What programmes work?

[coinage]

Does anyone know of a definitive list of programmes that work satisfactorily under each emulation package?

[Argo]

Wow! that's a tall order. I don't know of any definitive lists.
WinUAE should run quite abit or almost everything. You just have to get the settings right for what you are running.
Everything else that I know of doesn't have chipset emulation like UAE, so most system friendly non-chipset requiring software should work.

[coinage]

Yes, I knew that the question would be beyond the ability of any one person to answer; I was hoping that, during the time that emulation programmes have been in use, someone or some organisation (possibly the manufacturers) would have been collecting feedback from users of their capabilities. This would enable buyers to make an informed choice when buying one.

Thanks for your reply anyway.

[Aegothis]

I can tell you there is a DVD with over a thousand programs on it that I got specifically to try in Amiga Forever.  I wish I could share this so we could do a thorough testing, but I don't want to break any rules here.  I'm a little rusty, it's been years since I used a real Amiga. I will be asking a lot of questions I'm sure.  Feel free to PM me if you have any questions also.

[itix]

http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php

Unfortunately WinUAE is missing. But feel free to try them all and report results ;-)

[Floid]

itix wrote:
http://obligement.free.fr/articles/listejeuxamiga.php

Holy crap, that method of presenting the table is worthy of Edward Tufte!  :-o

[Trev]

Well, Amiga Forever is just a repackaged open source emulator, and while Cloanto has done an awesome job with their product, they can't be expected to test everything.

Back to the Roots <http://www.back2roots.org/> keeps track of WinUAE and Fellow compatibility for the software hosted on their site. They even maintain WinUAE and Fellow config files that may or may not work with what you have.

Trev

[alx]

@coinage

I'll assume that you mean pure emulators (not, for instance, OS4's 68k emulator) and I won't include Amithlon as it's not legal.  That leaves WinUAE/UAE, which is more compatible than any real Amiga (no need to run a degrader - just change the config - and you can get 8Mb chip RAM :-) ).

I've never seen anything that won't run at all on UAE, although I'm sure there must be a few games/demos utilising various non-emulated quirks of the custom chipset.  Simcity 2000 runs slowly on my 1.1Ghz PC (but faster than my 030 Amiga, and I'm sure a faster PC would manage it fine).  Quick colourfading on demos also seems to suffer, but again probably works fine under a better host PC.  I don't know how well it copes with networking as well (AFAIK the BSDSocket emulation just connects you to the internet, not any old LAN)  I'd say that UAE/Amiga Forever is virtually 100% compatible.

@Aegothis

Welcome to A.org - enjoy your stay :-D