Emulation/Amiga

A real Amiga 500 computer. Most components used by the Amiga have since become obsolete and discontinued, making their use and upkeep increasingly difficult. Emulation of Amiga hardware is one potential solution for preserving this historically important computer and it's software.

About Amiga

Amiga was a series of high end multimedia computers which were popular from 1985 to the early 1990's, before the original line was discontinued in 1996. Due to their high end graphics capabilities, a number of games were developed for them. A few emulators were actually written to run on the Amiga itself. A number of programmers cut their teeth on the Amiga, which was perhaps a factor which lead to a number of high quality emulators and software support.

Amiga Emulators

UAE

UAE is a common emulator of Amiga software. UAE is free and open source software. It has almost any feature one would need when emulating Amiga hardware, and a number of versions of UAE exist for different platforms.

Other

Fellow is an older Amiga emulator, which was common on older hardware.

System Files

Most Amiga emulators require an Amiga operating system and a boot ROM to run original Amiga software.

Amiga Forever

A legal compilation of the Amiga operating system versions can be had by obtaining the proprietary Amiga Forever package. This is a commercial package from the rights holders which is available fairly cheaply digitally, or a bit more for a physical copy. It contains a number of operating system and boot ROM versions, as well as a number of games and demos.

Alternative Operating Systems

A number of alternative operating systems have been developed to run on Amiga hardware, some of which may also run on Amiga emulators.

Alternatives to Amiga Emulation

A Minimig reimplements Amiga hardware on an FPGA.

Contemporary hardware reimplementations of the Amiga exist, such as the Minimig.