Amiga Games on Windows

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Greetings to all! My first post here.
Its a great feeling to play the games of yesteryears and be transported back in time. I have just this simple technical question. Months ago I found another emulator in DOS box which takes care of preferences and settings for certain games on Individual basis  and helps play games of the PC genre.

 I also did find certain games queried there , which are AMIGA games. Googling I found that AMIGA had its own OS and hardware structures. Then how do they get played in DOS. Does it mean that all AMIGA games would play on Dosbox or an emulator like WINUAE would be needed?

Thankyou.

You are correct, you will need three things:

1. WinUAE - free
2. Amiga ROM files (or use the free open source AROS equivalent) - some cost with the Amiga Forever package.
3. A disk file of the game you want to play - googling will probably find the game you want.

Or if you have a very fast computer: http://www.scriptedamigaemulator.net

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Thankyou for the info.I will follow it. Just one more clarification needed. If that is so then what are such games playable by DOSbox under DOS conditions (some games are discussed in those forums). Are the exe s of the game supposed to be the same or some (only some) was specifically written for DOS in the earlier times?

DOS games are written to run on the IBM PC compatible hardware, Amiga games need the amiga hardware.

The modern PC is really quite far removed from the original PC, so much so that you need an emulator like DOSBox which emulates the original PC hardware and software.

I hope this helps.