Amiga Games on Windows

[Eddie@TIME]

Greetings to all! My first post here.
Its a great feeling to play the games of yesteryears and be transported back in time. I have just this simple technical question. Months ago I found another emulator in DOS box which takes care of preferences and settings for certain games on Individual basis  and helps play games of the PC genre.

 I also did find certain games queried there , which are AMIGA games. Googling I found that AMIGA had its own OS and hardware structures. Then how do they get played in DOS. Does it mean that all AMIGA games would play on Dosbox or an emulator like WINUAE would be needed?

Thankyou.

[bloodline]

Greetings to all! My first post here.
Its a great feeling to play the games of yesteryears and be transported back in time. I have just this simple technical question. Months ago I found another emulator in DOS box which takes care of preferences and settings for certain games on Individual basis  and helps play games of the PC genre.

 I also did find certain games queried there , which are AMIGA games. Googling I found that AMIGA had its own OS and hardware structures. Then how do they get played in DOS. Does it mean that all AMIGA games would play on Dosbox or an emulator like WINUAE would be needed?

Thankyou.

You are correct, you will need three things:

1. WinUAE - free
2. Amiga ROM files (or use the free open source AROS equivalent) - some cost with the Amiga Forever package.
3. A disk file of the game you want to play - googling will probably find the game you want.

Or if you have a very fast computer: http://www.scriptedamigaemulator.net

[Eddie@TIME]

You are correct, you will need three things:

1. WinUAE - free
2. Amiga ROM files (or use the free open source AROS equivalent) - some cost with the Amiga Forever package.
3. A disk file of the game you want to play - googling will probably find the game you want.

Or if you have a very fast computer: www.scriptedamigaemulator.net

 Thankyou for the info.I will follow it. Just one more clarification needed. If that is so then what are such games playable by DOSbox under DOS conditions (some games are discussed in those forums). Are the exe s of the game supposed to be the same or some (only some) was specifically written for DOS in the earlier times?

[bloodline]

Thankyou for the info.I will follow it. Just one more clarification needed. If that is so then what are such games playable by DOSbox under DOS conditions (some games are discussed in those forums). Are the exe s of the game supposed to be the same or some (only some) was specifically written for DOS in the earlier times?

DOS games are written to run on the IBM PC compatible hardware, Amiga games need the amiga hardware.

The modern PC is really quite far removed from the original PC, so much so that you need an emulator like DOSBox which emulates the original PC hardware and software.

I hope this helps.

[fishy_fiz]

There appears to be some confusion. As Bloodline mentioned you need amiga hardware (or an amiga emulator) to run amiga software. Dosbox wont run amiga software.
Where the confusion may lay is that much like today a lot of software was available for multiple platforms. It could be that what you're assuming is amiga software is simply the DOS version of said software.

[Eddie@TIME]

Thankyou bloodline & fishy_fiz for the clarification offered. So afterall there were versions of AMIGA games also made for DOS which are the ones that are discussed in DOSBox forums.  I believe the majority of the games may be pure AMIGA only which would need an AMIGA emulator.

[Eddie@TIME]

Hi,
 I have loaded the kickstart to the WINUAE , when a game was loaded there is an automatic redirection to Microsoft to upgrade Directx which I am doing right now.

 Another simple question please. How to automate. Is there a way of using a shortcut for a game , clicking , it will start WINUAE and it in turn will boot the specified game and start playing. Also does all game s have to be booter games only?

[Borut]

I think "Amigula" is what U R searching 4 = Games Frontend

[Dopuser]

How to automate. Is there a way of using a shortcut for a game , clicking , it will start WINUAE and it in turn will boot the specified game and start playing.

Something ready to use:

           http://thecompany.pl/game

[Eddie@TIME]

Something ready to use:

           http://thecompany.pl/game

This one looks very surprising. I wonder how they port such games. Do they have the coding with them or is that it is superficially adapted. I did see a post there , "Leave the job of making the exe to us".

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Hi,
 I have loaded the kickstart to the WINUAE , when a game was loaded there is an automatic redirection to Microsoft to upgrade Directx which I am doing right now.

 Another simple question please. How to automate. Is there a way of using a shortcut for a game , clicking , it will start WINUAE and it in turn will boot the specified game and start playing. Also does all game s have to be booter games only?

There is gamebase, Lemonade and AmigaForever as far as I know. These packages scan for roms and disk images and show you a nice list of amiga games with information, screenshots and a one-click play button. Much like MAME.

Considering kickstarts, you need 1.2 or 1.3 for OCS/ECS (the Original/Enhanced ChipSet, found in the Amiga 1000, 500, 600, 2000, 3000 and CDTV) games and 3.0/3.1 for AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture, found in the Amiga 1200, 4000 and CD32) games, and optionally the CDTV/CD32 extended roms if you want to play games for these systems as well (IMHO, not really worthwhile though)