OT - Amiga emulator?

[gregebowman]

Ok, does anyone know of an Amiga emulator program that can load and read Amiga disks? I have a huge collection of .gif files and music mods from my Amiga days, and I'd like to be able to copy them off of the old discs and put them on my hd, so I can look at them or listen to the music. Is this even possible?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

winuae and amiga forever. there what i'm using.

amiga forever homepage: http://www.amigaforever.com/

i'm not sure about winuae.

[ February 18, 2004, 21:49: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[gregebowman]

Ok, thanks for the info, Narf. Maybe I should rephrase my question. Does anyone know of a "FREE" emulator? That Amiga Forever sounds like just what I need, but the $30 price tag is more than I want to spend on it. If I can't find anything else with similar options, I'll probably come up with the dough. But I'm still feeling the pinch from Christmas and all the money I spent on my car over the past few months (rebuilt transmission and had to replace the oil pump, fuel pump, the alternator and two tires, all in about a 3 month period).

[dogscoff]

Best solution is to get hold of an old amiiga (any one will do) then transfer your files by serial or parallel cable. I spent an entire Staurday doing just this Last month.

Anyone want to buy an amiga?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

winuae is free.

[PaladinX]

No emulator can read Amiga floppies... The hardware is incompatible.

You have to buy a special adapter or use one of the tutorials out there to build your own...

[Alneyan]

WinUAE is free, but I think you need the kickstart files (and possibly workbench as well), which are not provided with WinUAE and should be purchased from Amiga Forever, as they hold the copyright.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

i think you can also get them off your amiga through a serial cable.

[Parasite]

Originally posted by PaladinX:
No emulator can read Amiga floppies... The hardware is incompatible.

You have to buy a special adapter or use one of the tutorials out there to build your own... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I checked at my Amiga club Last night to be sure this was true. To read Amiga floppies you need an Amiga compatible floppy drive. These are on Amiga computers.

Once you have the Amiga, then transfer them to PC floppies with CrossDos, burn a CD, transfer them using a modem, ethernet, serial or parallel cable to another machine, ect.

[PaladinX]

Told ya. Commodore used a more advanced floppy controller with the Amiga than IBM was using in their PCs, and the PC still uses the same floppy controller, so it can't read Amiga formatted disks.

[gregebowman]

Darn, I was hoping not to go through the Amiga route. I still got mine, but I have no monitor for it and my keyboard got destroyed by my niece and nephew after I loaned it to my sister-in-law to use before she got a PC. Oh well. I've been living without them for all of these years, so I guess I can continue to live without them.

[Parasite]

Originally posted by gregebowman:
I still got mine, but I have no monitor for it. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Don't forget that an Amiga has a yellow video out plug. It will work plugged into a normal TV. Maybe not the greatest resolution, but it will work.