As I said, I may be too stupid to run an Amiga emulator.
Downloaded and installed WinUAE into a Windows 7 environment (Parallels
. Also downloaded UAEInstall.adf file. Copied my kick.rom file from the Mac environment into my Documents folder. Specified it manually after all tries to simply designate that directory and let WinUAE scan for a rom file failed. Specified a folder to be used as a hard disk with bootable checked "yes". Clicked "Start". I got the purple screen wit the Amiga double-checkmarks and the animation of disk going in. Hmm, no overhead menus?!? No place in the GUI to say "I'm sticking yonder floppy into DF0? Alt-Tab, hit the Windows
- to kill the app. Relaunch. This time specified a floppy disk (the abovementioned UAEInstall.adf file).
It complains about the absence of either this required ROM or that alternative required ROM; I click OK and find that it lost all my settings for ROM file and for hard disk folder/volume; I re-enter those, click
Start again. This time I boot to AmigaDOS, but not to anything akin to workbench. MMkay, NOW what?!@?
well I have the same .adf file that I was (failing to successfully) using to install under the Mac version. Copy that adf file instead.
Launch WinUAE again. Click past the warning about no ROM files. Re-enter all my settings again (path to ROM file, path to folder representing virtual hard drive, path to floppy this time specifying the old WB installer).
Start again. Yay, workbench screen! I'm now about as far as I ever got when running MacUAE / MaxUAE.
I double-click the Install3.1 diskette icon, double-click the folder/(the icon looks like a little file cabinet, do y'all call them folders or directories or what?) named "install", then double-click the "English" installer icon. After a glacial epoch or so, I get a window "Install - Press 'Esc' to Abort". I confirm that I want to install Workbench 3.1.
Welcome to the Workbench 3.1 installation utility. Please indicate how the installation should proceed (based upon your knwoledge of the Amiga). [ ] Novice User - All Actions Automatic; [ ] Intermediate User - Limited Manual Contro; [ ] Expert User - Must Confirm All Actions
Let's go with Novice user, shall we?
Confirm English. Select printers (?.... let's go with PostScript, I stand a chance of printing to a file that I can interpret outside the Amiga environment... Proceed...
Working on installation... Preparing icons...
And then it does exactly what it did on the Mac some 30 years ago, and on subsequent attempts:
This is the only bloody disk I've got! So I guess I should ideally have additional disks. The name of this installation disk appears to be "Install3.1" and it is asking for "Amiga Workbench" ? Where do I get that? (Is it available as a free download? I hope so, not so much because I need my warez for free but because I assume I can't run down to the local Commodore-Amiga store and buy it...)
But even pretending for a moment that I had additional disk images sitting around, I see no WinUAE menus that would let me select a command such as "Insert Disk into DF0", like there is on the Mac versions.
And why won't this emulator retain my settings? And why can't it (or FS-UAE by the way) scan a folder and recognize it as a proper ROM file, by the way? Clearly it IS one!
Is there a means by which I can pay a person who is versed in this stuff to give me keystroke-for-keystroke, mouse-click for mouse-click assistance and/or remote into my environment with TeamViewer or equiv and show me how this is done?