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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: SysAdmin on July 14, 2011, 06:29:11 PM
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RunInUAE is the easiest & most fool-proof way to run Classic (68k) Amiga games & software on AmigaOS4, especially if you have an AmigaForever CD.
This release has various small improvements to RunInUAE:
* Reduced the need for an Amiga Forever CD (just supply your own Kickstart files.)
* Improved WHDLoad compatibility.
* Improved E-UAE compatibility, accuracy & performance.
* Fixed an installation bug.
* Fixed RunInUAE to (hopefully!) work on Update 3 of OS4.1.
* Added support for DMS disk images.
* and more![/b]
You can download it from here:
RunInUAE.lha (http://os4depot.net/share/emulation/utility/runinuae.lha)
Details of the changes:
* If you do not have an Amiga Forever CD, you no-longer have to supply files from a Workbench 3.1 disk (as a suitable fake WB3.1 will be created).
* Improved WHDLoad compatibility, by adding the "kick34005.A500" & "kick40068.A1200" files, which are needed by some games (such as Lucas Arts adventures).
* Various tweaks to E-UAE's configuration, to improve emulation compatibility, accuracy & performance. Heavily based on DAX's suggestions.
* Fixed an installation bug where RunInUAE might not run right automatically (until it had been run once manually).
* Improved patching of Workbench, to hopefully work on all versions of OS4, including Update 3 for OS4.1.
* Added support for DMS disk images (works the same as ADFs).
* Added option to not change Workbench 3.1's screenmode prefs.
* Added a Help menu item (also recognises the Help key).
* Mason's pretty icons are now used for folders & E-UAE's icon.
What is RunInUAE?
RunInUAE is intended to make it incredibly easy to run old Amiga games on Amiga OS4, and it comes with an easy installer, so that you can:
* Run almost any HD installed 68k game (or program) inside E-UAE, by simply double-clicking on it! Including WHDLoad & JOTD JST installed games.
* Run ADF & DMS games by double-clicking them. (Needs a little bit of manual set-up if you don't have at least OS4.1 Update 1.) Otherwise just drag & drop them onto RunInUAE's icon in AmiDock or it's AppIcon.
* Run CD32 & CDTV games from real or virtual CDs. (Compatibility is not great.)
* The installer can set-up E-UAE with full-speed Sam-optimised settings. But it can also use your existing E-UAE settings if you want.
* The installer will copy the necessary Kickstart ROMs off an Amiga Forever CD, if you don't already have them installed.
* You do *not* need to set-up any assignments, nor create or edit any cryptic scripts or config files, for it to work! (Unlike alternative solutions.)
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Ok, so this sets up a seamless, transparent environment for classic AOS software, right?
So I can now run DPaint V on OS4.1 and (other then a few bugs that still need to be worked out) it will run just as if I were running on a classic Amiga? That's rather cool!
Have there been benchmark tests to compare the speed and resource management?
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Ok, so this sets up a seamless, transparent environment for classic AOS software, right?
So I can now run DPaint V on OS4.1 and (other then a few bugs that still need to be worked out) it will run just as if I were running on a classic Amiga? That's rather cool!
Last time I tried DPaint V it worked under OS 4.1, apart for a problem with menu items (they were black on black).