WinUAE 3.5.0 () released. New emulated hardware • Comspec SA-1000 • California Access Malibu • DKB RapidFire • M-Tec AT-500 Megabody New features • Softfloat FPU emulation mode. Bit perfect FPU emulation (except transcendental functions), including full arithmetic exception support. Fb Auto Liker Apps Download. (Co-operation with Previous emulator author) • Lightpen emulation absolute coordinate HID (USB light guns) and touch screen device support. • American Laser Games second player and Actionware dual light gun adapter emulation. • Real harddrive mount lock option. Enables full exclusive access even if drive has Windows mounted FAT partition(s).

Jun 15, 2017. Download miscellaneous utilities. [UAEUNP 0.8] List and extract Amiga based disk images and archives; [Adfread 1.1] Read Amiga formatted floppies using “2-drive trick” on Windows 2000 or later. NOTE: Requires mainboard that supports 2 floppy drives, feature that hasn't existed for over 10 years.

• winlaunch.lib is now built-in feature and is also 64-bit compatible. • Show [Paused] in windowed mode title bar when in pause mode.

• If statefile is loaded with one or more floppy images that can’t be opened: keep fake disk in drive (like previously) and ask for new disk path when missing disk is accessed for the first time. Custom chipset features emulated • AGA FMODE>0 unaligned bitplane and sprite pointer behavior implemented, resulting display corruption is now 100% accurate. • BPLCON4 XOR mask special case in HAM6/8 or EHB modes. • Loading blitter B-DAT manually when B-shift was nonzero. • Lightpen hardware is now cycle-exactly emulated. • Sprite special case when DMA mode sprite’s start X-coordinate is less than sprite’s DMA slot position.

• Audio interrupts are delayed by 2 cycles. Feature improvements • 68020+ T0 trace mode is now fully emulated. • 68020 cycle exact mode adjustments. • Memory cycle exact mode mode accuracy improved • Implemented previously unimplemented bsdsocket.library emulation sendmsg() and recvmsg(). • Recursive mode ROM scanner now skips directories starting with dot. • MMU emulation can be now switched on/off on the fly.

• Release all currently pressed keys when emulation pauses. • Added memory cycle-exact Quickstart step for A1200 and CD32 configurations. Less CPU heavy than full cycle-exact and usually not much more worse (or better). At least not until 68020 CE gets better. • Escape old style directory and hardfile paths if it contains “,”.

• Masoboshi MasterCard fully implemented, including DMA support. Bug fixes • FM801 16-bit audio corruption. • A2090 ST-506 emulation. Sketchup Cracked Mac more. • Possible crash when display was very wide with bitplane DMA overrun condition. • Fixed crash when sound card audio play started and channel mode was mono and “Include CD and FMV audio” was ticked.

• Fixed crash when accessing accelerator board SCSI IO region without any added SCSI device(s). • Fixed crash if Blizzard accelerator on board memory size was set to zero. • JIT was not 512k or 1M Chip RAM compatible.

• Manual RAM configuration GUI didn’t accept smaller end address than current board size. • Manually configured but disabled (size zero) Z2/Z3 banks were added to system. • Apollo 1240/1260 memory address space fixed • PC bridgeboard NE2000 boot crash fix. • Windowed mode mouse does not anymore hit hidden barriers if window is partially outside of desktop or uncaptured if window is on top of task bar.

• If Custom autoconfig board order was enabled, expansion devices custom config setting(s) was not saved correctly. • 68000 address error stacked PC was not correct in some read-modify-write instructions • Untrap middle mouse button option was stuck. • GUI listview column width calculation used default font size, not selected font. • 68030 CE/prefetch mode cache access bug fixed.

• G-REX and Cirrus Logic graphics board state was reset if RAM or HW Info GUI panels were opened after emulation was started. This entry was posted in on.

WinUAE 3.4.0 released () New emulated hardware: Graphics adapters: • ColorBurst • Harlequin • OpalVision (OpalPaint, King of Karate) Accelerator boards: • Blizzard 1230 MK II and III. • IVS Vector 68030. HD controllers: • Blizzard 1230 MK II and III SCSI Kit. • Expansion Systems Dataflyer Plus. • FileCard 2000/OSSI 500 • Mainhattan A-Team. • Microbotics HardFrame. • SCRAM 500/2000.

