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WinUAE has become overly complex, I agree. I once wrote an Amiga emulation tutorial for OSNews.com, step by step, but since then so many new features and options have been added (even AmigaOS4 for classic PPC upgraded amigas!).

The solution I think is to get Cloanto's Amiga Forever package instead, it includes pre-installed scripts for games/workbench, ROMs and a GUI frontend:
https://www.amigaforever.com/

Without knowing anything about the particulars of this solution, a likely approach nowadays would be to take an existing emulator writen in C/C++ and compile it to JavaScript using Emscripten.

Emscripten produces JavaScript compliant with the asm.js profile, which is a subet of JavaScript that is easily optimized by the browser JS engine, allowing in-browser performance on the order of half of native speed. Given the age of the emulated hardware, this slowdown is not a problem.

You still have to emulate actual I/O devices in plain HTML+JavaScript, which for these presumably amounts to mapping JavaScript input events to a virtual keyboard, and using a HTML Canvas element to emulate the display. Even joysticks and gamepads can be supported in bleeding edge browsers.

TL;DR: By standing on the shoulders of giants, and adding a bunch of glue code. :-)

You can - Populous is available here (with the permission of the publisher), and a number of Amiga emulators are also available there. If you don't have a legal set of ROMs and Kickstart/Workbench disks, I would recommend Amiga Forever, which is not expensive and will have everything you need.

I'm not sure about where to get Amiga Populous legally, but you CAN buy an emulator: http://www.amigaforever.com/

Of course you could just download WinUAE by itself, but Amiga Forever includes licensed ROM and Workbench disk files for most versions of AmigaOS. It's also got a wizard for setup; handy if you're not used to fiddling with emulators. WinUAE has a lot of obscure, arcane, and weird settings. (Amigas had a lot of obscure, arcane, and weird hardware to emulate.)

If you just want the original Populous and don't much care that it's the Amiga version specifically, GOG.com has the PC port of the original game for $6.

The Playstation game was a later sequel, not a port of the original. Give the GOG version a shot.

You can buy licenses at

http://www.amigaforever.com/sy...

You can also buy legit ROM licenses for Android based emulators at

https://play.google.com/store/...

The open-source AmigaOS-alike named AROS includes their own ROM equivalents now as well. (Be careful! WinUAE has old ROM included, Aros Vision needs newer ones (included in directiry “boot” of the distribution))

http://www.natami-news.de/html...

Rather than spend $350 on a case containing a PC motherboard with no memory, no CPU, and no disk, I feel I'd get a much better "Amiga experience" by buying an Amiga Forever CD for $30 or so and running it on my existing machine.

For the era 1985 to 95, almost every game looks and plays better Via the Amiga version.

True, but IIRC the only way to legally emulate an Amiga is to buy Cloanto's Amiga Forever, since your Amiga emulator will need a Kickstart ROM to run, and Cloanto holds the license to those. Whereas DOSBox is 100% free software.

I use E-UAE, in combination with the licensed Kickstart/Workbench and key files from Amiga Forever and Hi Toro as a GUI (can't seem to link to Hi-Toro directly - just click the tab after following that link). Great for those days when it just has to be a game of Paradroid 90...

Cheers,
Ian

What about this?
Amiga had a tradition of animation and color fonts since the 1980s.

I'm not sure how the old stuff would have been emulated... but sure, that could all be emulated. Amiga emulators abound, and they're pretty good. I usually recommend Amiga Forever, which includes emulator, many ROM images, and other goodies in the same package. Run this on a modern PC and it's the fastest Amiga ever, by far. There's a low cost downloadable version, and several options on DVD.

68K emulation built-in on an AmigaOS of 1995 or so would probably have been done more like the 68K emulation in MacOS, so you could mix and match PPC and 68K binaries, libraries, etc. That would have been an effective way to get to full PPC code without the need to have it all ported before testing could begin. If you did it today, it might make sense to run a full "boxed" emulation like Amiga Forever. Either way, this proves the concept of Amiga emulation.

There have also been projects aimed at re-implementing Amiga hardware, such as Minimig (designed by Dennis van Weeren), which basically gives you an A500 in a Xylinx Spartan chip. He's even duplicated the resistor-ladder DACs of the A500's "VIDIOT" hybrid device :-)

If you've got a PC that's newer than 10 years old or so, you can also do it for $30, and save some desk space in the process. :-)

I loved my Amiga. It made working with a computer fun and exciting! Bit for bit it was faster and more capable than an PC or Apple or Mac my friends had in the 80's. It was so far ahead of everyone else that it took MS 10 more years to even start coming close (Win 95). As a result it's been impossible for me to be impressed by anything MS does...

