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Buying Amiga Forever from Cloanto gets you completely legally licensed Amiga kickstart rom images, AmigaOS workbench disk images, preset configs, and a bunch of software with easy launchers (for windows - while the suite is windows-oriented out of box, the rom and disk images of course work fine on linux/macosx uae).
I think your options are KX Light or Icaros Desktop. The former is a very light Knoppix installer that uses UAE as its desktop environment (requires Amiga Forever Plus package); the latter is a packaged distribution of AROS.
Hope this helps.
Edit: Instructions to install KX Light rather than boot from CD all the time.
Amiga Forever has a neatly packaged collection of games and software for doing exactly that. Don't mention abandonware or downloading Amiga software around hardcore fans, however. They still see it as piracy, and often get pissed about it.
There certainly are several android device forks/ports of various C64 and Amiga emulators already available.
However, the C64 and Amiga were full home computers, with keyboards, joy sticks/pads and mice, and software for them tends to use keyboard extensively (well, there were some fairly unsuccessful games-console variants of both like the C64GS and Amiga CD32). So they can be kind of frustrating to use on small mobile/android devices beyond some of the more basic and slow moving games, even more so than typical pure games-console emulators like NES/SNES (which "just" have the usual "touchscreen virtual joypads suuuuuck" issue).
While the necessary ROM/OS images are not exactly hard to track down, Amiga Forever is an official (i.e. fully licensed, including relevant ROM and Disk OS images) Amiga emulator package setup for easy use on current platforms from Cloanto (well-known in the Amiga era as developers of Personal Paint), lately including a setup intended for use with existing android Amiga emulators. They also do C64 forever
Emulators for the Amiga are very mature these days, however, you cannot legally redistribute the Kickstart-ROM without a license, and the emulator won't work without it.
The only ones who actually offer legal ROMs with their emulator (that I know of) are http://www.amigaforever.com
I've heard good things about The Walking Dead and Bioshock Infinite. As mentioned already, Trine and Trine 2 are on sale.
Also be careful of Steam! I keep buying all of these games that I never play. ;)
Since you mention Amiga...you can download an Amiga emulator and play games. Check out Amiga Forever by Cloanto. Not sure if the Mac emulator is included, if not look for FS-UAE online.
Gog.com has a TON of older stuff too, including Alpha Centauri.
I seriously doubt they've written an Amiga emulator from scratch as the Amiga was notoriously difficult to emulate due to multiple custom chipsets.
I wonder if they've licenced UAE somehow? It's under the GPL so they'd have to release the source for it since they will have ported it to the PS4. Plus they'd have to also pay whoever owns the Amiga stuff now for the kickstart rom so it'll work.
There is precedent for this due to Amiga Forever for example.
< Former A500 and A1200 owner.
AmigaKit sells floppies and a CF of WB3.1 You can also purchase various versions of it vial Cloanto via their (classic support media)[http://www.amigaforever.com/media/]
AFAIK amiga emulators [like the officially licensed and legal] amiga forever distribution runs most/all cd32 stuff fine on modern hardware.
The cd32 actually had an extra gfx chip [akiko, for hardware c2p conversion] compared to an a1200, but most cd32 games were straight a1200 games with nicer cd audio and video cut scenes slapped on, and just don't use akiko, making the hardware difference irrelevant. And iirc akiko emulation was actually included in the relevant uae descendants like winuae some time ago anyway, for the few things that did use it.
While amiga forever is entirely legal, obtaining actual cd32 cd images to try may involve 'pirating' unless you still have your originals - but I really doubt anyone is left to give a fuck if you torrent them, even more than usual.
Buying Amiga Forever from Cloanto gets you completely legally licensed Amiga kickstart rom images, AmigaOS workbench disk images, preset configs, and a bunch of software with easy launchers (for windows - while the suite is windows-oriented out of box, the rom and disk images of course work fine on linux/macosx uae).
Either will be fine. It's the PowerPC stuff where FS is slightly behind.
You can buy a set of ROMS from Amiga Forever, or you can find them in the usual places on the net if you can't/don't fancy extracting yours from your own machine.
If you have floppies then Amiga Explorer can copy anything onto your Amiga see http://www.amigaforever.com/ae/
But you need at least a Workbench 1.2 first.
If you have nothing you can use a Cortex Floppy Emulator:
https://cortexamigafloppydrive.wordpress.com
With the Floppy Emulator you can basically mount any game or program. I have installed workbench with it.
There are differing versions for differing operating systems, but that's all I'm aware of. You can get it for 10 bucks here, and get the cable here. Just need a PC with a serial port to connect it to and you're set! It's a somewhat slow process, but it works like a charm.
I'm glad to see no one jumped down your throat for talking about emulated Amigas. On other forums I've seen people get flamed for suggesting that they're not ready to spend dough on real hardware and games.
That being said, Amiga Forever is a popular collection of legally licensed (AFAIK) firmware and games that you can buy.
