Amiga emulators: is it worth it?

[AmigaHeretic]

bloodline wrote:
@StormLord

...what we don't have anymore is low quality Display (TV) and Audio devices which cover up the flaws in the Amiga's outputs...  

Have to agree there.  I think when people see an old Amiga game at 320x200 on a 21.3" monitor, there like, WoW those are some big pixels! :-)


I use WinUAE and it's emulation is great.  The only thing that I never could get to work before was one of the NewTek demos where it shows "4096 color Hi-Res" (on OCS) and it has the picture of the guys face closed up, well, the latest version of WinUAE show it perfectly now.  So I guess it's WinUAE IS perfect now.

[AmigaHeretic]

DiskDoctor wrote:
BTW talking about some emulation, I assume AmiKit and AmigaForever environments claim to perform better?  Or am I just talking nonsense?

No I don't think they claim better performance or anything.

Basically, AmigaForever is the same WinUAE we download.  But it includes all the Kickstart ROMs, 1.0 to 3.1 (maybe 3.5 - 3.9) as well as all the disks for pretty much all the OSes.  So Workbench 1.0 disk to a full set of Workbench 3.1 disks. (ADF format of course).  It also comes with tons of games and it installs a "launcher" to choose from a huge list of games which in turn launches WinUAE with a specific config.


Now, AmiKit, you could think of like an image of someones Amiga Harddrive that has tons and tons of programs.  You still need your own legal copy of Amiga Workbench and rom images (which the installer automatically adds to the HD image)  It still just WinUAE, but your HD is now setup with 24bit drivers, AHI, and 1000s or programs.  Makes it real easy to get into a high end Amiga setup.  Great for people coming back to the Amiga and seeing how far we've come.