Amiga Forever purchase a mistake?

[Ral-Clan]

Maybe I am just missing it (I can't find documentation to explain how to do this in Amiga Forever).  But I basically want to set up a new virtual hard drive and configure WinUAE to run as my A2000 did (040, 32MB RAM, ECS, graphics card, etc).  However, although Amiga Forever allows you to get to the UAE config window, I doesn't seem to allow me to "save" any of the changes I make.  i.e. if I set the UAE settings within Amiga Forever to run as an 040 machine, specify the MIDI and Parallel port outputs, joystick settings etc. they are all "lost" at the end of the session.

Also, it doesn't seem possible to add another "SYSTEM" (of my own configuration) to the SYSTEM list in the Amiga Forever "Player".

Is it possible to add my own .dms game images to the "Games" list in the Amiga Player?  When I start these .dms images up, they are listed temporarily in the "games" list until I close Amiga Forever, then the next time they are not there.

That's part of the reason I get the impression that Amiga Forever is not meant to be set up as a custom configuration, but rather just a platform for instantly starting Amiga games and demos from disk images with a single click.  I get the impression that the designers want you to use their two Amiga setups (the 1.3 version and the 3.1 version).

[amigakidd]

Amiga Forever is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Looks cute on my tiny eee pc.

[Darth_X]

*Amiga Forever purchase a mistake?*
NO!!!

*AmigaOne purchase a mistake?*
 :crazy:

[davideo]

In my case a big definate YES!!!!!

I bought my Amiga Forever about a year ago and since then my home life has been hell.........

I've got back into the Miggy from an absence of about 10 years.

I've spent a fortune on buying my dream machine Miggy 4000D.

I've had less free time with all the emulator playing, tweaking, locating ADFs and of course playing on my real 4000D.

I would have had more free time and more cash in my pocket without buying Amiga Forever.

So thank you for wasting my money and time  :lol:  :lol:

Dave G  8-)

[Ral-Clan]

Okay, I've got the configuration figured out in Amiga Forever.  Mostly I'm starting up Amiga Forever, going into the WinUAE settings, and have set up my own "machine" there (a 68040 AGA virtual A4000).  Fine.  I was even able to install Workbench 3.1 on it no problem.  Then I click the "START" button at the bottom of the WinUAE config screen to start it.

But is there any way to add this sytem to the Amiga Forever "Player"?  Otherwise, I'm not really using Amiga Forever at all, I'm just bypassing it in an awkward way to get to the UAE part of it all the time.  I might just as well install UAE in that case and uninstall Amiga Forever.

A few other questions regarding Amiga emulation:

- which is better to use as my virtual Amiga "hard drive": a hard-file or a windows directory mapped to the Amiga emulation.  I can see the advantage of mapping the Windows directory (you have instant access from the windows side to your Amiga files).  But perhaps the hard-file is more compatible or faster?

- I am a registered, paid user of Cybergraphix.  Is there any way to use it in UAE, or is Picasso96 the only RTG software for UAE?

- Everything was just great until I installed Workbench 3.9 over top of my 3.1 installation.  Then, things really slowed down like molasses.  Running programs was fine and speedy, but just opening a window and showing the icons of the workbench, etc. became slower than my old A500 (I am using an emulated 256 colour AGA screen in my Screen Prefs).  I installed Picasso96 figuring that RTG would speed things up (no custom chips to be emulated), but nope.  Things are sooo slow (this is on a 68020 & 68040 emulated Amiga with 2MB RTG RAM, 32MB Fast, 2MB chip).  I wonder what I am doing wrong.  The OS3.1 installation that comes as default Amiga Forever with RTG running is nice and speedy.

- I JUST READ that UAE does not support MIDI input!  This is the main reason I bought it (to use my MIDI software!).  Is this true?
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-107.html