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  1. Re:WINE == DEAD END? by JohnBE · · Score: 1 · on Two Helpings of WINE

    I'm not really sure of any documentation of emulation in itself but the following are free and fairly well documented:

    Bochs, the IA-32 x86 emulator, intereting because it really is a software PC.Unix Amiga Emulator and Windows Unix Amiga Emulator are both interesting because they are running totally alien machines. Incedently if you can get hold of the required Kickstart ROMS (very easy on Google allegedly), there are huge number of Amiga Games now legally in the public domain. Being a skinflint and an ex-Amiga owner this has saved me having to buy a PC game for a few months now.

    Anyway. Good luck.

  2. Lapsuus runs on WinUAE btw by Otis_INF · · Score: 4, Informative · on The Assembly In Review
    If you wonder how the winning demo will look like and you only have an old fart amiga500, dual boot in your dusty windows (you know, that OS you use to play that one game) and download WinUAE (a href="http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/">http://www.cod e poet.com/UAE/), get 'Amiga In A Box' (http://www.codepoet.com/UAE/), then grab some kickstart rom from a friendly source (search for 'kick31.rom' on google) and you're ready to go! unpack the .lha archive in a directory and add it as a harddrive to WinUAE, and start it. A friendly amigaOS shell will welcome you.

    After the rush and warm feelings you got inside by re-facing this screen of joy from the old days, go to the harddrive you assigned the lapsuus dir to (f.e. dh3:) and run the demo. Enjoy :)

  3. Re:Amiga&Floppy by Tassach · · Score: 2 · on Spying and Technology: Robert Philip Hanssen
    You heard correctly. The standard PC floppy controller is incapable of reading an Amiga diskette. Furthermore, the FDD controller on an Amiga computer can't use standard floppy drives. There is a product called the CatWeasel controller, which comes in several flavors. There are several versions which allow the various Amiga architectures to use a standard floppy drive, and can read & write almost any known floppy format. There is also an ISA Catweasel which will let you read Amiga disks from an x86 machine. It's a fairly expensive piece of hardware ($100 or more). CatWeasel is made by a German company; I believe the US distributer is www.softhut.com

    It's probably cheaper to find a used Amiga on ebay. Last time I checked, the going price for an A500 was around $20 + shipping. An Amiga is capable of reading & writing to 720K MS-DOS floppies - you can copy your amiga software over to 720k floppies and sneakernet it over to your PC. Another approach is to build yourself a null modem cable to connect your Amiga and PC via SLIP, PPP, or PLIP (if you want to use the parallel port). You will have to make the cable yourself - the Amiga uses a non-standard pinout on it's serial and parallel ports (Don't forget to hook up the ground!). I used a null-modem SLIP connection to copy floppy images over to my PC and burn them to a CD-ROM; it took a while but I only had to spend about $15 on the parts to make the cable.

    For amiga emulation under Linux (and BSD, and BeOs, etc.), use UAE or WinUAE if you are running Windows. If you want legal Amiga ROM images (and a lot more), get Amiga Forever from Cloanto. Illegal (or at least questionable) ROM images can be found easily enough with a Google search. (The proof is left as an exersize for the student.)

  4. Re:DirectX support by israfil_kamana · · Score: 1 · on Ask Kevin Lawton About Plex86

    The basic requirement for this would not be that someone add DirectX support to Plex86, but that:

    • someone write a VESA (preferably XVGA+ or better ;) emulated video hardware using DGA, DirectX or some other direct-to-hardware method on the host system
    • THEN write a Windows95/98/NT/2000 driver (Or X driver depending on guest system) for that emulated hardware that include direct-to-hardware support.
    I could see a lot of possibilities for passing through low-level 3D calls.

    This would also be the requirement on Xwindows, and Mesa would probably be a good package on which to base the 3D emulated hardware support.

    For the record, this is what UAE (Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) does. Basically it has a "UAE" graphics card, and a driver was written for the Picasso96 accelerated graphics replacement subsystem for AmigaOS that used this "hardware". On WinUAE this basically allowed me to run the AmigaOS in 1400x1050 resolution on Windows2000 (WinUAE hosts on DirectX) on my Dell laptop. Fun fun fun.

    Hmm. Perhaps, when the Plex86 folks are done, they can do Plex68K. There's a good 68K emulator in UAE, and Bernie Mayer wrote a patch for JIT compilation in UAE.

  5. Re:Palm and Open Source by Tassach · · Score: 1 · on Handspring Files For IPO
    OK... I was bad and didn't preview my post. This is the correct link for WinUAE, just in case any other ex-Amiga hackers give a fsck.


    "The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'

  6. Palm and Open Source by Tassach · · Score: 2 · on Handspring Files For IPO
    There isn't too much information in the article to get excited about, or much that is interest to the /. crowd. So, in the interests of providing some (hopefully) interesting content...

    For anyone interested in developing apps for PalmOS, there is a GPL'ed Palm emulator; which borrows code from other neat GPL'ed projects - UAE: The Ultimate Amiga Emulator and WinUAE (the windoze port).
    "The axiom 'An honest man has nothing to fear from the police'

  7. Emulate :-) by philj · · Score: 1 · on Amiga - Back From the Dead?

    For those who can't wait and want to play their old games/demos, get UAE.
    It's cool! I just love watching those old demos - State of the art was a classic!

    Oh, and there's WinUAE, too.