I get most of my Amiga collection from this excellent torrent tracker. Pleasuredome
But the purchase of Amiga Forever isn't an bad option of getting the WB 3.1 and Kickstart 3.xx
OK. I don't understand why this doesn't work. dd doesn't care what filesystem is on the disk, it copies bit-for-bit at the block level.
I wonder if this is a variation on the old PC <-> Amiga problem, that is to say, an insurmountable hardware incompatibility?
I'd try ddrescue out of curiousity, but I doubt it'll fare any better.
What actually did happen to Richard Drummond (developer of E-UAE), anyway? His site hasn't updated in years. I'm hoping not dead or gravely ill or something, I just don't know the story/politics if any behind UAE/WinUAE/AmigaForever*/E-UAE/P-UAE.
* The officially-licensed Amiga emulator package from Cloanto, basically WinUAE with fully legal Kickstart ROMs and OS and various other disk images, works fine with E-UAE on Linux.
The Amiga Forever package has a fair bit to say on the matter.
You are legally obliged to buy a copy if you plan to emulate an Amiga (for the ROMs);-
If the floppy route is a no go and you don't have a scsi, it's another method.
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-108
If the Amiga floppy drive is faulty, you can fit a Gotek replacement. Might be more expensive method though. (You need that AND emulator to read at the PC end, I think).
The most expensive method would be to fit a network card in the A3000. Can't help you with that, they cost a bomb and are rarely available to buy.
adf files are disk images. You'll need an image of each disk for the game you want to play.
You'll also need kisktart rom images, or to go the easy option, buy amiga forever basic edition. http://www.amigaforever.com/?__c=1
Amiga Explorer worked for me the last time I tried to do this. As long as the Amiga will boot to Workbench 1.2 or higher you can transfer files via a null-modem serial link. The noob solution probably but it works exactly as described without needing to do much tinkering; it mounts the Amiga as a virtual device like a network drive.
The two drive trick needs an old PC with a motherboard that supports 2 floppy drives on the same chain in the BIOS and adfread (available from WinUAE site, works on 2K and newer) or... I forget it's name, but there's another solution for 98 and older but you have to pay for it and word is adfread is better.
If you want an inexpensive Amiga experience, [UAE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAE_(emulator\)) is one of the most mature computer emulation packages in existence and FOSS. And/or there are the super turnkey Amiga Forever packages that give you a considerable Amiga library for cheap with legit licensing and a nice frontend.
I have an A500 with a 1084 monitor and some accessories tucked away in storage (purchased around 2010, iirc. I had Macs and PCs in the 90s but not an Amiga), but usually just emulate when I get the Amiga itch.
Is the case and frame the same one from the aptiva with a completely different back or a new frame made to fit the outer case?
I use the amiga forever emulator suite (http://www.amigaforever.com) which also emulates the correct drive sound for the model loading :) Might be possible use a TSR to perform sounds when the SD is accessed.
Edit: I said TSR ... Now im showing my age!
> as far as I know there is no way to get them on a floppy using mac or win pcs.. :(
All you need is to wire a floppy drive to the parallel port.
There's also the KryoFlux mentioned in another post.
And there's this "manpage" with a lot of relevant info:
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/13-118
Also, can you run anything in the Amiga? If you have any workbench, you might be able to use your serial port and primitive ways (eg: shell and pipes) to get proper serial transfer software into the Amiga side.
If you are looking for something pre-packaged you can try Cloanto's packages.
That saves you some of the hassles of finding ROMs and games. Depending on which package you buy, you can also get demos etc. Really good gateway for a beginner.
Shufflepuck was awesome! I played all the old adventure games on my Amiga back in the day before switching to Apple and PC when commodore went under, so I have a huge nostalgia rush for playing those games.
As far as emulation goes I recommend looking up Amiga Forever, and or this place.
Try these sites: http://www.amigaforever.com/games/ http://eager.back2roots.org/
One of them is bound to have the game you're looking for on it. An Amiga game I can think of that has 3 characters is The Fairy Tale Adventure, but none of the 3 characters were a werewolf.
Wait, Another game I remember was available for the Amiga was Altered Beast, I never played that game myself so I don't know if it really fits the description well or not.
The problem will indeed be writing a FFS floppy image.
I haven't played with this stuff in years, but here's some advice, but it's mostly about reading.
I assume however the workbench disk is available in one of those boxes and perhaps it still works. If not, I wonder if a floppy-to-pendrive interface would be compatible. Amiga drives weren't completely identical and using a standard one was tricky.
In any case there's more than a way to skin this cat. Love the A1080 monitor, btw. Never seen one IRL.
I bought Amiga Forever, an emulator for the machine and a license for all the legal stuff you need to go along with it. I still boot up that virtual Amiga from time to time for some of my favorite retro games. I loved my Amiga. But it was just from a different era, people who also loved them are - long after you'd expect a reasonable person to give up - still trying - click on the Amiga "Ball" in the lower-right - to get modern hardware out with a "new" AmigaOS to go along with it.