Amiga Emulation.

bigmike20vt · Monday at 22:51

is the Amiga really hard to emulate or something?

I know it has a few custom chips in it but at it's heart it's only a 7mhz 68000 processor in there.

I just put some games on my handheld, a device capable of ok Dreamcast emulator and nails PS1 level stuff.

Yes I realise it's not as simple as just that but I was shocked at how badly Amiga games run on it.
my other devices manage it ok,. inc my raspberry pi 3 but my Ambernic 40xxH can only manage about 75% speed.

or is there a setting I am. missing somewhere? Thanks.
(most games I can get surrogates from on other systems but there are a few games the Amiga is undoubtedly the best versions of (kick off 2, SWOS etc)

Armageus · Monday at 23:24

bigmike20vt said:
is the Amiga really hard to emulate or something?

Yes

bigmike20vt said:
I know it has a few custom chips in it but at it's heart it's only a 7mhz 68000 processor in there.

The custom chips or more specifically the timing between the CPU and custom chips is the biggest problem

bigmike20vt said:
Yes I realise it's not as simple as just that but I was shocked at how badly Amiga games run on it.
my other devices manage it ok,. inc my raspberry pi 3 but my Ambernic 40xxH can only manage about 75% speed.

The games I tried on my RG35xx Pro were the same, although I've not spent any time looking into it as yet.

bigmike20vt said:
or is there a setting I am. missing somewhere? Thanks.
(most games I can get surrogates from on other systems but there are a few games the Amiga is undoubtedly the best versions of (kick off 2, SWOS etc)

What os and cores are you using?

Noxia · 2026-01-20T09:00:51+0000

Sooo we can talk about emulation now? If that’s the case the sticky needs removing lol.

bigmike20vt · 2026-01-20T10:44:16+0000

oops sorry I didn't mean to fall foul of any rules. I thought emulation was ok just not piracy. if not then my bad but there are a lot of threads about these hand helds.
edit Technically Noxia is correct. sorry I have never noticed that sticky before.

hopefully mods allow a bit of flexibility so long as we don't take the .... after all a lot of the original hardware is failing now, tho some are making a comeback in a manner of speaking like the new c64 and the speccy I guess

Armageus · 2026-01-20T10:46:41+0000

Noxia said:
Sooo we can talk about emulation now?

Ish. As long as it's kept sensible there isn't a problem

Noxia · 2026-01-20T10:49:43+0000

bigmike20vt said:
oops sorry I didn't mean to fall foul of any rules. I thought emulation was ok just not piracy. if not then my bad but there are a lot of threads about these hand helds.
edit Technically Noxia is correct. sorry I have never noticed that sticky before

I wasn’t trying to get you in trouble just to clarify, it’s just that I thought it was as big a no-no as mentioning competitors and yet I’ve seen some things deleted but some things not so I genuinely wasn’t sure

bigmike20vt · 2026-01-20T10:53:15+0000

Armageus said:
Ish. As long as it's kept sensible there isn't a problem

I am using the official newest disk image supplied by Ambernic, which is already set up all bar your game images.
the cores included are
puae_libretto and uae4arm_libretro

the former I think seems to work a bit better and is the default. I have not looked to install any others yet.
I shall fiddle more and also have posted on the ambernic Reddit. if I get it working full speed I will post back incase it helps others

bigmike20vt · 2026-01-20T10:54:02+0000

Noxia said:
I wasn’t trying to get you in trouble just to clarify, it’s just that I thought it was as big a no-no as mentioning competitors and yet I’ve seen some things deleted but some things not so I genuinely wasn’t sure

no not at all, I would rather a heads up from a member rather than a slap down from a mod for breaking rules

I think Armageus is a mod so I shall proceed with caution.

Noxia · 2026-01-20T10:56:50+0000

bigmike20vt said:
no not at all, I would rather a heads up from a member rather than a slap down from a mod for breaking rules

I think Armageus is a mod so I shall proceed with caution.

You see that @Armageus? He’s doubting your credentials!

Sinbad2000 · 2026-01-20T11:02:54+0000

https://www.amigaforever.com/ - Decent amiga emulator in my experience.

m4cc45 · 2026-01-21T11:16:18+0000

Amiga Forever is just the legal ROMs really, I haven't used the latest version but it's just running WinUAE underneath it all which you can get yourself for free.

Amiga emulation is a bit of a pig to setup (especially if you've never used an Amiga before) but, once done, it's easy to use going forward. I'd really suggest YouTube and looking at some of the images that are available as it will give you far more insight.

M.

bigmike20vt · 2026-01-21T15:22:44+0000

interesting. I just watched a video with Amiga running full speed on an R36S . my lad has one of those so will give it a go on that. it should work ok on my ambernic as well as that is a more powerful machine .