Commodore Amiga

Through the early 90s rumours were heard about this fabled software, that would allow the tormented Acorn users to play the games their amiga-owning friends were playing, like Street Fighter 2 and Final Fight (to name but 2). The amiga has died out, but Acorn are still going strong, and finally we can play those games.

Before you get too excited, to run UAE you will need a Risc PC with at least 12Mb of RAM, and 1Mb VRAM is recommended - that rules me and my A5000 out! Further development of this emulator is unlikely, because of the immense amount of time this would take, although there is the possibility of Peter improving the keyboard handling in order to make it respond more quickly (especially on an Arm 610).

This is a port of the Unix Amiga Emulator (UAE), I understand it emulates an Amiga 500 with a 2Mb chip, and upto 11.8Mb of RAM. This is ported by Peter Teichman or this email address

Peter Teichmann
Fritz-Löffler-Str.12/A010
01069 Dresden
Germany

from the original by Berndt Schnit.

With an Arm610 it is not very fast, around 1/6 of Amiga 500 original speed, in Games and Demos slower, around 1/30. A Strongarm is about 5-8 times faster, and now also works fine. Unfortunately, emulation is by no means perfect, so don't be too disappointed if your favourite game won't run.

Speed Rating: ARM 3 Fails, ARM 6 - Too Slow, ARM 7 - Slow, StrongARM - Slow

The screenshot is taken from the Christmas Lemmings demo running on the Acorn version of UAE, supplied to me by Matt Nichols.

Emulators:
UAE (562Kb) ZIP archive
Original UAE emulator (for UNIX systems)
Peter Teichman's (porter's) Acorn software page - that you can download UAE from
Peter Teichman's homepage

Software:
Classics for UAE - pretty darn good:loads of games!
Lazarus - a good page for amiga resources, over 1.6Gb!
Aminet - the largest archive of Amiga software on the web.
Werner ZSolts
Loads of Amiga Demos
The Amiga Homepage - general Amiga information
Amiga Disk Images
xfactOr's how to do cool stuff with UAE page
UAE games (but not too many!)
The UAE adfs page
Amiga UAE/Parazar
An amiga game page
A UAE games page
The Amiga WebRing