Subj : AmigaOS 3.2 - AROS - Emulation - BBS
To   : vorlon
From : Oli
Date : Tue Feb 21 2023 13:24:45

Hi vorlon,

thanks for the helpful advise.

vorlon wrote (2023-02-20):

 v> Do you want to emulate a A500 or soemthing with a bit more grunt? Do you
 v> just want to play games or do more?

I'm mostly interested in BBS and Fidonet stuff.

 v> Aros won't run Amiga games in it's native format, and you'll need one of
 v> the emulators to do that.

Would AROS be sufficient for a mail tosser or a BBS? I guess I have to try.

Do you have any experience with AROS?

 >> I managed to install AmigaOS 3.2 on FS-UAE, but I haven't figured out
 >> how to configure the graphics for higher resolutions. [...]

 v> By default all Amiga emulator's start like that, as that is what the
 v> Amiga was like. To run higher res, you need to make a few changes to the
 v> configuration and install the "P96" drivers...

That worked :). And I've learned that I shouldn't extract the lha archive on Linux. Took me half an hour to figure out
where to find the install script. After I had installed LHA and extracted Picasso96.lha on Amiga, the install icon was there.

 v> [fs-uae]
 v> base_dir = /amiga
 v> amiga_model = A3000
 v> chip_memory = 2048
 v> fast_memory = 8192

Does it matter if I use Fast RAM, Motherboard RAM or Zorro III Fast Memory? (besides the upper limits?)

 >> I cannot Quit the Workbench:
 >> "Cannot quit yet, there are 4 WB launched program(s)"
 >> Is it okay to just power off? Or how do I solve that problem?

 v> Once workbench is running you normally don't "quit" workbench. Pressing
 v> F12 in fs-uae will bring up a menu system on the right side of the
 v> screen. You can then tab/cursor/enter to do things...

On the F12 menu there is also no shutdown. Should I just close the emulator window?

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