Mac OS X Snow Leopard AMIGA Emulation

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Get Parallels Desktop, Install Windows 7 (or XP or whatever) and run WinUAE.

Works perfectly.

There's a cheaper solution: Virtualbox is free, and if you don't need Windows for anything other than to run WinUAE, it's more than adequate. Legal and valid Windows XP installation CDs still go cheaply on eBay.

Create a 16 GByte virtual disk, install Windows XP inside Virtualbox, register your copy of Windows XP and wait for a gazillion of operating system updates to be installed. Since this update installation process will require frequent reboots you can't leave it completely unattended. So I'd recommend that you do this over the weekend whenever you can keep an eye on the system and reboot the virtual machine as necessary.

Finally, proceed to uninstall every bit of software that came with Windows XP which you don't need, and which only takes up space, e.g. Outlook, Movie maker, etc.

Now your system is ready for Amiga Forever or WinUAE.

I did all of this and more a couple of years back with VMware Fusion, and it's the same virtual machine I still use with Amiga Forever.

If you are unsure about using WinUAE instead of the "native" E-UAE ports for Mac OS X, let me tell you that there is a world of difference in reliability and functionality between them. WinUAE still is superior to the alternative, and by a long, long shot, too.

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Whilst we are on the subject of virtual machines and what not, although this is kind of out of topic, Is it possible to increase the size of the bootcamp partition (which i also use with parallels) without damaging the Windows 7 installation?

That depends. You may be able to increase the size of the partition through the boot camp utility, but only if your other file system(s) on the same disk permit it. If there is too much data stored on the other partitions, or the data is too heavily fragmented to be moved, then increasing the boot camp partition's size may not be possible. Making the boot camp partition smaller is likely going to cause damage.

Let's say you managed to make the boot camp partition larger. Then you will still need to tell the file system managing the partition to use the extra size. This can be done through GNU Parted (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/): download the live CD image, burn it, and the next time you reboot your machine, hold down the Option key and boot from that CD. It should allow you to resize the NTFS partition created for boot camp to cover the entire partition.