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Offline Ral-Clan

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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« on: April 17, 2011, 06:17:19 PM »
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If you use WinUAE (exclusively, you have no Amiga hardware) what do you use WinUAE for?

Well, I do have a couple A2000s and A500s in storage (the A2000s need some restoration), but I use WinUAE almost exclusively.  A lot of it is for productivity work.

1) music composing: Bars & Pipes, OctaMED, SoundFX
2) graphics: ImageFX, DPaint, Brilliance
3) 3d rendering: Aladdin4d, Lightwave
4) game playing: anything really

For graphics work WinUAE blows away any real Amiga I've owned because I can work in super hi-res (1920x1080) and it's much, much faster at rendering effects/frames than the 68040 I had.  Also I can configure a "virtual Amiga" with 1GB of RAM, etc.

Another great thing about WinUAE is I can setup multiple "virtual Amigas" so I can have a OS3.9 "modern classic" system and another OCS WB1.3 system, a KS2.05 system, etc...etc...etc...
This is very useful for very old applications or games that choke on different versions of the chipset/OS.

The last great thing is that I can have a shared folder between Windows and AmigaOS....so for example, I can save a graphics from ImageFX, flip over to Windows with a mouseclick and load it into a Windows application or vice-versa.
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Re: WinUAE Users - what do you use it for?
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2011, 10:50:16 PM »
If I had the space I would definitely have my A2000 set up next to my WinUAE machine (and also set up my A500, VIC-20, C64, Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision, PONG, Vectrex, etc...oh and eventually a Natami). :-)
Music I've made using Amigas and other retro-instruments: http://theovoids.bandcamp.com