Amiga Emulators

[sifhamish]

Hi all, I'm trying to get an amiga emulator to work.

I'm currently using the WinUAE. Everytime I start it up I get an error regarding the ROM.

I have downloaded Kickstart v1.3 but can not seem to load the ROM.

Every help page I have seen simply says load the rom and shows a nice pic showing this. All the games are in adf format. When I load the disks it says the ROM is wrong.

Can anyone help me get my kickstart working with the ROM? or suggest a new way of doing this.

any help would be great. Cheers

[FatTrucker]

Presuming you have a working kickstart rom in the first place, WinUAE is one the most complicated emulators to setup mainly because there are so many options and there were so many different hardware configrations of Amiga.

The quickest and easiest solution to get gaming is to use the Lemonade Front End from Lemon Amiga.

It will setup and run WinUAE for you in about 2 minutes flat and has a nice FE with screenshots as well so you can click on the game you want to play from a list.

You can get it here. http://www.lemonamiga.com/ just click on the Lemonade tab at the top of the page.

[sifhamish]

Hey, thanks man, but I need to get a working kickstart ROM.
How do I get/buy one? any suggestions?

[FatTrucker]

The rules here prohibit us from discussing sites that provide material that is still subject to copyright (like kickstart roms).

They are reasonably easy to source with some creative searching however. A properly worded google should get you to a site hosting them.

Of course if you have the relevant Amiga models you can of course grab the roms from that but its a much longer way around it.

[Zach]

I have a great deal of respect for the old Commodore / Amiga community so I'm going to make a judgement call and allow that link to Lemon Amiga to stay.. However if someone else decides it needs to come down, then its going to have to be removed. Reason being they provide an easy means of getting to game download sites.

Personally most of that shit is nearing 25 - 30 years old anyway, and most developers are defunct, so I'm less inclined to censor it.

[FatTrucker]

Yeah I wasn't entirely sure whether it flew on the wrong side of the AUP or not. You still need to do a degree of rooting to get anywhere naughty from LA, they aren't strictly speaking a romsite or even an emulator site, more of an Archive site for the whole Amiga scene.

I'm pretty sure they have a large degree of support from most of the original publishers and devs on the stuff they do.

[retroguiden]

I have a great deal of respect for the old Commodore / Amiga community so I'm going to make a judgement call and allow that link to Lemon Amiga to stay.. However if someone else decides it needs to come down, then its going to have to be removed. Reason being they provide an easy means of getting to game download sites.

Personally most of that shit is nearing 25 - 30 years old anyway, and most developers are defunct, so I'm less inclined to censor it.

I understand how you reason on this subject but since they (Lemon Amiga) don't link to any games directly I think the link above should be in the clear. I mean, even Wikipedia links to sites with amiga games (and other platforms) and would you consider removing links to them (Wikipedia) too? I understand the line must be drawn somewhere but if sites like Lemon Amiga are on the wrong side, people really have to think things through before posting.

Now, on the main subject for this thread, I would like to point out that WinUAE has been improved when it comes to user friendliness. Having a lot of different options don't make it difficult per se, only the need to use them do. And I generally don't. Since it has a very good Quickstart function built into the emulator I think that WinUAE has come a long way.

Lemon Amiga is good as a db, but when it comes to functionality one should consider that it is discontinued and not a finished (version 1.0) program. Personally I've had more success with playing games through WinUAE's Quickstart function than through Lemon Amiga (Where I have trouble getting anything to work at the moment. And I consider myself an advanced user).

[Zach]

Be that as it may, there seems to be a gray area when it comes to sites who link to files, even if they aren't the direct hosts, they still provide access. Otherwise you could argue that we should be allowed to link to public/private trackers and on and on.

I know in the past some links have been removed because the sites linked to copyrighted stuff, however you have to keep in mind when it comes to Wikipedia they either

A) may not know and assume its legit to do it
B) may be linked to material whose copyright was relinquished or otherwise expires.
C) may be doing it with the permission of the original developer.

It's all a careful dance these days, and there is even some inconsistency in what some mods will consider enforceable vs others. But I digress. The link stays for now.

[THANAMELESS]

i disagree with what you guys are saying, because if you let one link go its hard to put the line somewhere without a lot of discussion. either put the links online without censor and if you have issues say they aren't hosted by you wich actually makes it partly legal, because look at google wich also will provide you with links, but with them its officialy ''without their notice'' wich would be really hard to say with such a small community, or don't let links in at all. there's a big chance somebody is gonna say that he want's to post atari roms, wich are also old, and refer to this topic, after that somebody's from nes will do that after that snes/genesis after that gba after that ds after that n64 after that psx and so on, so you are making up un needed and unwanted disscusions about what is allowed and what isn't, now in the end ofcourse you decide but it would be bad for our community (wich is kinda close i think) neither for the growing progress, thats why i personally reccommend you to delete any links... and also google it is a very usefull answer wich also provides without beeing illigal because we can never know if it's gonna work... google (or other searchmachine's) always work to find stuff you need. so there's no need to place links here...
(whoah long post)

[FatTrucker]

Its wholly a decision for the site moderators and admins rather than an issue for open debate.
The site rules are fairly clear on acceptable content, but occasionally you get a site that sits in a marginally grey area at which point its at the discretion of any mods or admins whether it stays or not.

Lemon Amiga doesn't host any breach of copyright material although it does have links to some other Amiga related sites which in turn can offer access to potentially infringing material. Bearing in mind you would need more mouse clicks and more searching to find such material via Lemon Amiga than you would with google and the fact that its an Amiga community fansite that has nothing to do with roms its not even in the same ballpark as offering rom links. The potential for possible access to infringing content however does mean its sitting firmly on the fence line which is why its at the discretion of the mods and admins. If they decide it needs to come down then it will.