Emma Liv 🇨🇦Now listening:
#Amiga #music #chiptune #HippoPlayer #Workbench #RetroComputing #Commodore #PUAE #Retroarch
Playing this evening: Where in Europe Is Carmen Sandiego? (#Amiga) 🔍 For me this is a follow up to the original title, Where In The World which I've recently completed on Sega Genesis. 🧡
@wiredprairie I run #Amiga with Workbench v.3.1 via #PUAE in #RetroArch. For playing games, with the "full desktop experience". It has some "semi-modern" niceties though, like being installed on a virtual hard disk, and using WHDLoad to install games.
I never had an Amiga either (a bit young at the time and it wasn't common here anyways). There's no way I could afford the $ or time for the OG hardware now, but if a modern release using FPGA and in my budget were available, I'd be tempted :)
I don't understand why more #Amiga emulation fans don't use #PUAE over #Amiberry . It's so much easier to use and best of all, it (PUAE and #RetroArch) handle PAL 50hz mode on my 60hz-only monitor without any noticeable stutters or skips.
For just playing games it's pretty much plug and play, for setting up Workbench on a virtual hard disk documentation is unfortunately a bit sparse but I figured it out a while back and it's pretty easy.
General documentation here: https://docs.libretro.com/library/puae/
The blindingly pink Amiga I never had, lol.
(I set myself up a virtual Amiga with Workbench 3.1 and, of course, WHDLoad because I'm using it 99% for games). I never had an amiga growing up, I actually never knew about it, because I guess it wasn't really popular here, or not amongst my age group anyways? I remember consoles of course, and (ugh) MS-DOS/Windows. With and without shaders:
