a 'virtual DOS machine' that exists totally in memory and the program never even sees the PC but only the small VDM portion that looks like a DOS PC to the program. All you did was start~run or a click on the shortcut.

 

The emulation itself is near perfect but a protection feature of the NT systems (including XP) won't allow some of the fancy things programmers had to do to speed up game performance by making unusual demands on the hardware to do things it wasn't designed to do. NT does not allow any direct hardware calls by any software and the piece they use to trap the call, translate it, and send along the proper hardware call makes some older games not work properly on XP. Often nothing you can do about it although there are some tricks to try.

 

[ 13. August 2004, 10:48 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

[*Ant*]

Thanks Newt - I sort of follow, i'll look into it, cheers.

[Gazza_Wakey]

Hi Anthony been using an Amiga emulator on my XP pc for a while now and it works great, there are one or two out there and plenty of games as well

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/andrew.odish/emu.htm

for the emulators and the kickstart roms as well before you can play the games good luck and have fun

[*Ant*]

Great Gazza, loads and loads of thanks.

[*Ant*]

Gazza -excuse my ignorance but; do I need to download one of the emulators and one of the kickstarts (not sure which btw), and then find games from off the net?

 

I run XP and would like to play the old A600 games. if that helps.