Amiga games on the PC?

[Angus]

foleyjo wrote:
Ive never used DOSBOX

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.

I don't think Dosbox runs at acceptable speed on 060, but I've not tried. What I did with a similar spec to yours was run on of the Amiga pc emulators, like pc-task and the other one, and got Mechwarrior 1 running very nicely. Its a 3D game. Yes, I think its trial and error.

[Angus]

foleyjo wrote:
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??

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.

[Angus]

foleyjo wrote:

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

There was a site called macintosh garden I think which you might google for. Shapeshifter is good, but with AGA you may find that Fusion is better, although since I got my Mediator I can no longer get it to run. The other thing is don't believe it when people say that hardfiles are too slow. If you format your partition with the right files system, they are really fast.

[Angus]

foleyjo wrote:

Angus wrote:

I had a hardfile I believe, and managed to import DOS to it. .

That would be great.

I've found what I believe to my PC-task hardfile which should have DOS on it, and I think Mechwarrior. If you want to pm me, with an e-mail address, I'll send it to you, if you like. Its a 10 meg hardfile, but it lha's down to 3 megs.

Cheers.