Network adapters: • AmigaNet. • Ariadne II. • LAN Rover/EB920. • NE2000 compatible PCMCIA. • NE2000 compatible ISA (x86 bridgeboard compatible). • X-Surf and X-Surf 100 (Partial).

American Laser Games arcade game hardware: • LaserDisc player (video file) • Genlock (using video file genlock mode) • Light gun and buttons. New features: • RAM/RTG RAM handling updated, all size combinations are now supported.

• Autoconfig board GUI list with custom sorting support. • RAM Z2/Z3 board full autoconfig data customization support. • Up to 4 Z2 and Z3 RAM boards can be enabled simultaneously. • Multiple display and sound boards can be now enabled simultaneously. • Genlock realtime custom image, video file or capture stream overlay. • Genlock mode screenshot/video alpha channel support.

• Accelerator board 68000 fallback mode supported. • Game Ports panel custom mapping autofire support.

• Network access on screen led. • Single step (emulate one frame + pause) input event. • MIDI and Genlock video volume control. Updates: • Reduced input latency. • Reduced WASAPI sound mode latency. • WinPCap network mode now uses generated local MAC address, no more MAC conflicts between Windows and emulated Amiga.

• If some RAM board is not JIT Direct capable, only board’s access mode changes to JIT Indirect. Global JIT Direct option is not switched off. • Most RAM size/position related JIT Direct restrictions are gone. • Environment variables in file paths (%VAR%) are now always expanded. • Implemented AGA only bitplane DMA overrun emulation (Moon Child). • Host path 260 character limit removed (Windows 10 v1607+ only). Bug fixes: • Shortcuts with Shift key work again.

• Custom Game Port remapping does not disappear mysteriously anymore. • Mounting file with size less than 512 bytes as a harddrive work again. • CDTV statefiles fixed. • On the fly directory/archive mounting only worked once under OS4.x. • Worms DC and ACSYS (possibly others) graphics glitch fixed. • Bad sprite collision optimization fixed (Jumpman Junior).

• Stop PPC emulation first, before freeing any emulation resources to prevent random crashes at exit. • FPS.Adj config file handling fixed. • ATAPI CD emulation odd data size fix (HDToolbox hang) • default.uae with unplugged device: set to none, not layout A. And more This entry was posted in, on.

How to play retro games on your PC: A guide to running everything from an amiga emulator, to Commodore 64 games, Atari games, and a ZX Spectrum emulator on your current PC. Despite having an incredibly powerful gaming PC, PS4, Xbox One and tablet at our disposal, there are times when we just want to sit back and enjoy something from our past. The home computing boom of the 80s saw the rise of the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro and the Commodore 64; where every town had a decently stocked arcade filled with the likes of Galaga, Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Rygar. Then came the transition from 8-bit to 16-bit with the Amiga and Atari ST, and finally the Playstation, Xbox, and the early years of PC gaming.

Emulation While you can’t beat having access to the real machine from computing history, it’s not always convenient. You have to buy the hardware first, then check to see if it’s all working. Plus, there’s no guarantee that it’ll be able to display anything on your modern TV, or that any of the tapes, disks, and so on will still work. Related: Therefore to save time, money, and space we turn to emulation. This is where you can run a program that’ll emulate the original hardware to the point where it’s almost indistinguishable from the real thing. And since even the most modest PC these days is many times more powerful than the home computer or console of the past, you can be sure that you won’t run into any resource issues when using the emulator.

An emulator uses a ROM to both run the system in question, so when you open the program you’re presented with the same startup screen you saw when you originally powered up, and as a game file to load onto the system. While a lot of ROMs are perfectly legal to use, many aren’t. The ones that are legal have been allowed by the original developer or manufacturer, or are now classed as abandoned since the manufacturer no longer exists.

The ones that are illegal haven’t been allowed by the owners of the rights to that game or system. Getting hold of ROMs is easy enough, both legally and illegally, but to avoid any possible copyright issues we won’t go into how you’d obtain the ROMs in this article. We'd also like to send you special offers and news just by email from other carefully selected companies we think you might like. Your personal details will not be shared with those companies - we send the emails and you can unsubscribe at any time. Please tick here if you are happy to receive these messages.

