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.


Unix Amiga Emulator

UAE by Berndt Schnit has been ported to the Acorn by Peter Teichman. He has added a nice WIMP front end, and made the emulator as easy to use as possible. Compatibility is quite reasonable, but the emulator is pretty slow because of the complexity of the Amiga. It seems that there has been a later version of the generic source code released, so that this emulator could be improved, but like all 68000 systems it would be as inherently slow as the current version.

The actual Amiga emulated is an Amiga 500 with 2Mb chip, and upto 11.8 Mb RAM. The emulator requires a RISC PC with at least 12Mb of RAM and 1Mb VRAM, and you'll need a StrongARM to get anything like usable speed out of it.

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 StrongARM Slow

UAE (562Kb) ZIP archive
Original UAE emulator (for UNIX systems)
Generic UAE page
Peter Teichman's homepage


Technical Information
CPU - MC68000, running at 7.15909 MHz
Display- 320x200x32 to 640x400x16 from 4096 colours
Sound - 4 channels, controlled by Paula chip
RAM - 256 Kb upto 8 Mb
ROM - 256 Kb OS ROM
reference - Machine Room

Software:
Classics for UAE
Lazarus
Aminet
Werner ZSolts
Loads of Amiga Demos
The Amiga Homepage
Amiga Disk Images
xfactOr's how to do cool stuff with UAE page
UAE games
The UAE adfs page
Amiga UAE/Parazar
An amiga game page
A UAE games page
The Amiga WebRing


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