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    From deepthaw@314:314/50 to All on Wed Aug 16 19:12:00 2017
    I have a spare Pi I'd like to press into service as an Amibian device. What model of Amiga is going to be the best for me to emulate? I guess I'm looking for the best hardware that runs full speed and is compatible with the most software.

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  • From Ingo Juergensmann@314:314/75 to deepthaw on Thu Aug 17 09:21:00 2017

    Hello deepthaw!

    16 Aug 17 19:12, you wrote to all:

    I have a spare Pi I'd like to press into service as an Amibian device. What model of Amiga is going to be the best for me to emulate? I guess
    I'm looking for the best hardware that runs full speed and is
    compatible with the most software.

    That depends on what you want to do with the emulated Amiga?
    For old games and demos I think A500 would be the most compatible choice. For new games and demos that might require AGA chipset, you will need to choose an A1200.

    Later games and demos might also run on the big box Amigas, i.e. A3000/A4000, but software from the early Amiga days will have issues with the different CPUs
    and might give strange results.

    Ingo


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  • From Night Stalker@314:314/20 to deepthaw on Thu Aug 17 23:37:00 2017
    On 08/16/17, deepthaw said the following...

    I have a spare Pi I'd like to press into service as an Amibian device. What model of Amiga is going to be the best for me to emulate? I guess
    I'm looking for the best hardware that runs full speed and is compatible with the most software.

    Unfortunatly you are going to be limited to emulating at most an A4000/040
    with Workbench 3.1 as UAE4ARM does not support uaescsi.device yet for
    mounting cd images to install Amiga OS 3.9.. I tried installing it on WinUAE and transferring the HDF but it sits at requestor at bootup saying unable to load uaescsi.device ..

    It's coming along.. UAE4ARM is a relatively new project

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  • From Hot Ashes@314:314/10 to Night Stalker on Sat Aug 19 12:54:00 2017
    Night Stalker wrote to deepthaw:

    Unfortunatly you are going to be limited to emulating at most an A4000/040 with Workbench 3.1 as UAE4ARM does not support uaescsi.device yet for mounting cd images to install Amiga OS 3.9.. I tried installing it on WinUAE and transferring the HDF but it sits at requestor at bootup
    saying unable to load uaescsi.device ..

    It's coming along.. UAE4ARM is a relatively new project

    There is no UAE in the Raspbian package repo :( Does anyone have a tutorial on how to build it from source?


    Greetings, Hot Ashes

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  • From Night Stalker@314:314/20 to Hot Ashes on Sun Aug 20 01:31:00 2017
    On 08/19/17, Hot Ashes said the following...

    There is no UAE in the Raspbian package repo :( Does anyone have a tutorial on how to build it from source?


    Sadly no.. you'll have to check out the site for UAE4ARM and grab the sources and I'm sure you can find some information on the git site on how to build it

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  • From Hot Ashes@314:314/10 to Night Stalker on Thu Aug 24 18:37:00 2017
    Night Stalker wrote to Hot Ashes:

    Sadly no.. you'll have to check out the site for UAE4ARM and grab the sources
    and I'm sure you can find some information on the git site on how to build it

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    Ok. I will poke around and see what I can come up with


    Greetings, Hot Ashes

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  • From gaingreen@314:314/30 to Night Stalker on Tue Dec 19 21:40:35 2017
    Have you tried installing os3.9 on your desktop and copying over the HDF
    files and mimicing the cfgs? not sure if this will work tho.
    -=*GaInGrEEn*=-

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  • From gaingreen@314:314/30 to Night Stalker on Tue Dec 19 21:41:31 2017
    ops sorry screen was cutoff got my answer. Im a newb
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  • From Night Stalker@314:314/0 to gaingreen on Sat Jan 20 23:10:55 2018
    On 12/19/17, gaingreen said the following...

    Have you tried installing os3.9 on your desktop and copying over the HDF files and mimicing the cfgs? not sure if this will work tho. -=*GaInGrEEn*=-


    You cannot run AmigaOS 3.9 on UAE4ARM, it's not as current as WinUAE you get
    a boot requestor unable to load uaescsi.device

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