Subj : Amiga Emulation
To   : vorlon
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Wed Jul 20 2022 12:04:00

-=> On Mon Jul 18 21:55:00 2022, vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 > Hi Acmebbs,
 > 
 >  > I have a Lenovo ThinkCentre with a 250 GB HDD. Tried a stripped down
 >  > version of Windows 7/XP to run WinUAE. Doesn't work very well. Want to
 >  > run Coffin OS r60 under an emulator on this ThinkCentre. Other than
 >  > FS-UAE...are there other Amiga emulators which will run on an x86
 >  > system under Linux/BSD? Want to boot right to the workbench to make it
 >  > run like an actual Amiga.
 > 
 > Under linux FS-UAE is pretty much it.

Have been looking at this. Right now...am looking at RetroPie on the x86.

 >  > Any other suggestions would be thankful and make me happy if there are
 >  > steps to make this happen. If you have come across anyway to run
 >  > Coffin OS on an A500 Mini...would be interested in that as well.
 > 
 > Have you heard of "Amilator"? It runs linux from a USB memory stick and
 > boot's right into the Emulator.  I've been updating it of late (I'm
 > not the original creator) and you can grab the latest version from here:
 > 
 > https://amiga.vk3heg.net
 > 
 > If you can wait untill the weekend, I'll be releasing something that
 > totally replaces Amilator. Just finishing up on the documentation, and
 > fixing any issues the beta tester's have reported.

I have not heard of this...but you better believe I will be keeping an eye on it. Am impressed that this is avalable. It's exactly what I've looking for on the x86 side of things...with DietPi being useful on the RPi side of things.

Thank you so much for letting me know about this!

.... This is as bad as it can get...but don't bet on it. 
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