New Amiga emulator supports 64-bit Vista (Non Free)

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" If you're longing to relive the glory days of the Amiga, there's a new way to do it. Cloanto has completely revamped its Amiga emulation software, resulting in Amiga Forever 2008, which the company calls the "most significant upgrade ever released" in the emulator series.

Highlights of the new release include full Windows Vista x86 and x64 support as well as a new player interface that lets users select and play games. The player supports dual screens, multiple emulation sessions, saving emulation session states, undoing disk writes, and double-clicking or drag-and-dropping downloaded disk images. Not only that, but Cloanto says Amiga Forever 2008 more than triples featured content, as well.

Amiga Forever 2008 is available in three flavors. A $29.95 "Value Edition" comes with 50 games and 50 demos, while $10 more will get you the "Plus Edition" with over 100 included games and over 100 demos. Both of those are digital downloads, but die-hard Amiga nostalgics can cough up $49.95 for the "Premium Edition" CD that comes with two video DVDs about the Amiga platform. "


http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/14911
 
Nope..I can only shoot down other's posts..not post original information of my own...

What do you take me for, a useful contributor to the forum? Madness!
 
lol at you 2.

Sounds good, guess it all depends on what games are included and where the others (ie you guys) are getting your games lol.

Are Amiga games abondaware yet? Dont think they are.

If that one for $49.99 comes with all the old top titles then it could be cool, Miss playing the likes of supercars II and such.
 
A lot of Amiga games are freeware or shareware actually.

Including the (joint) best Amiga game ever: Extreme Violence

Alternatively, most games I played 'back then' were cover disks... Which I still have access to the physical copies of.
 
Aekeron said:
A lot of Amiga games are freeware or shareware actually.

Including the (joint) best Amiga game ever: Extreme Violence

Alternatively, most games I played 'back then' were cover disks... Which I still have access to the physical copies of.
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this is correct. if you follow the links from the winAUE site, you'll find a lot of publishers put their games up for download. even alien breed!
 
Also, the last version of Cloantos Amiga Forever was garbage. The last package included UAE and WinUAE for playing games on anyway. The only thing you are paying for is the rom(s). (Not game roms btw, Proper roms :)) Which, if you have an Amiga, you can extract anyway.

Its not difficult to get hold of just about any Amiga game you wish, and as others have said, a lot of them are now legal.

I have a disc called Amiga Tribute II, which was created by a guy over at the English Amiga Board. It puts the Cloanto stuff to shame.

At times, I miss my miggy. :)

But thanks for letting us know Helmutcheese. :p
 
It does use WinUAE that's the first thing.

The second thing is it is actually bootable meaning that it runs a linux session then the emulator on top of that rather than installation on a real PC.

It also comes with something called Amiga Explorer which allows you transfer disk images / rom images over a null-modem cable (quite slow but if you need to get workbench on the Amiga and your disks are knackered it's an easyish way).

It's good for newbs who have a hard time with emulation. You also then legally own the roms to your amiga and can use them legally with emulation something you can't claim if you just have winuae and no real amiga.



M.
 
Aekeron said:
If you don't have a real amiga you should hang your head in shame anyhow! :)
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Very true! I have an Amiga 1200 (Towered) and an Amiga 2000. Looking to get an Amiga 4000 sooner or later (probably later with the costs of them at the moment).

In fact I play Sensi Soccer, KO2, Turrican 2, etc. most days when I get bored of the PC. Nice to sit in another room playing on games which have gameplay!



M.
 
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