Where can I find details and history of the Amiga hardware?

[Iggy_Drougge]

Actually, isn't Alice the graphics one?

It's not really that simple. All Amiga custom chips had additional functions. The Paula, for example, is known as the sound chip, but the U in its name means UART, and it is the floppy controller as well.
Alice is the name of the AGA version of Agnus, and Agnus is a DMA controller as well as handling parts of the graphic system.

[Iggy_Drougge]

I hope you can get it to do something usefull (like run amiga software  ).. the Java ST emulator often just boots to the desktop and sometimes I can't get the mouse to work and other bugs too.

Hehe, that sounds just like the STEmulator found on one of the early Fish disks.
Of course, that was the entire purpose of that emulator, stemming from the days of bitter feud between the two camps.