WELCOME Fellow Amigans

Greetings,

I was busy last Dec30th cause my girlfriend did not go to work and she
had to stayed home to help mommy out on our new year feast. :-D Happy
New Year to all visitors.

Anyway, Marlon has SMS me for a request the other day that he wanted to
know how to run WinUAE under WindowsME and what's the procedure. Well,
you're in luck. So, here's a few things you should do in order to start
using WinUAE. I assume you've already covered all the aspect of the Amiga
Hardware and Opearating Systems. If not, Don't continue and go back
to www.AmigaU.com for a more thorugh review on each machines, ROMS and the
like. Else, you may want to proceed or you won't have any idea what I'm
talking about.

First, the easy part:
1. You should purchase an orignal Product CD from Software Hut Inc. or
other/similar sites like AmigaKit.com, or Versalia that sells
AmigaForever CD version From Clanto for $59(price at the time of my
purchase). All you need to start WinUAE is in that package. From ROM
images of early Amigas A1000 to A4000Desktops. to Workbech 1.0 to 3.x.

Or... do the hard part:
1. You would like to visit Amiga Forever website at URL:
http://www.amigaforever.com/kb/6-102.html
to further enhace yor knowledge on how to use Emulation of Amiga on
your PC.
2. Download the my version at URL:http://www.winuae.net/frames/download.html
the official website for downloading the latest version of UAE for
Windows. I'm using version 0.8.22 beta 1 the R1. You may want to download the
latest if you want, but I want you to be familiar to what I use ATM so
I can easily pointout to which is better or this or that tab.
3. After downloading it. Set it up to automatically install. Run the Check
mark Icon when you see it.
4. Configure first the video and chipset you want to use. Load the recommended
ROM kickstart image you want to enable your emulation with:
amiga-boot-a1000.rom amiga-ext-130-cdtv.rom
amiga-ext-310-cd32.rom amiga-os-100.rom
amiga-os-110.rom amiga-os-120.rom
amiga-os-130.rom amiga-os-204.rom
amiga-os-300.rom amiga-os-310-cd32.rom
amiga-os-310.rom
the extension are designation of what type of OS rom image after that
correspont with the number or version of OS. Like 110 means KickStart
Version 1.10. as 'amiga-os-110.rom' and 'amigaos-110.adf'.
Note: These are copyrighted files. You just can't get these things just
by downloading them.
5. After selecting your KickStart ROM file. You can now select the WorkBench
version which correspond with the ROM image. Except for cdtv and cd32 which
are the Console version and it only needs an orginal boot CDROM in order to run
CDTV or CD32. The floppy version of these files are in .ADF or Amiga Disk
Format. It is a virtual floppy for the PC to be able to load it in a virtual
Floppy Drive, which can be called while the emulation is running just by
pressing 'F12' key and selecting the Floppy tab you'll 'put' or 'Insert' the
Floppy disk(.ADF file). Here are the Workbench files in .ADF

af-boot.adf amigaos-100-wb.adf
amigaos-110-wb.adf amigaos-120-wb.adf
amigaos-130-wb.adf amigaos-200-wb.adf
amigaos-204-wb.adf amigaos-210-wb.adf
amigaos-300-wb.adf amigaos-310-wb.adf


The ROM Image correspond to Workbench versions as well. It is also capable to
be backward compatible. Like, your Kickstart version is 'amiga-os-310.rom' and
'amigaos-100.adf'

NOTE: Although .ROM files are seldomly found on the internet, you can download
most .adf files. Speciall early floppy based games found in site(legally)
at URL: http://www.back2roots.org
Find the ADF section to run all floppy based games.

Well, that's it for now. If you need *more help just post any questions on the
comments section so I could further clarify all your queries. On the later blogs,
I show you some tips on how to install AMOSPro and compiler under WinUAE if you're
interested to program.

Regards,

Gizz72