Wednesday, December 04, 2002
I'm having someting of an emulator frenzy at the moment.Just for fun, I downloaded and installed a Mega Drive (Genesis) Emulator which runs brilliantly on Windows XP (very refreshing after all the ones that only seem to want to run under DOS), and spent several hours playing Sonic The Hedgehog with full sound, joypad control and everything. Then just for the hell of it, I grabbed some addon 32X bios files, and started playing the likes of Virtua Racing, Virtua Fighter and Star Wars Arcade. Much fun.
Anyway, that's no even the main story. While rummaging around online I found this site containing not only the UAE Amiga emulator, but also the kickstart rom files, and a complete set of Workbench installation files. Hah! Being a long time Amiga fan, I grabbed the lot and installed them.
It has to be said, even as someone who's forgotten more about the Amiga OS than most people ever knew, it was something of a pig to make this work at first, but I now have a clean installation of OS 3.1 up and running, and a copy of Directory Opus too, though with the differences in disk file formats, it's pretty much impossible for me to transfer all of my old Amiga software over to the pc, especially as my 1200 tower system appears to have died. However, I did manage to dig up an old backup CD of my system disk, which contains a lot of support files, libs and stuff, though the other backup CD from my Work drive was corrupted. Seems writable CDs don't stand the test of time too well.
Now, if I can just find something useful to do with the thing...
Labels: emulators
Steve 9:10 PM [+]
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