A few questions regarding Winuae/AmigaForever

[Zildjianmeister]

Hello,
 
I'm a newcomer to the Amiga world. A while back I posted that I was interested in getting into the Amiga hobby. I was looking at getting an A1200 or minimig. I had many helpful responses. However, for the short term with the holidays coming up and $$ I am going to try out emulation. I'm hoping you could help with a few questions.
 
Any suggestions on a good joystick/gamepad that would work well with winuae/AForever and a pc? I've seen that some like the competition pro usb joystick but also read some comments about it being slow or unresponsive.
 
Is Winuae video card reliant? I have a few machines I could try it on. Both machines have decent processor speeds and ram. One has a basic video, either on-board or a basic card, the other has a Radeon 9800 pro. Was curious if a powerful card is required.
 
Lastly, how well does Winuae work on a 24inch lcd widescreen monitor? Some day I'd like to get one. For now I'll be using a 20" lcd non widescreen 4:3 monitor. I know the 24s can handle some high resolutions. Does full screen mode work well, especially with widescreen? I havn't been able to find any screen shots of the various video modes.
 
Thank you for all your help!

[Zildjianmeister]

Arkhan,
 
Thank you for your response.
I've been searching in various sites and seems like a lot of opinions about joysticks and gamepads. Guess I'll have to try one on my own and see how it goes.
 
Thanks again!

[Zildjianmeister]

Thanks for the tips everyone!
 
I just got the Amigaforever/Winuae package and playing around with it. Some things, being a complete Amiga newbie, I'm struggling with a little. :confused:
 
On the Amigaforever front end is there a way to stretch the windows in windowed mode?  I tried full screen but didn't think it looked that great.  I saw a "full windowed" option in Winuae thinking that maybe I could play around with that but got error message stating no rom file even though I had it.
 
I also tried to run the workbench full screen but that didn't work so well. I got it full screen when I lowered my laptop screen resolution to the lowest setting but it doesn't seem right. I see screenshots from others using winuae and the workbench looks great with nice resolutions.
 
Last but not least I was curious if there was a way to run the games, adf or whatever from the actual workbench. I may pick up a manual or something since I've never used Amiga before.
 
Thanks for all the help!

[Zildjianmeister]

Thanks for all the responses!