MacOS and AMIGA Emulation: The BEST Emulator... is?

[sev7en]

Dear All,
first of all................, yes you deserve it, it is a wonderful community for a wonderful world.

I would ask you which one is the best emulator available for Mac OS X (Yosemite) if there is any specific thread to look for settings, tweaks and suggests.


Thanks and W AMIGA

[Nekoniaow]

Originally Posted by sev7en

Dear All,
first of all................, yes you deserve it, it is a wonderful community for a wonderful world.

I would ask you which one is the best emulator available for Mac OS X (Yosemite) if there is any specific thread to look for settings, tweaks and suggests.

Thanks and W AMIGA

If you google "mac os x amiga emulator" (https://www.google.ca/search?client=...JOzE8geG24DIBw),
you will find that the first result is actually the only viable Amiga emulator option on OS X Yosemite: FS-UAE which is actively maintained by Frode Solheim (hence the FS). Also it's quite good.
Coincidentally, its support forum is also hosted by the English Amiga Board.

In the past there were several others but their maintainers were apparently too anemic to follow up with WinUAE's updates (that's the reference version of UAE). Frode on the other hand seems to be competent and motivated enough to last several decades.

The emulator: http://fs-uae.net
The support forum on EAB: http://eab.abime.net/forumdisplay.php?f=122

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Nekoniaow

You know about this Google thing right?

Please refrain from this generic answer if a user asks about opinions when several options exist. Thank you.

[Nekoniaow]

Originally Posted by TCD

Please refrain from this generic answer if a user asks about opinions when several options exist. Thank you.

Didn't I take care to point to the result and give a properly supported answer (two paragraphs).
Where is the generic answer you are referring to?

As for the introductory humour, Google is a useful tool, and pointing out that it can be used is also a useful answer if the original poster didn't think of doing it.
"Teach a man to fish" they say.

I would never write something which might dissuade a newcomer, and I stand by my opinion that my answer was helpful.

With love and kittens.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Nekoniaow

Where is the generic answer you are referring to?

Right there in your first sentence. As funny as it might seem to you, it's utterly pointless if the user doesn't ask for 'where can I find [x] on the internet'.

Really, it's just not worth opening your post like that

[Nekoniaow]

Originally Posted by TCD

Right there in your first sentence. As funny as it might seem to you, it's utterly pointless if the user doesn't ask for 'where can I find [x] on the internet'.

Really, it's just not worth opening your post like that

I still disagree that this initial sentence is pointless but I agree that using it at the opening sentence might act as an off putting cold shower for a newcomer so I have taken that into account and reformulated it in a hopefully more friendly manner.

Thanks for your comment!

[sev7en]

Good afternoon,
thanks to all for the feedbacks. I was disappointed of the "initial sentence" of Mr.Nekonaiow because if we have to "ask to Google" we can close the forums as not necessary.
If I asked to you it's because, you are not Google but a community, then Mr.Nekoniaow maybe in Montreal there's a different way to take care of the things.

After that... I will do full immersion on that great world as I love the retrogaming area.


Kindly,

[Minuous]

Wouldn't the better option, if you must use MacOS, be to run WinUAE via WINE?

[sev7en]

Originally Posted by Minuous

Wouldn't the better option, if you must use MacOS, be to run WinUAE via WINE?

Hi,
I would like to use only native Mac applications... without any Windows' porting.

[Minuous]

That's a strange attitude to take, as the Amiga programs you would be running are not "native Mac applications" anyway...

[Nekoniaow]

Originally Posted by Minuous

Wouldn't the better option, if you must use MacOS, be to run WinUAE via WINE?

Wine is far from being complete enough to properly run WinUAE acceptably.
Also, it comes with all kind of subtle configuration issues which a proper adaptation like FS-UAE does not have since it's designed to be multiplatform.

[fgh]

Use FS-UAE. It's the only recently developed emulator for Mac.
It uses the WinUAE emulation core, so it's just as precise.

[sev7en]

Originally Posted by fgh

Use FS-UAE. It's the only recently developed emulator for Mac.
It uses the WinUAE emulation core, so it's just as precise.

Good evening,
thanks, it is the one only updated I found but it looks less customizable than WinUAE as well with just a bunch of features.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by sev7en

Good evening,
thanks, it is the one only updated I found but it looks less customizable than WinUAE as well with just a bunch of features.

The GUI for FS-UAE lacks a lot of the options that are available if you specify them in the config files. Have a look here about which options are available (there are still more that aren't documented): http://fs-uae.net/options

[B14ck W01f]

Originally Posted by fgh

Use FS-UAE. It's the only recently developed emulator for Mac.
It uses the WinUAE emulation core, so it's just as precise.

FS-UAE is great, if you just want to just emulate all the Amiga models without the millions of hardware add-ons for it. Problem is, it takes Frode forever to release a development version for it, and whenever he releases a new version, it's only bug fixes and no additions. The last feature he added was the Toccata sound card.

FS-UAE mainly relies on you having to mess around with config files if you want to emulate a particular piece of hardware/feature. All the options that FS-UAE supports are mentioned here. However, there are no descriptions for some of these (which you can see near the bottom of the page), and I already asked if if you want to emulate the FPU, whether you put fpu = 68030 or fpu = 68881. The point is that I don't think he updates it.

Sorry, I like WinUAE better. Toni has put a lot of effort into it so far.

[sev7en]

Once again, thanks! I have a lot to read as I see but the best experience in the AMIGA world is with WinUAE...

[LeftyFPB]

There's an app called Hi-Toro. It was a front-end for E-UAE, which is apparently no longer being developed for Intel Macs. However, Hi-Toro still works, since it's an AppleScript app. It has a lot of configuration options that are missing from FS-UAE; you can use it to generate config files that work in FS-UAE.

[sev7en]

Originally Posted by LeftyFPB

There's an app called Hi-Toro. It was a front-end for E-UAE, which is apparently no longer being developed for Intel Macs. However, Hi-Toro still works, since it's an AppleScript app. It has a lot of configuration options that are missing from FS-UAE; you can use it to generate config files that work in FS-UAE.

Thanks and another suggest: which one is the best platform to set as default? The Amiga 1200 or should I change it according to the app/games I want run?

[LuMan]

Since getting a new Mac (with Yosemite) I've gone for FS-UAE as it's the only one I can get working properly! It takes a bit of setting up, but once you've added all your favourite configurations of Amiga into the Launcher it seems to work OK.

I've got the usual A500 for playing games, and a nice A1200 with a load of extras for emulating more serious stuff.

However, I did like the config files used by E-UAE and P-UAE. I had an almost perfect replica of my A1200T in P-UAE

Hope you get something up and running soon, Sev7en

[sev7en]

Originally Posted by LuMan

Since getting a new Mac (with Yosemite) I've gone for FS-UAE as it's the only one I can get working properly! It takes a bit of setting up, but once you've added all your favourite configurations of Amiga into the Launcher it seems to work OK.

I've got the usual A500 for playing games, and a nice A1200 with a load of extras for emulating more serious stuff.

However, I did like the config files used by E-UAE and P-UAE. I had an almost perfect replica of my A1200T in P-UAE

Hope you get something up and running soon, Sev7en

Dear LuMan,
thanks.... did you know which one I will play as first? Operation Stealth