newb wanting to set up WinUAE and relive the Amiga days

wiser3

I’m getting REALLY nostalgic and want to go back to the good’ol Amiga days. I don’t have any working Amiga hardware or floppies anymore, but I have my A1200’s entire HD backed up in LHA files and want to get it and those games I remember so well up and running again.

My PC to do this on:
Windows XP SP2
P4 2Ghz
1GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card

Here’s my plan and questions:
1. Buy Amiga Forever from Cloanto and install it.
2. Download and install lemonade from lemonamiga.com.
3. The TOSEC collection.
- a. Where do I get it from?
- b. Does it come with installation instructions?
- c. Are there other games collections I should be aware of?
4. WHDLoad
- a. where do I get it
5. Can I simply set up a HD with WinUAE and unarchive my lha files to recreate my old A1200 config? I’ll probably have specific questions on this when the time comes.
6. PC joysticks
- a. What should I look for when selecting a PC joystick/gamepad?
- b. Any model recommendations?
- c. Can I hook up two joysticks? I love multiplayer games.
7. I’m sure I’ll like it, so donate to WinUAE and Lemonamiga.
8. What else do I need to know, get or do?
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HoraceAndTheSpider

eekk! a lotta stuff to go over!

1. Buy Amiga Forever from Cloanto and install it.

if you like. there are alternatives however. (dumping roms from real amigas etc) and just downloading winuae from the website.

2. Download and install lemonade from lemonamiga.com.

personally i'm holding out on it supporting HD... but it's personal prefernce and i'd certainly recommend it to those new to amiga emulation

3. The TOSEC collection.
- a. Where do I get it from?

fileshare, or planetemu.net have a version of it hosted as individual ADF files.

- b. Does it come with installation instructions?

it's just a collection of Amiga Disk images.... particuarly well-labelled. installation is "put file in adf folder" Laughing

- c. Are there other games collections I should be aware of?

i like the pre-installed WHDLoad games collections KillerGorilla was doing, although his site is down at the moment i believe.

4. WHDLoad
- a. where do I get it

www.whdload.de

5. Can I simply set up a HD with WinUAE and unarchive my lha files to recreate my old A1200 config? I’ll probably have specific questions on this when the time comes.

yes you can. have a search on this forum, i've definately helped explain how to set up HD emualtion and WHDload games before, and i'm sure a few others have gone over the topic before.

6. PC joysticks
- a. What should I look for when selecting a PC joystick/gamepad?

something you feel comfy with. some people like real amiga joysticks in their PCs, some people like the competition pro style USB ones.

- b. Any model recommendations?

i have a USB connector which takes two PS2 pads. it's lovely.

see here!

- c. Can I hook up two joysticks? I love multiplayer games.

yep, anything that shows in windows. another reason why i like the above!

7. I’m sure I’ll like it, so donate to WinUAE and Lemonamiga.

i'm sure you will!

8. What else do I need to know, get or do?

have fun, kick around and talk amiga stuff with people here. help's always available.

good luck and happy gaming!
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wiser3 · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:03 am Post subject:

Clicked an ad on this site which led me here:
http://www.amigagames.co.uk/GamesINDEX.htm

5000 games on 3 DVD's. Sounds good. Should i get this instead of Amiga Forever? or perhaps in addition to Amiga Forever.
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HoraceAndTheSpider · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 3:38 am Post subject:

i'd definately say no! rip off merchants making money of software that isnt theres to be selling!

it's on the web and it's pretty easy to find. www.planetemu.net is a good place to start, and there's no reason why you couldnt be up and running in a matter of minutes, rather than waiting for that to arrive.
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a_three_headed_monkey · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:

Right, that's the way Horace would do it. I would do it in a very similar way, a bit like this....

Download Winuae 1.2 from here. Install it.

Next you need to aquire the Amiga kick roms. (i.e, roms that tell Winuae to behave like a A500, A600 etc..) If you PM me, I can probably help you out there, tell you where to find them all.

When you have Winuae installed & have the correct kick roms you should Download Lemonade & the screenshot packs from this site. If you downloaded the screenshot packs you need to open the zip folders before continuing. important...These screenshots must be extracted into the screenshots folder that Lemonade creates in order for Lemonade to find them. These screenshots must all be kicking around loose inside the folder, NOT inside seperate folders in the folder. Next, simply install Lemonade as instructed in the install wizard & insert the kick roms when & where prompted. When finished, Lemonade will connect to this site to update the games encyclopedia. There's no point having an empty encyclopedia now is there? At some point a message will pop up as if you've done somthing wrong, don't worry, this always happens. There should be an option to ignore. It says this is not recommended, so what! Click it, you'll be fine.

Next you're going to want some games to play. These are going to be disk images called ADF's. (Amiga Disk Files) You'll find these here & here. You should add these links to your favourites, you're going to need them a lot. When you've downloaded some "disks" from these links you can open Lemonade & set the game you've aquired as playable. Insert the "disks" you've downloaded into the correct "drives" in Lemonade & click "set as playable" & you are ready to go!

Last but not least, you wanted advice on joysticks. Believe me, this IS the place to go... Here!.
These joysticks kick ass! Here is a link to a thread on this site where I am talking about them...
here!

Hope that helps, enjoy! Thumbs Up

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wiser3 · Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:41 am Post subject:

Thought i'd give a progress update.

I got WinUAE 1.2 up and running.
Why is everyone recomending 1.2 when the latest is 1.3.2?
http://www.winuae.net/

Got some roms and WB3.1.

Got some games, played too much Arkanoid. Oh well, it was time well wasted.

Downloaded/installed lemonade and it's screenshots. I didn't have lemonade scan my adf files yet. I plan on downloading a lot of stuff and want to arrange then in subdirs of a,b,c,etc.... Plus i wanted to play with WinUAE and it's settings.

That brings up a question, where in WinUAE can i set it to open in a window instead of full screen?

Next up:
i really need to get joysticks
download more games
set up an Amiga HD and restore my A1200 backup
beg for continued lemonade developement
find time to have a life away from the computer
make donations to WinUAE and lemonade
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