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| Content | Link |
|---|---|
| Software and Files needed for FS-UAE Amiga Emulator | Link |
| Configuration and Setup | Link |
| How to Run FS-UAE | Link |
| Retropie: Amiga Emulator | Link |
| Retroarch Amiga Emulator | Link |
| FS-UAE Amiga Emulator Tutorial Video | Link |
| FS-UAE Amiga Emulator Install Workbench 3.1 O.S. on a Hard Drive Video | Link |
| AmigaDos Commands on Workbench 3.1 Video | Link |
| Retropie: Amiga Emulator Tutorial Video | Link |
| Retropie: Amiga Emulator Hard Drive Mount and Game Configs Video | Link |
| Retroarch: Amiga Emulator Tutorial Video | Link |
| Retroarch: Amiga Emulator Audio and Video Settings Video | Link |
| Retroarch: Amiga Emulator Compatibility Issues, Load and Save States Video | Link |
The first Amiga was released in 1985, and it was the Amiga 1000. It was a 16 bit computer system, which utilized the Motorola 68000 cpu. Two year later, the Amiga 500 was released in 1987 to be gaming computer. It wasn’t very popular in the United States, but it did have a huge following in the United Kingdom, and many parts of Western Europe in the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. The Amiga had many games on it, and many of the games developed and produced for it were very good. Amiga games were as good as video game consoles, like the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Nintendo Entertainment System, Turbografx-16/PC-Engine, and others.
On this webpage, I will show you how to setup and run a Amiga emulation. It is quite difficult to get a hold of a actual Amiga, but you can get a feel of how Amiga programs and games were like in the late 1980s, and early 1990s.
Software and Files needed for FS-UAE Amiga Emulator
◙ 1. FS-UAE Emulator Download Link
◙ 2. FS-UAE Theme Download Page Download Link
◙ 3. Amiga Forever - Store (Buy ROM sets/WorkBench OS/Games) Download Link
◙ 4. Abandomware.com (Retro Computer Games) Download Link
◙ 5. WorkBench 3.1 O.S. Download Link
Configuration and Setup
1. Install the FS-UAE emulator on your computer.
2. Start the FS-UAE emulator and import kickstart roms(BIOS)
• Go to the main menu and import kickstart roms
• Check to see which kickstart versions are available
3. Go to "Amiga Model", and select a Amiga computer you want to emulate.
4. Configure the Amiga Model
• Select the CPU
• Select "Drive Count" and select the number of drives (1 to 4)
• Select the Additional configuration icon, it looks like a light switch.
♠ Here select "Floppy Disk Speed" I recommend turbo.
5. Select the Joystick & Mouse Port icon, it looks like a joystick.
• Configure the Amiga Joystick, you can select your usb gamepad.
• Configure the Amiga Mouse, and that should be your Windows Mouse by default.
6. Select the ROMS & RAM icon, and this looks like a CPU.
• Configure Chip RAM - 1 MB to 8 MB
7 Go to the menu icon located on the top left, and go to "settings".
• Select your joystick, and configure the joystick buttons.
• Select the video settings if you want to change video resolution settings.
8. Add a overlay theme, this is optional.
• On your Windows file explorer, type in documents, and go to FS-UAE.
• In the FS-UAE documents folder create a themes folder.
• Unzip the themes files you go from https://fs-uae.net/theme-options, and put it into the themes folder.
As 1084x_night_wall_white_1.0 folder, and not as separate files.
• Go back to menu - settings - advanced, and type in the following "theme = 1084x_night_wall_white_1.0" .
How to Run FS-UAE
1. Click on the floppy disk paper icon, and select a floppy disk image. You can add a maximum of 4 disks.
2. You can save the configuration for each game. Click on the Config and Game tab located on the
bottom left corner.
• Type in a name and press the down icon to save it.
3. To start, just click on the start icon located on the bottom right corner.
4. To exit, press the F12 key, and click on the x icon located on the top right corner.
5. To save states, press F12, and select save state.
6. To load states, press F12, and select load state.
7. To reset or restart the Amiga emulation, press F12, and select reset Amiga.
8. Swap disks: Go to Media Swap List, and you can start adding disks you want to swap once emulation is started.
• Press F12, and go to your current disk, and select the next disk.
◙ FS-UAE Amiga Emulator Tutorial Video Link to Video
Install Workbench 3.1 O.S. on a Hard Drive Image
1. Go to your FS-UAE emulator folder, and create a folder called HDD
2. Create a subdirectory in the HDD folder called Software
3. Start the FS-UAE emulator application.
4. Go to the menu located in the top right corner
5. Select "HDF Creator".
6. Type in a filename for your hdd disk image
7. Under size type the size of your hard drive, it can be 40 MBs to 256 MBs
8. Browse a folder you want to send your hdd image to. For me, it will be
in my FS-UAE emulator folder in a subdirectory called HDD.
9. Click on "create" to create a hdd image.
10. Connect the hard drive image and software folder.
• Go to the hard drive icon.
• To connect the hard drive image, select the paper icon, and select
the hdd image.
• To connect the software folder, select the folder icon, and select
the software folder.
11. Go to the floppy disk icon, and select the Workbench 3.1 installation disk.
It should be called install31.adf .
12. Select the Media Swap List, and put in the following disks.
• extras31.adf
• fonts31.adf
• install31.adf
• locale31.adf
• storage31.adf
• wbench31.adf
13. Start the emulation.
14. Go to icons located on the top, and select "Format Disk".
• New Volume Name: Write in anything
• Select "Put Trashcan" if it is not selected.
