Advice for using WinUAE on a Mac
 

Hello,

I have a new MacBookPro. I need to use several Windows software on it, so I intend to use either Fusion or Parallels to have a Windows7 virtual machine.
One of the windows software I'd like to use is, of course, WinUAE. :D

Which do you think it would suit better for this task, Fusion or Parallels?

I use parallels, but I'd also recommend checking out both PUAE and FS-UAE as alternatives... I've managed to get FS-UAE doing 50Hz vsync on my macbook pro...

I use VMWare Fusion, but i only use it to test stuff in IE. For amiga there are native emulators.

You should also take a look at virtualbox, which in contrast to Fusion and parallels is free. (well, the opensource version is)

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

I've been using Parallels, hosting a Windows 7 installed on a bootcamp partition.

Performance for Direct X stuff has been better in Parallels than VMWare for a while. I switched a couple of years ago.

Edit: Oh, and it works fine with Windows 8 as well. The Win7->8 upgrade was flawless and the latest version of Parallels still runs Win8 from the Bootcamp partition.

Best of both worlds, basically. Reboot if you want full performance. Although, parallels is so fast I do the bulk of my dev under it, and just reboot for performance testing.

Just use FS-UAE. Works like a charm on Mac OS, native.

Just have, and it's loads faster than the last version I ran. Still has an annoying issue when it's not sure what to do with resolution, so my workbench occasionally shrinks, then enlarges again, but that's nothing too serious.

From a side by side comparison, WinUAE is smoother running >030 demos, at least on the few I've just tried, but FS-UAE seems more than capable now.

Handy :)

I would like to try it, then.
Are the harddisk files of WinUAE and FS-UAE compatible? Can I just copy my harddiskfiles from my WinUAE (on the PC) to a freshly installed FS-UAE, and expect everything to work ok?

Yes, they are compatible, and you should be able to use them out of the box. Keep a backup just in case ;) Please post a thread in support.FS-UAE if it doesn't work.

Can you do classic wb 3.9 installlation on fs-uae?