Anyway, I could go on for hours about Amiga and how it would have changed the world if the oil baron who bought it out, bled it dry and illegally bankrupted it for his own profit hadn't gotten involved, but I originally started this post to share the link to the most "Official" Amiga Emulator around:
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Amiga Forever - Amiga Hardware/Software Emulator
http://www.amigaforever.com/

It comes with several actual Amiga Kickstart ROM images as well as Workbench OS images and a huge collection of Amiga software and Games to play with! Plus, many more features that can make it easier to use and more fun even than using the original hardware. And it's cheap enough to buy on a lark. I would recommend it to anyone who has any fond memories of their Amiga. Oh, also, I might as well link to the same companies Commodore 64 Emulator package, which I also highly recommend:
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C64 Forever - Commodore 64 System Emulator, also emulates : PET 2001, CBM 3032, CBM 4032, CBM 8032, VIC 20, CBM 610, C16, Plus/4 and C128
http://www.c64forever.com/

Enjoy!! :D

If you still have one of your old Commodore 64 disk drives then you can cable the drive to your PC and create images of the C-64 disks and use them in an emulator.

http://sta.c64.org/xcables.html

There are options for your Amiga floppies as well:

http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/3-118.html

You can get a good Amiga emulator at Amiga forever. You can also get the original version of Defender of the Crown for free at Cimemaware. Event the sound works, everything just like I remember it.

I dont care what anybody thinks. I love the Amiga, and it was a sad day when I had to give it up because it was not keeping pace with the rest of the world.

Awe inspiring games came out of that machine, Out Of this World, and Another World all the stuff from Delphine Software for that matter. To this day I think about how those games were designed, and it still effects me on a basic level as I work on my multimedia projects.

All I got to say is keep the Amiga posts coming I love to listen to peoples version of the days of old. And down with the naysayers, you will never understand the power of the dark side my padawan learners!

http://www.amigaforever.com/ Biatches! :)

"Yeah, they had a ton of celebrity endorsements for the Amiga back in the day..."

Well by the time Little Richard and the Pointer Sisters got involved it was more like celebrity whore endorsements. I doubt Little Richard ever used an Amiga.

The launch with Andy Warhol creating a portrait of Debbie Harry using a digitizer and an early Amiga art program was pure class though.

I remember being pissed at Commodore for the crap marketing they did on the Amiga in the late '80s. The premium edition of Amiga Forever includes a DVD with a video of Jay Miner (after he left Commodore) at a user group fielding questions about how crap those commercials were. Well worth the money for old Commodore junkies, it includes the "Death Bed Vigil" video of the last day at Commodore US.

http://www.amigaforever.com/

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It actually ran something orginally called AmigaDOS, but eventually renamed AmigaOS. AmigaDOS was the name of the part that handled, not surprising, the disk subsystems.

Here's a very good description : http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-108.html

-James.

I know this will probably hurt your feelings, but anime has never been "in" in America. Sorry, but it's true. There is a specific sub-sub-culture of nerds that are the consumers for anime in the US. It's not even the entire nerd culture, if you can call it that.

It's about like saying the Amiga is a popular computing platform because there are people like this.

"If that miggy ever dies for good, we'll have to rewrite them in bash, and that will take a couple of weeks to translate I expect."

Nah. Just run an Amiga emulation box and keep going:

http://www.amigaforever.com/

Great idea! We can dedicate chips to graphics coprocessing, sound tasks, network relating things, input/output. I hope they build this soon!

They did.

You can't read Amiga-disks on a regular pc-drive. You simply can't emulate an Amiga-drive through software.
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There is an officially liscenced amiga emulator package. For $30 you get a suite of emulators, a bunch of apps, and the AOS 1.3 and 3.1 roms.

You can get it from http://amigaforever.com/.

Google reveals that this has been done already before. Check out http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/5-105.html, for example.

I learn everything I need to know at my job on the internet.

I prefer WinUAE for all my Amiga needs. :-)

Works perfectly fine with lots of games and even demos functional to 100%. It's still in development (last update just two months ago) and contains numerous features to extend the OS with, although it still feels and functions probably more like the Amiga you came to know than this "AmigaOS 4.0". You can even choose which ROM to use (which aren't freely available, but sold by the old Amiga software company Cloanto) to make it anything from an Amiga 500 with Kickstart 1.3 to an Amiga 1200 with AGA and Kickstart 3.0!

Best of all, the emulator itself is free, fast (or emulates the speed an Amiga would have if you wish), and can be run like a regular program on your existing partition where floppy disks are just simple Megabyte-sized image files.

WinUAE is based on UAE which is open source software, with downloadable binaries for Linux.

An OS of interest might be AROS with a goal to be a full-blown AmigaOS 3.x compatible OS. However, I have a feeling you'll have less problems with the emulator.

Not quite as newsworthy, but I thought it might be worth mentioning that Cloanto recently released the latest version of the 'Amiga Forever' package (version 6), priced at $60. In a nutshell, it emulates the 'classic' Amigas on standard PC hardware (particularly Windows, but also Mac OS X and GNU/Linux), and also provides the latest Amiga OS3.9 software.

For those who are at all interested in the Amiga, it's well worth a look:
http://www.amigaforever.com
http://www.ann.lu/comments2.cgi?view=1082056810&ca tegory=news&start=1&24

What does this mean for Cloanto's Amiga Forever? do they still have the rights to redistribute the old OSes and Kickstarts?

Also, KMOS, Inc., seems to be a new company, which aquired Itec, LLC, who was in agreement with Amiga, Inc.

KMOS seems to be creating a website at this time.
Apparently KMOS's website

You can get legal copies of the Kickstart ROM images as part of the Amiga Forever package.