Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
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Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
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Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#2The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#3The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
How is "WinUAE Amiga Emulator" not a succinct explanation of what WinUAE is?
Mind you, this is something targeting rather specific group (i.e. people who want to emulate Amiga and related machines)
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#4The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
At the very top of the page, in the header, it tells you what it is, an Amiga emulator.
> WinUAE Amiga emulator
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#5The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
For what it's worth I agree with flurdy. It's obvious that it targets Amiga emulation on windows, but what can I expect, whats the user experience?
For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla.
I'm still going to give it a shot though!
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#6The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
For what it's worth I agree with flurdy. It's obvious that it targets Amiga emulation on windows, but what can I expect, whats the user experience? For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla. I'm still going…
> For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla.
Except WinUAE has been there for so long it is already part of the Amiga scene folklore.
It is a windows msi installer, there is not guide needed appart from the usual next --> next --> install and I have personally never seen a screenshot of the gui as a useful resource. So many projects show really nice looking screenshots and then your try the software itself and you find out it is buggy/crashy/misssing features.
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#7The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
For what it's worth I agree with flurdy. It's obvious that it targets Amiga emulation on windows, but what can I expect, whats the user experience? For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla. I'm still going…
FWIW, the WinUAE page has always been that minimalist.
UAE was the Unix Amiga Emulator and the original source is now dead, but was forked years ago and the two main versions are WinUAE (for Windows) and FS-UAE (for Linux, Windows and macOS).
FS-UAE has a website more like the one you're expecting: https://fs-uae.net/
...but the link here is to announce that WinUAE just got a new release, not to debate the relative merits of two competing forks of a project and their websites!
If it helps anyone, here's a simple how-to for setting up WinUAE: https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emul...
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#8The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is
At the very top of the page, in the header, it tells you what it is, an Amiga emulator. > WinUAE Amiga emulator
perhaps with the passing of time and the state of AI, people might mistake it for an actual girl friend emulator! ;-)
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#9I'm ecstatic to see this project is still alive. As a user of the Video Toaster 4000, I barely had a real understanding of the Amiga platform. (Every once in awhile we'd go back to the Workbench to launch Deluxe Paint, AmiPro, etc) After leaving the job where I used it, I started to get into the emulation scene. That was where I learned SO MUCH about the Workbench, AmigaDOS, Demos, Kickstart ROMs. I went back to my old job to visit, and was delighted to share so much knowledge with my old boss.
My biggest accomplishment (of that era) was running SheepShaver (macOS 7.5 emulation) on top of WinUAE, on top of Windows98.
Biggest frustration (of that era): Searching for UAE on Dogpile/Altavista/Yahoo... So many references to the United Arab Emirates!! (rightfully so, but young me had no idea what that even meant)
Re: Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the very top of the page, in the header, it tells you what it is, an Amiga emulator. > WinUAE Amiga emulator
perhaps with the passing of time and the state of AI, people might mistake it for an actual girl friend emulator! ;-)
I was always torn between Denise, Paula and Agnus.