WinUAE

[Gwion]

Hi is there a way to make my PC just run WinUAE. I want it to be like Amithlon. So i will turn on my PC and Just load straight to Workbench and not see any windows stuff.

[davideo]

The AmigaForever CD will autoboot on a PC and just load up Winue without the windows crap  :idea:

Dave G  8-)

[Gwion]

So could i just transfer the Amiga Forever files on2 a blank hardisk and it would load?

[davideo]

If you've got the original Forever CD why not just stick that in your PC and reboot into it?

There's one (2006 I think) on Fleabay at the minute for £12 + P&P

Dave G  8-)

[amigadave]

Actually, the booting from the Amiga Forever CD I think is into E-UAE running on top of Linux, not WinUAE on top of Windows, but it will get you running an emulated Amiga from boot on a PC, and that is what the original poster was after I think.

[Piru]

You could replace the explorer with WinUAE (there are several ways to do it, most require some registery tweaking).

You'd still see the windows loading up, however. If you really want to, you could replace the windows boot picture and do other cosmetic tuning aswell.

[adolescent]

I'd suggest not replacing the shell, just run it as a startup item with a customised WinUAE config.  This way, you still have Explorer if you need to exit WinUAE (for upgrades, file operations, etc.)  

Once you're in WinUAE there are a couple of packages that allow some interoperability with Windows (running executables, etc.)  I've never tried them myself, as I don't run WinUAE a lot.

[Lonewolf10]

Yeah, it's probably best to leave Explorer running, that way you can access the following whilst in WinUAE:

CD/DVD drive
USB Memory sticks (just discovered that this week)
Any attached printers


There's probably a few other things too, but I mainly use WinUAE to get my AMOS Basic programming fix. I do occasionally play games and other stuff too, just not right now.

BTW, I am currently running WinUAE 1.44 (was going to upgrade to 1.5 tonight, but the site appears to be down).


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[amigakidd]

That's why its called WinUAE. It's UAE for Windows.
Microsoft isn't that evil company we used to think of them a couple of years ago. MS is going towards more of cloud based computing and things are changing after Bill Gates left.

Who is the next evil giant: Apple. They are reaching their double digit peak soon due to popularity of OS X and the iPhone/iPod. Windows owns 92% and their market share is going down gradually as time goes on. I just happen to like PCs since I grew up around them along with macs. I use leopard at work, but I prefer XP (not Vista) as my OS of choice, because WinUAE is fast on it. Plus, I'm the geeky type, Macs don't cut it for me.

To WinUAE fans like myself, there could come a time when Cloanto could just develop for Mac and leave Windows as the second class citzen and it could be MacUAE instead of WinUAE. As time marches on, as long as I have my Kickstart ROMs, I'm happy to run them in any system along with my Amiga games. Shadow of the Beast ~~

[Flashlab]

Uh, I still see MS as a monopolist with some dirty tricks up the sleeve. Bill Gates had nothing to with it; it's typical monopolist behaviour. And frankly I think Steve Ballmer is worse than Bill Gates.

[Flashlab]

@amigakidd

Are you an Amiga fan or a WinUAE fan?

[amigakidd]

Both. But I think WinUAE and Amiga Forever is the best thing that happened to the Amiga Community recently this decade. Why? Nothing new is coming out from Amiga Inc, then virtualization is the future of computing as far as emulation goes. As a far a types of Amiga fanboyism goes: There are Amiga Forever Fans, WinUAE, MorphOS, AROS, X-Amiga, and the original Amiga fans. The Amiga family tree has grown in the last 10 years thanks to the Web.

I have a broken A500 I bought back in 2002. Kept it for Nostalgia. Instead of eBay, I looked for a solution to play Amiga games. I found out about WinUAE and AF.
But I like WinUAE because it integrates well with Amiga Forever. I want to thank Michael Battialana at Cloanto for this.

I'm just a big fan of Cloanto, they do things great.
Many of you Amiga die hards may disagree, but Cloanto is
doing more than Amiga Inc. (Bill McEwen)

But to answer your question: I belong in the Amiga Forever/WinUAE fanboy category. Hey you guys can use any Amiga system you want. I'm just saying I love AF/WinUAE. :-)

[Flashlab]

I don't necessarily disagree about Cloanto, as Amiga Inc does nothing except pay some lawyers!

[MozzerFan]

Lonewolf10 wrote:

Yeah, it's probably best to leave Explorer running, that way you can access the following whilst in WinUAE:

CD/DVD drive
USB Memory sticks (just discovered that this week)
Any attached printers

I'm running WinUAE as a replacement for explorer.exe myself and have absolutely no problem accessing my CD drive, usb-sticks etc. If you do have problems accessing these when replacing explorer, there must be something wrong with your config files.
EDIT: explorer.exe is nothing more than a graphical user interface. You can compare it with loadwb on the amiga.
The drivers for cd/dvd drives, usb etc. are NOT loaded through explorer.exe. You can replace it by any program you like.

Regards,
Lloyd

[MozzerFan]

adolescent wrote:
I'd suggest not replacing the shell, just run it as a startup item with a customised WinUAE config.  This way, you still have Explorer if you need to exit WinUAE (for upgrades, file operations, etc.)  

When you replace explorer.exe and you exit winuae, you can still start explorer.exe by pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and starting explorer.exe manually.

Regards,
Lloyd