Fabio RomeoThe Amiga was my dream computer that I was never able to have, and now I'm here pondering what emulators should I get. I really want to try this thing.
Tim Locke 🇨🇦♥🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@fabioromeu The most popular software emulator is UAE (WinUAE on Windows). The most popular hardware emulation is the MiSTer which is FPGA based and can emulate a number of vintage computers and game consoles.
@timlocke I'll have a look, thanks!
Roman Oswald@fabioromeu winuae is the answer!
Zorro@fabioromeu good to hear that you're addressing that lack 30+ years later - I hope it lives up to the hype!
UAE is probably the most well known emulator and there are loads of set up guides out there. You'll need the guides because the Amiga is a bit fiddly to get going - roms, chipsets, floppies, etc.
Is it for games, apps or something else?
@zorrobandito I hope too! I want to try both games and graphical apps, I remember being mesmerizes by the images generated on Amiga computers and I want to relive some of that nostalgia - but this time by playing with the thing that I could only see on magazines. UAE seems to be well known, I'll try it as soon as i get home.
@fabioromeu cool. If you need help with anything, reach out. I've setup UAE many, many times.
nivs@fabioromeu WinUAE for Windows, FS-UAE for macOS or Linux.
Fongaboo@fabioromeu AmigaForever from Cloanto is a nicely packaged distro of WinUAE.
@fabioromeu I think a lot of people were never able to have an Amiga. There were at least a dozen people I went to high school with who had a C64 but only myself and 1 other upgraded to an Amiga. Many got an IBM PC clone and one got an Atari ST instead. I worked a year between graduation and college and spent $999 in 1988 on an Amiga 500, A501 RAM expander and a 1084S monitor and used it in college.
@timlocke now that's interesting. I live in Brazil and lived there my whole life, so seeing magazines I always had this idea that this machine was pretty common to people out there - specially in North America.
Computers where pretty expensive down there, so we had to get by with one of many clones. My main computer for a long time was a MSX Expert that I used for gaming and doing school texts. Printing essays with a dot matrix printer made my parents scream with joy. 😅
@fabioromeu Amigas were more popular in Europe than NA, especially after the A500 came out.