• Click on "Format" (This will take a few minutes, so be patient)
15. Install Workbench 3.1 on your hard drive.
• Click on the Install 3.1 disk
• Click Install
• Select your language
• Click Proceed
• Install Release 3.1
• Proceed With Install
• To swap disks press the "F12" key then go to disk, and
select your disk. Then, select the disk that is needed.
• Follow directions and enter the disks that are needed to
complete the installation.
• After everything is done installing, the O.S. will reboot.
16. Shutdown Workbench - Go to the square icon located on the top left corner
, and quit workbench.
◙ FS-UAE Amiga Emulator Install Workbench 3.1 O.S. on a Hard Drive Video Link to Video
Retropie: Amiga Emulator
To use the Amiga emulator on Retropie requires you to get a number of things which
I will list below.
♦ Kickstart Roms
• https://www.amigaforever.com/shop/
♦ Games for the Amiga
• https://www.myabandonware.com/
I will assume that you already have Retropie on your Raspberry Pi 3 or Pi 4
Single Board Computer.
1. Access Retropie by going to Windows Explorer, and type in \\Retropie .
2. Go to the Retropie bios folder, and put all the Kickstart bios files in there. \\Retropie\bios
3. In the Retropie operating system, go to the Retropie menu.
4. Go to "Retropie Setup".
5. In Retropie-Setup Script, go to "Manage package".
6. Go to "Manage optional packages".
7. Install amiberry emulator, and install from source.
8. Restart Retropie.
9. Go back to your computer, and put in the rom files in the Amiga roms folder. \\Retropie\roms\Amiga
10. In the Retropie operating system, select the Amiga emulator, and select a game to run.
11. While you are running the Amiga emulator, press the "F12" key to go to the configuration menu.
There, you can configure the emulator, like changing the Kickstart bios to emulator different
Amiga machines, change ram settings, input hard drive images, configure floppy disk drives, etc.
12. To mount a hard drive image, press "F12" while you the Amiga emulator is running.
You can put the hard drive image on a USB flash drive.
• "Go to Hard drives/CD"
• "Add Hardfile" -> Set to DH0
• "..."
• ".." (Keep pressing that until you get to root directory)
• "media"
• "usb0"
• Select the hard drive image, and press ok.
• You can add another hard drive that will be dh1 .
13. Starting games from Amiga emulator.
• Select a program from "Floppy drives"
• Go to "Configurations" - Type in a name, description then save it,
and start the game.
◙ Retropie: Amiga Emulator Tutorial Link to Video
◙ Retropie: Amiga Emulator Hard Drive Mount and Game Configs Link to Video
Retroarch Amiga Emulator
To setup Retroarch for the Amiga emulator, you must do the following.
1. Copy the kickstart BIOS files into the retroarch systems folder.
The path is drive:\RetroArch\system .
2. Make a directory on your hard drive, and put your Amiga games on it.
This can be any directory. For example, d:\emulators\amiga\games .
3. Make a .m3u file for multiple floppy disks. You can do this by opening
notepad, and type in the contents on the game folder.
For example:
d:\emulators\amiga\games\A10 has the following disks
A-10 Tank Killer_Disk1.adf
A-10 Tank Killer_Disk2.adf
In the notepad, I will type
A-10 Tank Killer_Disk1.adf
A-10 Tank Killer_Disk2.adf
Then, go to "file" on the top left corner of notepad, and
"save as". Go to the directory where the game disks are, and
"save type as" all. Type in a name for the file, like A-10.m3u ,
don't forget to put .m3u as the extension file.
4. Go to your RetroArch directory, and start the Retroarch program.
5. In Retroarch, you have to download and load the Amiga emulator.
• Go to "Main Menu" - This is located on the left side of the screen.
• Go to "Load Core"
• Go to "Download Core"
• Find Commodore Amiga and select the emulator that you want.
For me, I selected Amiga (PUAE) emulator.
6. If you haven't already configured the controls, please do this first.
• Go to "settings"
• Go to "Input"
• Go to "Port 1 Controls" (Configure your joystick or gamepad there)
• In the Input menu, go to "hotkeys" and set a controller combo to
access the menu, like "start + select". This will enable you
to go into the options menu to configure the emulator.
7. Configure the Amiga emulator.
• Go to "Main Menu"
• Go to "Load Core"
• Select the Amiga (PUAE) emulator
• Go to "Start Core"
• After you started the emulator, go to to quick menu by
pressing "start + select" on your gamepad.
• In the quick menu, go to "Options", and go to "System".
In system, you can emulate different Commodore Amiga
computers, like a Amiga 500, Amiga 600, Amiga 1200, etc.
This is dependent on the firmware or kickstart bios files
you copied into the systems directory.
• In the system menu, you can change the settings for the
Automatic Floppy. Here you can associate the correct
floppy drive to the correct Amiga computer.
• Change speed of floppy disk drive. Go back to "Options", and go to
"Media". Here select "floppy speed", turbo is the best option.
After you finish, go back to "Quick Menu", and "Close Content".
8. In the main menu, you want to import all your Amiga games to Retroarch.
To do this click on "Import Content" -> "Manual Scan" -> "Content Directory", and
select the directory where your Amiga games are at. For me, it is D:\Emulator\Amiga\Games, but
for you it would be something else. "Scan this directory", and go to "System Name". Then,
select "Commodore Amiga", and "start scan".
9. You will see a Amiga icon on the right side of the menu, so you
can start the games in the Amiga icon.
10. When starting games, use the left of right mouse button to get the game to start.
If you configured your controller, you can only use one button, because the
Commodore Amiga controller had only one button.
◙ Retroarch: Amiga Emulator Tutorial Video Link to Video
FS-UAE Amiga Emulator Tutorial
FS-UAE Amiga Emulator Install Workbench 3.1 O.S. on a Hard Drive
AmigaDos Commands on Workbench 3.1