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The "Not Quite Amiga but still computer related category" => Amiga Emulation => Topic started by: on February 26, 2003, 02:06:12 PM

Title: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: on February 26, 2003, 02:06:12 PM: Hi All

Sorry just posted this in the wrong list.

Hi All

I have a nice new shiny Mac, my Amiga is still setup in another room.

I would like to Emulate the Amiga on my Mac.

Can anybody tell me the best Amiga emulator for the Mac running OSX?

Chris
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: odin on February 26, 2003, 02:14:14 PM: There ain't none. The two major 68k Mac emulators are Fusion and Shapeshifter, both are great for emulating up to OS8.5 (?).

There's only one PPC mac emu, called FusionPPC. It only works on CyberstormPPC cards and is OS9.x maximum AFAIK. I saw it on sale for ~70EUR somewhere recently (vesalia? KDH?).

-edit-
D'OH
I was talking about Mac on Amiga emu...you were asking the other way around :-D. I have no knowledge of that I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: Agafaster on February 26, 2003, 02:18:58 PM: odin, washac meant are there any Amiga Emulators for MacOS-X machines ! (ie: he wants to eg: play speedball without going into the other room !)

washac,

a quick google (mmm new verb ? to google(v) to look for something on the internet !) produced this (http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxuae) link. It is a (very !) beta download of an OS-X specific compilation of UAE - be warned its only been worked on since 29 December 2002 !

Let us know how you get on...
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: samdu on February 26, 2003, 03:02:59 PM: Shouldn't a BSD-based compile of UAE work just as well under OSX?
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: samdu on February 26, 2003, 03:05:54 PM: Quote
a quick google (mmm new verb ? to google(v) to look for something on the internet !)

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1943247&mode=thread&tid=133

Not if Google has anything to say about it. :)
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: Agafaster on February 26, 2003, 04:00:00 PM: Quote

samdu wrote:
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a quick google (mmm new verb ? to google(v) to look for something on the internet !)

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/25/1943247&mode=thread&tid=133

Not if Google has anything to say about it. :)

s0d em ! :-P
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: heimert on February 26, 2003, 04:01:35 PM: Hi

Try this: MaxUAE (http://sourceforge.net/projects/maxuae)
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: Mike_Amiga on March 03, 2003, 01:19:13 AM: I've got MacUAE 0.8.6 and still haven't got a ROM, do I have to buy one from an authorised dealer online?

My A500+ isn't connected to the webernet so I can't e-mail one to myself as suggested by someone.

:-(
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: Desmon on March 04, 2003, 08:31:06 AM: @Mike_Amiga
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I've got MacUAE 0.8.6 and still haven't got a ROM, do I have to buy one from an authorised dealer online?

My A500+ isn't connected to the webernet so I can't e-mail one to myself as suggested by someone.
:-(

Why not load up CrossDOS(tm) on the A500 and dump the ROM image to a PC formatted 720k disk? Surely your Mac can read PC floppies?
Even if it can't, you can take the floppy to a machine that can (NetCafe maybe!) and email the ROM image to yourself.
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: carls on March 04, 2003, 10:19:00 AM: @desmon:
Ah, the wonders of Macintosh: No floppy drives :-D
At least not since the G3 models were introduced...

@Mike_Amiga:
You could get Amiga Forever from Cloanto. You'll get all the ROMs from 1.0 to 3.1, plus the operating systems and some nice applications (TurboText, Personal Paint...)
Title: Re: Mac AMiga emulation
Post by: Desmon on March 05, 2003, 09:27:51 AM: @carls
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Ah, the wonders of Macintosh: No floppy drives :-D
At least not since the G3 models were introduced...

Which is why I also mentioned the email method.
Even the OS3.1 ROM can't possibly be bigger than 512KB or it wouldn't fit on the chip, so it'd have to fit onto a 720K disk.