3.1 (Amiga Forever) Linux?

[AmigaFreak]

Hi guys,

I've been trying to get 3.1 running in E-UAE on Linux, as sort of a x86 Amiga. (It's an old PC). However E-UAE is giving me goofy screen problems. I'm in the US so of course I'm NTSC, but sometimes I get odd colors or screen settings when I choose NTSC when using my Amiga Forever ROMS and OS installs. Are the ROMs and OS installs from Amiga Forever made for PAL? What do I do to fix this? I tend to get weird green colored workbenches, low resolutions in E-UAE, I'm not sure what's going on.

Help!

[slaapliedje]

I would use FS-UAE, much newer code.  But that's really odd, depending on which version of kickstart you're using, the NTSC vs PAL shouldn't matter.  Though it may on the older versions.  Personally, I'd probably always just run in PAL, I do on my physical A4000, simply because 90% of all the Amiga games use PAL over NTSC.  

Which version of Linux are you running?

slaapliedje

[AmigaFreak]

I'm running Debian "Wheezy" 7 at the moment.

[slaapliedje]

Just enable backports, then install fs-uae through there.

To enable the backports, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add

# wheezy backports
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main non-free contrib

Then run 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install -t wheezy-backports fs-uae fs-uae-launcher fs-uae-netplay-server', the last one obviously is for the netplay server, I haven't used this myself.  Probably isn't required if you don't plan on using it.

Hopefully you have some better luck with it.  I know E-UAE hasn't been developed on for years though.

slaapliedje

[AmigaFreak]

I finally got around to installing/trying FS-UAE, and it fixed the strange video problems that EUAE had. No more green workbench desktops and low screen resolutions. That includes both PAL and NTSC. So the problem had been EUAE, though I'm not sure why.

[slaapliedje]

Great to hear.  Yeah, E-UAE just has really not been updated for many many moons.  FS-UAE is built on the more recent WinUAE core, if I recall correctly.

slaapliedje

[FrodeSolheim]

Yes, FS-UAE is based on the emulation code from WinUAE 2.5.1. This applies to FS-UAE 2.2 and the upcoming new FS-UAE 2.4.0 stable version.

Code from WinUAE 2.7.x is merged into the development branch of FS-UAE and will be relased in the upcoming FS-UAE 2.5.0dev released.

Edit: there's newer FS-UAE versions for Debian available here: http://fs-uae.net/download-beta