It’s also a doddle to capture screenshots and record gameplay footage using my preferred tools - MSI afterburner for screenshots and Nvidia Shadowplay for video capture. Once I boot my system I can quickly switch between the pre-installed games without ever leaving the Amiga environment or having to faff around with ADFs. The advantage of my current system is that it’s lightning fast, runs smoothly in fullscreen at my desktop resolution, outputs to 5.1 surround sound (which sounds great), and I can easily tweak WinUAE settings, when required, to improve compatibility with certain games/software. Essentially this is a heavily-upgraded A1200 running Workbench 3.1 with a disk image containing the system drive (for booting/running the OS) and a “Work” drive that appears in Windows as a fully accessible and modifiable folder that allows me to effortlessly copy pre-installed WHDLoad versions of games over to my emulated Amiga.

However, my preferred method is using WinUAE (the most fully-featured and configurable Amiga emulator available) to run games from a virtual hard drive through an emulated Amiga Workbench environment. In fact, FS-UAE connects to a handy online database that recognises your games and configures itself accordingly to provide decent compatibility for each one. The simplest method is to acquire the ADFs (Amiga disk file) of your favourite titles and run them through either FS-UAE or WinUAE using one of their configuration presets or through Cloanto’s Amiga Forever interface. These days, there are multiple ways to emulate and play classic Amiga games on your PC. Troubleshooting and additional tweaks and settings.What if the game I want to play isn’t available as WHDLoad?.Resolution of classic Amiga games and analogue displays.Game resolution and scaling and filtering options.Creating a WHDLoad games list with iGame.Changing wallpaper and tidying up the desktop.Setting up a shared directory with Windows.

Changing the Workbench (RTG) display mode.

Last revised: 21 September 2020 Guide contents

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