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Amiga 500 Emulation Arrives on Dreamcast

Posted by Zonk on from the this-has-a-point-really dept.

wraggster writes "Building on his previous work, Chui has taken another step for the Dreamcast community by releasing the first Amiga 500 emulator for the Dreamcast."

29 comments

  1. Grrr! Arrrg! by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mmm... Dead systems...

    Why not emulate another dead system on the emulated Amiga? ;-)

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    1. Re:Grrr! Arrrg! by ArmorFiend · · Score: 1
      Why not emulate another dead system on the emulated Amiga?


      Good idea, now if someone will just write a Dreamcast emulator for Amiga, I can use my dreamcast to play ... dreamcast games!
      /me puts pinky to corner of mouth like Dr Evil
    2. Re:Grrr! Arrrg! by TechnoWeeniePas · · Score: 2, Informative

      Hate to tell you this but there are 5 out there already:

      DreamSpec by BigBoy
      ZXishSpectrum by Ishmair
      Spectrum128K by Reaper
      DC Speccyal K by _Tyrell_
      fbzxDC by Ian Michael

    3. Re:Grrr! Arrrg! by fm6 · · Score: 1
      I can use my dreamcast to play ... dreamcast games!
      Or you could if there were any...
  2. A lesson to modern programmers by zouic · · Score: 1

    I just dusted off my Dreamcast yesterday... I find it amazing what can be done on such simple hardware. I mean, only 200 MHz, 16 megs, no hard drive. When programming and designing systems, simple is often the key to stability.

    just a diversion :S

  3. Nice by FullMetalAlchemist · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not for serious work?

      The 040 emulation, with JIT enabled, on a suitably fast processor, will blow the fuck out of any real 0x0 processor. Especially if you can use Picasso96 video modes.

  4. Retro-computing by xtermin8 · · Score: 1

    How many /.ers out there have eagerly installed software out of nostalgia, only to be a little dissappointed: "I forgot how much this sucked!" I get a bigger kick out of resurrecting old hardware, but maybe that's just me.

  5. Cool... by JPyObjC+Dude · · Score: 1

    There was one awesome game I was totally addicted to on Amiga. You drove a hot rod car around a track elevated in the air with jumps and bot cars.

    The physics were scary good (for the time).

    Anybody remember this game?

    1. Re:Cool... by bloo9298 · · Score: 1

      Stunt Car Racer.

    2. Re:Cool... by dchamp · · Score: 1

      Ah. That would be Stunt Car Racer?
      -- Former Amigoid

    3. Re:Cool... by JPyObjC+Dude · · Score: 1

      I wonder if the guy who wrote this is related to the Driv3r developers. I sense similar levels of passion when it comes to physics.

      Very nice game!

    4. Re:Cool... by joper90 · · Score: 1

      yep.. stunt car racer... used to play with my brother.. we would wear a bmx helmet, and if you grinded down the edge of the track your head would be voilently shaken by the other person, and if you fell off we hit each other round the head with a cricket bat.
      haha.. oh to be kids again..

    5. Re:Cool... by Jarlsberg · · Score: 1
      Ah, Stunt Car Racer. It even holds up to this day - it was an amazing game :).

      Geoff Crammond (creator of the original) announced last year he was working on Stunt Car Racer Pro together with developer Lost Toys. Haven't heard any info about it since, but I hope it comes to pass. It would be awesome to get an update to this game.

  6. Amiga Emulation for palm by greywire · · Score: 1

    I'm still hoping someone will port uae to the palm. I see no reason why my clie, with a 200+ Mhz CPU and color display, can't emulate an Amiga, especialy considering that palms had 68k CPU's (coldfire) and I assume now have emulation for 68k already.

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    1. Re:Amiga Emulation for palm by G-funk · · Score: 1

      A 200mhz palm emulating an amiga? Funniest. Post. Evar. In order to emulate all the funky custom chips in an amiga properly, you're looking at a helluva lot more than 200mhz. UAE needs about 800mhz to do it properly, and it's been in development for about 8 years.

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    2. Re:Amiga Emulation for palm by greywire · · Score: 1

      800mhz? You dont need that much to emulate an A500. I ran winuae just fine on a 360Mhz celeron way back when (shortly before overclocking it to 550mhz :).

      The dreamcast has a 200Mhz cpu. Granted I'm sure it's better at 200Mhz than the arm/xscale at 200mhz. But it's close. UAE started back when PC's were 100Mhz, so it's just about the right time to get it going on PDA's...

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  7. Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator by julie-h · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are into Amiga music, you should check out UADE!! It supports more than 150 exotic formats, and is Open Source =)

  8. Wow! by base3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One dead platform emulates another. IIRC, the Dreamcast also runs BSD. A regular festival of electronic rigor mortis.

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  9. cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cool...I'm going out right now to buy a Dreamcast...oh, wait....

  10. Has to be said by MilenCent · · Score: 1

    Now it's emulating an Amiga, and it still can't emulate a SNES at full speed.

    Before anyone chime in again with why, yep, it's because of all the special hardware. Also, the Atari ST and Amiga emulators don't have sound, while SNES emulation on a DC with sound is at pretty good speed, so it's not quite the same thing after all.

  11. Directory Opus in 2004 by dstillz · · Score: 1

    I don't know if you know this or not, but you can still get a Directory Opus environment. I use it on a daily basis on my XP laptop.

    The original developers make Directory Opus for Windows.
    http://www.gpsoft.com.au/

    There's a project that has forked the DO4 code and maintains the AmigaOS port.
    http://dopus.free.fr/index.html

    The people who maintain the Amiga port have compiled a list of commercial and F/OS clones/ports.
    http://dopus.free.fr/lookalike.html

  12. Nice! by standsolid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think we are all breathing a sigh of relief. Finally we have the Amiga 500 on the dreamcast. I was getting worried for a minute there.

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  13. I miss my Amiga by Taulin · · Score: 1
    The dreamcast is incredible. Yep, dead, but fun as hell.

    Recently I downloaded that Amiga music player mentioned earlier and listened to all my favorite music again (Shadow of the Beast 2, Obliterator, and the other Psygnosis games). If this emulator had sound, I would definatly use it. Some, most, of that music still sounds better than modern games do.

    1. Re:I miss my Amiga by big+ben+bullet · · Score: 1

      me too

      I've never heard a recent pc say 'Accolade Presents...' like the Amiga 500 did in Test Drive (the first one)

      I sold it to buy a Commodore PC-1 x86 4.77Mhz with a monochrome display card... man was I dissapointed back then.

  14. I wonder if CAPS will support it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I wonder if CAPS will support it... They do preservation of original Amiga games...
    http://www.caps-project.org/

  15. Now I have a reason! by terrox · · Score: 1

    Now I have a reason to buy a Dreamcast!

  16. Poor Dreamcast, always late to the party. by CronoCloud · · Score: 1

    Because people emulated Amigas on Playstation 2 Linux kits 2 years ago using UAE.