Emulator on Amiga 4000

[lassie]

Hi have you tried any emulator on your Amigas? i have tried Sega master system games, and commodore 64 games and Nintendo and game boy and Atari 2600 and 7800 games. they work quite well on a Amiga 4000/030 but the commodore 64 music is way of, that is not something it can emulate very good, other than that it works quite well. I am surprised that it can be done on a 030 CPU

[bbond007]

The C= 64's SID chip in is a pretty cool and complex digital and analog device...

I'm sure its difficult to emulate...

As far as emulators, I really have only run ShapeShifter and PC-Task. Shapeshifter runs most games great except for Sierra. Never been able to get any of those working.

Which Nintendo emulator are you using? I did try one and I thought it ran sort of choppy hard to play Super Mario and I have an 060. I don't recall which one I was running... Maybe I was not using the best one...

[lassie]

The C= 64's SID chip in is a pretty cool and complex digital and analog device...

I'm sure its difficult to emulate...

As far as emulators, I really have only run ShapeShifter and PC-Task. Shapeshifter runs most games great except for Sierra. Never been able to get any of those working.

Which Nintendo emulator are you using? I did try one and I thought it ran sort of choppy hard to play Super Mario and I have an 060. I don't recall which one I was running... Maybe I was not using the best one...

Hi i am using CoolnesS. This run nes games quite good on mine. They other i use are magic64, Amimastergear. Atari800XL. mame030. There are some slowdown on the magic64 on some games.

[lassie]

I have some fun playing Wolfenstein 3D on my Amiga also but no sound, but the game runs quite fine

[Thorham]

AmiMSX, which I use to play Kings Valley 2 from Konami sometimes:

V2.52: http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/AmiMSX252
V3.1 (source code): http://aminet.net/package/misc/emu/AmiMSX_asm

Runs too fast on my A1200 with 50 mhz 68030, but the emulator has a much needed slowdown feature. Emulates MSX 1, 2 and 2+.

[Rob]

Hi i am using CoolnesS. This run nes games quite good on mine. They other i use are magic64, Amimastergear. Atari800XL. mame030. There are some slowdown on the magic64 on some games.

Amimastergear and the developers other emulators are incredibly fast because they are written in assembly and seem to be highly optimised.  I seem to remember playing one of the Sonic games at about 300 fps on my 060.

I never tried C64 emulation since I didn't own one back in the day it holds no nostalgia but I heard a lot of good things about Frodo so maybe that's worth a try for C64 fix.

[darksun9210]

on a bog standard 25Mhz 030 (33Mhz 882) A4000/030 (16MB mobo fast)
managed to install DOS6.22, and windows 3.11 on PC-Task. i remember being impressed enough that it could do it, even if with the screen refresh all it was good for was running the clock. chuffed it worked though.
rumor has it that someone has had a windows95 install on PCx.

on a PPC040/CV powered A1200, managed to run Mario64. i remember sitting there in stark amazement watching this thing run. ok so the frame rate was pretty poor. but it worked.
none of the other N64 games i had ran, so i figured it was mainly proof of concept. still very cool.

on an A4000T/PPC060, running fusion 3.2, ran MacOS8 for netscape and msoffice. i seem to remember these days, that last time i tried to do an install, i was annoyed i've got the 3.1 floppies, but i can't find the 3.2 update any more.

[whabang]

AmiMasterGear (Master System / GameGear emulator) ran well on my a1200 w. a 40 MHz 030, when I had one.

[Crumb]

Hi have you tried any emulator on your Amigas? i have tried Sega master system games, and commodore 64 games and Nintendo and game boy and Atari 2600 and 7800 games. they work quite well on a Amiga 4000/030 but the commodore 64 music is way of, that is not something it can emulate very good, other than that it works quite well. I am surprised that it can be done on a 030 CPU

CoolNESS (NES) should work pretty nicely. Download latest version here: http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/coolness.htm

AmiBoy (GameBoy) by 007 should work fast and nicely, if you like MSX you'll find AmiMSX to be one of the best MSX emulators for any platform: Official Juan Antonio '007' Gomez Galvez Emulators web page: http://kung-foo.net/zener/AmiEmulatorsWeb/

Magic64 will probably be the fastest for your machine.

