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What on earth does it mean for the program to "know" something?

It means that Guru has Meditated on some value long enough for Amiga's karma to spent and it to be released from bounds of matter and the cycle of manufacturing and recycling into a virtual Nirvana as an emulator.

Sometimes it's Pepper II/Ms. Pacman/Galaga via M.A.M.E, other days it's Dungeon (Zork), other days it's firing up WinUAE and playing Mind Walker.

You may want to try reading them back on your PC before getting rid of them, in case you've got two PC floppy drives lying around...

See ADFRead from WinUAE (any recent Windows version) or Disk2FDI (Windows 9x only, but better disk format support).

It's a bog standard PC. I guess I can say that new Amigas are available if I put a sticky "Amiga" label on it. It's even backwards compatible with the old software.

Vista's security is managed by an Amiga emulator?? No wonder the requirements are so high!

I'm 21, and even I can remember the old Amiga's. Was the first machine I ever used... then there was MS-DOS (how the hell was that better?? The Text-To-Speech in Amiga Workbench 1.3 (1985) rivals that of Windows 98 (+10 years later)). I keep the old AmigaDOS booklet in my bookshelf next to Windows 2000 Administration and Linux reference manuals

I loved it, unfortunately my dad (of who's it was) threw it out a long time ago.

Hell, I even put it on my resume that I used one. I'm surprised I got the job, I was just fooling around!

As for emulators, try UAE or WinUAE

Emulate an Amiga 3000? I'd like to believe you, but that particular machine is notoriously difficult to achieve anything near accurate emulation. Can I ask what you would use?

WinUAE ( http://www.winuae.net/ ) does the job well. I'm not sure how well the chipset emulation is these days, but the emulated CPU speed is way faster than the fastest 68060 Amigas that ever existed.

Download win UAE and CC64.

There were some great two/multi players

Wizball
Bruce Lee
Defender of the Crown
Mario Bros [orignal version!]

Hope this helps!

I used too love the amiga. And still do too some degree. And still use some of the tools and games it had too offer.

If you want too try how the amiga was( or try again) I suggest you try the amiga emulator at:
http://www.winuae.net/ [winuae.net]
It pretty much emulate the amiga perfectly.
If you don't have a old amiga it might be hard to find the ROM's needed too get it too run, but they are out there.

If you really want too see what the amiga was capable of try:
http://aiab.emuunlim.com/ [emuunlim.com] (amiga in a box) which enhance the workbench in ways you newer thought was possible.

This forum is most likely the best place too find anything amiga legacy:
http://eab.abime.net/ [abime.net]

Last year my Yamaha DX7 music keyboard battery died. I didn't know it at the time but when the battery dies, all programmed sound patches and modes are erased, even the factory presets. No problem, I had made a backup years ago with DX Android on the Atari ST so I could just restore from those backups. I got the battery replaced but when I got the Atari ST out of the closet it would not boot. I guess I could have searched ebay for a replacement but instead I got the Atari ST emulator, STeem from http://www.atari.st/ and was able to restore the patches from the backups using it.

I have emulators for most of the computers I had previously owned. I still have the software, just would not have a way to play them anymore if it wasn't for emulators. Some of the ones I use besides the Atari ST that I had previously mentioned are:
Amiga http://www.winuae.net/
Atari 800 http://www.concentric.net/~Twist/atari800win/
DOS Games http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/
Another Atari ST Emulator http://sourceforge.net/projects/winston/

But, after having begain using Windows then .NET was released I came to the simple conclusion that WinUAE is so much better than plain UAE it's almost funny.
Naturally, this is intended for games and not serious work, but anyway; I recomend anyone that runs Windows to try WinUAE and AmigaOS with last release of Directory Opus, wow, what a desktop!

For a while I ran more AmigaOS than BSD(or the Windows system used to run WinUAE), which is strange since I've been a BSD-only user since '94.
AmigaOS with Directory Opus is the only GUI enviroment I've ever tried that did feel natural.

If anyone could make a LIGHTWEIGHT clone of this to run on my BSD boxes (that is without the use of X.org, GTK/QT) I'd be very happy. I run zsh only!

All this probably sounds strange, hell, it sounds strange to me too. I've tested KDE which was nice once you trimed it down, and GNOME which I didn't like at all, but all of them are dead in usability and joyful experience compared to the ancient system.

Too bad there are very few apps; and no memory protection, on the other hand I only had one guru meditation in about 3 months.

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.

If you're willing to settle for Scorched Tanks instead of Scorched Earth, try WinUAE. You can get the Scorched Tanks disks almost completely legally from the Back2Roots project.

Check out UAE (Unix Amiga Emulator) or WinUAE and you should still be able to run most of these demos. Considering how complex the Amiga is, UAE gives amazing results.

Y'know, you can always emulate the Amiga. Emulators such as UAE/WinUAE and Fellow do a fair job of running old Amiga stuff on a multitude of platforms. You can also buy them relatively cheap on an auction site, since Amigas aren't not worth a hell of a lot as collectables yet. (I picked up an A600 for £20.)

Try WinUAE for Windows or UAE for Linux. And for demos Back2Roots is a good source.