Emulators for Amiga

valdermar · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: Emulators for Amiga

Are there any emulators that run on amiga for other systems?

Thrashie · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 5:52 pm Post subject:

there are some emus for the c64 and 1 for vic20 here
the 2nd one on the list isnt really an emulator.. totally forgotten about that silly thing.. had some laughs with it 20 years ago Laughing

also a spectrum emu on a coverdisk found here

akabei · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject:

There are quite a few, but I can't really tell if they are any good and I guess some of them won't work on a 68k Amiga.
http://www.zophar.net/amiga-emulators.html

Acid · Amiga Junkie Joined: 02 Nov 2010 Age: 36 Posts: 419

There's some reasonable nes and gameboy ones, search on aminet.

MIK UK · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:09 am Post subject:

add the SID.lib, that's emulation right there and runs on a stock Amiga. A copy of Hippo Player or something like that. All fit's on a floppy. Wink

As you would expect I can do a lot more with my specs below...

Magic 64, Commodore 64 emu and I have an official registered key for it. Made my day when I got hold of that at World of Amiga 99.

CP4, nice Plus/4 C16 emulator. The very one I used to take all the screen shots with for C16/Plus4 ClassiX on emucamp. The whole site was made on my Amiga in fact lol.

You can get very good ZX Spectrum emulators to Amstrad CPC ones. I can even run Ghouls''n"Ghosts arcade machine using MAME, very playable in 4 colors lol. Runs faster and 256 colours using a Picasso IV with an 060 tho. Power PC's no problem maxed out and many, many more.

Overall 8bit machines runs nice on my rig, but stuff like MAME is pushing it a bit too much.
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lifeschool · Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:15 pm Post subject:

And lets not forget PC Task and Shapeshifter.

Graham Humphrey · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 8:35 am Post subject:

It does depend on your setup as to how well things run but Spectrum emulators generally run pretty well - in particular I like the excellent ASp which is relatively feature-packed but does need a reasonably powerful setup to run smoothly (it's totally system-friendly but this does seem to push the requirements up - i.e. you need to run a patch on AGA to make the graphics appear correctly and AHI has to be installed for sound) - but on an '040 it's great. There are plenty of older 48K-only emulators that are less demanding though.

Also try the excellent AmiMasterGear for Master System/Game Gear emulation - that performs pretty well also.
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Rekrul · Groupie Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 178

Back when the A500 was my main computer, I tried a few different emulators.

For the C64, I tried A64 and some other one. Neither one worked very well. I couldn't get either to run more than a couple commercial games.

I downloaded an Atari ST emulator, but beyond showing the desktop, I could never get it to do anything.

PC Task would play some old CGA games, although they ran pretty slowly.

I had the most luck with ZX Spectrum emulators. I forget the name now, but I had a 48K one that ran all the games I tried on it, however some of the games ran fairly slowly. Things like Star Strike. As I recall, it loaded 'snapshots' rather than emulating a disk or tape drive.