[drHirudo]

Hi have you tried any emulator on your Amigas? i have tried Sega master system games, and commodore 64 games and Nintendo and game boy and Atari 2600 and 7800 games. they work quite well on a Amiga 4000/030 but the commodore 64 music is way of, that is not something it can emulate very good, other than that it works quite well. I am surprised that it can be done on a 030 CPU

On my Amiga 4000/40/25 MHz I used to play lots of emulators.
Some of the emus you don't mentioned are pretty fun to play:
Nintendo Gameboy - Wzonka Lad - Latest updates by me. The author released almost the full source code, but a vital file was lacking. I asked him to send me the file and he did. I removed the keyfile need and did some minor updates. You can also try AmiGameBoy - common engine with the AmiMSX emulator - very fast.

Apple II/IIe - Apple 2000 - Very fast emulator for the classic Apple machines, although not all the IIe software works. I used to play hours with old classics. I have the full source code of the emulator, but I don't have much time to work on it.

ColecoVision - fMSX - emulates the MSX slower than the AmiMSX emulator, but this emulates ColecoVision cartridges.

Oric Atmos - AmOric - Pretty cool emulator of the Oric. Works nice but does not support disk drives.

AmstradCPC - Ami-CPC] - another cool retro machine that I used to learn Z80 on thanks to the educational software available on funet.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - [url=http://aminet.net/misc/emu/ASpEmu.lha]ASP - emulates 48K and 128K Speccy with AY sound. Works fine on AmigaOS 4. I even have video on it working on my AmgiaOne. You may need to run BlazeWCP or it will be slow on AGA machines.

Commodore Plus4 - Flamingo - Another nice emulator. I loved reading diskmags and enjoyed the colors of the machine, although the games are crappier than on the C64, because of the lack of sprites.

CP/M SimCPM - I used this for running some VERY old CPM software. Nothing fancy. The CP/M predates the other 8 bits machines, so don't expect much from it.

Of course there are many other cool machines that you can emulate on your Amiga. Most of the emulators are on Aminet, so just look there and enjoy.

[Borut]

rumor has it that someone has had a windows95 install on PCx.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GageVNNY9B8

[lassie]

On my Amiga 4000/40/25 MHz I used to play lots of emulators.
Some of the emus you don't mentioned are pretty fun to play:
Nintendo Gameboy - Wzonka Lad - Latest updates by me. The author released almost the full source code, but a vital file was lacking. I asked him to send me the file and he did. I removed the keyfile need and did some minor updates. You can also try AmiGameBoy - common engine with the AmiMSX emulator - very fast.

Apple II/IIe - Apple 2000 - Very fast emulator for the classic Apple machines, although not all the IIe software works. I used to play hours with old classics. I have the full source code of the emulator, but I don't have much time to work on it.

ColecoVision - fMSX - emulates the MSX slower than the AmiMSX emulator, but this emulates ColecoVision cartridges.

Oric Atmos - AmOric - Pretty cool emulator of the Oric. Works nice but does not support disk drives.

AmstradCPC - Ami-CPC] - another cool retro machine that I used to learn Z80 on thanks to the educational software available on funet.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - [url=http://aminet.net/misc/emu/ASpEmu.lha]ASP - emulates 48K and 128K Speccy with AY sound. Works fine on AmigaOS 4. I even have video on it working on my AmgiaOne. You may need to run BlazeWCP or it will be slow on AGA machines.

Commodore Plus4 - Flamingo - Another nice emulator. I loved reading diskmags and enjoyed the colors of the machine, although the games are crappier than on the C64, because of the lack of sprites.

CP/M SimCPM - I used this for running some VERY old CPM software. Nothing fancy. The CP/M predates the other 8 bits machines, so don't expect much from it.

Of course there are many other cool machines that you can emulate on your Amiga. Most of the emulators are on Aminet, so just look there and enjoy.

I will have a look at those :-)