Amiga games on the PC?

[foleyjo]

itix wrote:
Most of those games play nicely on Amiga with DosBox.

Ive never used DOSBOX but your post and the games on that link got me interested. So I have a couple of questions
Is the one on Aminet the latest one?
will it run on an A1200 060 64MB Ram OS3.9?
If the answer is yes what else do I need to download as it says on the readme I need SDL Librarys

Extra Question - How do you know if a game will work or not or is just trial and error.

[foleyjo]

Ive just tried dosbox but it brings up an error
"SDL INIT - No Available video Device"
I ave the SDL.Library in my SYS:Libs/ like it says and have everything else it says

I tried PC Task in the past but could not get it to do anything. I think I was missing the actual dos files needed to run it. Dont suppose you could spend a few moments to talk me through getting it setup

theres a few adventure games that I want to play that arent available on Amiga or ScummVM

[foleyjo]

OK So Dosbx wont work without SDL.Library which Im guessing doesnt work without a graphics card of some kind so unless someone knows another way to get this working thats a no go

PC Task I have version 3 but I dont have a floppy drive on my PC so even if I get dos I dont know how I could use it.
Maybe someone has zip of a preinstalled setup they could send me or something??

[foleyjo]

Angus wrote:

I had a hardfile I believe, and managed to import DOS to it. Then I would fire up the emulator into DOS, and execute the game. I can have a look and see what I have archived if you like - it might be later in the week though.

That would be great.

Im thinking thought PC Task might not run the games very well on my setup and apparantly shapeshifter is a faster emulator. Does anyone know where I can get games that run on shapeshifter? I might find the Mac versions of the games I want to play

[foleyjo]

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