And ZX Spectrum We’ll start the emulation off with one of the most iconic home computers from the 8-bit era: the ZX Spectrum. It’s really quite amazing how this little machine, with its quirky ‘dead flesh’ keyboard and extremely limited resources (even by 80s standards) took hold of the imaginations of an entire generation.

It was cheap, easy to use, and the first computer many ever used. Related: There are countless emulators available for the Speccy, and some are better than others. But the one that stands out as the best for many enthusiasts is Spectaculator. It’s available for PCs running XP and upwards, and is also available for iOS and Android devices. It does cost £9.99, but you can have a free 30-day trial before committing to purchase it.

All you need do is, and follow the on-screen prompts in the installation wizard to get it up and running. Once installed, double click the desktop icon and either enter the trial period or a valid code. Spectaculator can accurately emulate the 16K, 48K, 128, +2, +2A, +3, Pentagon 128, and Scorpion ZS 256 machines – all of which can be selected from the Control >Switch Model menu. It comes with a handful of games, but you can access more via World of Spectrum. You can also load up snapshot images of the games, as well as emulating the loading screen through a virtual tape player. BBC Micro The BBC Micro was an impressively large machine, the sort of thing that could easily survive a nuclear attack. Which may account for one of the reasons why they were so popular in schools.

Anyone who went to secondary or high school in the mid to late eighties would more than likely have had their Computer Studies lessons conducted with a crowd of kids surrounding the BBC Micro. Amazing as its history was, the humble Beeb was actually quite an impressive machine, with decent sound chips, 64KB plus memory in the B+ range, plenty of connectivity and room for expansion, floppy disks, and a lovely big keyboard. There was something wholesome about the BBC Micro that appealed to everyone who used one. BeebEm is an emulator designed to copy the exact functions, look and feel of the classic BBC Micro model B/B+ and Master 128 systems. It was originally developed by Dave Gilbert back in the mid-nineties, when the Beeb was finally discontinued; since then, it has been maintained and improved on by several clever coders for a number of different systems.

The use of BeebEm is extremely simple, just, currently 4.14, and install then run. You’ll then be looking at a familiar black screen with white command prompt text, with which you can enter all sorts of usual BASIC commands. On the top of the emulator window you’ll find a wealth of options that will allow you to change the machine from the standard Model B, to a B+, Master 128 and so on, as well as options to further enhance the machine with a second processor (Z80, ARM or 65C02), and alter the timings, display, and sound. Within the menus we have the ability to configure and emulate joysticks, the keyboard, up to four 1541 disc drives, the C2N tape recorder, and much more. What makes CCS64 a little more interesting than the normal emulator, is that the menu options are represented in the main C64 screen. So rather than running through the top menus, if you were to use this emulator full screen for example, you would navigate them via the actual C64 console. It’s an odd, but nice touch.

Atari ST Emulating the Atari ST is a labour of love, especially since it was, at the time, the poorer cousin to the global monster that was the Amiga. Still Atari managed to shift a fair few ST’s but not enough to warrant the continuation of the line after 1993.

The ST itself was a pretty good machine. Using GEM as the operating system of choice, it was one of the many 16-bit home computers that legions of former 8-bit users flocked to. Although it wasn’t as popular as the Amiga, it did very well in the European market, especially Germany, and was well used by musicians at the time. Steem is an Atari ST emulator developed by brothers Anthony and Russell Hayward, who spent many years fine-tuning the program to incorporate all manner of Atari ST goodness into its inner workings. However, they stopped development in 2004 at version 3.2.

Since then, there have been some new developments, including a newer version, Steem SSE 3.8.1, which offers better support for disk loading, recorded video, snapshots, support for Pasti (software tools for imaging of original disks), and many improvements over the original code. Steem SSE 3.8.1 is reasonably easy to get to grips with and can be found. Once downloaded, the install runs through a kind of setup wizard that will guide you through the process of getting to the ST desktop, along with locations as to where you’ll find the TOS.

These are only for use if you own the actual machine as we understand they are still under copyright. Amiga The Amiga was, and still is, a hugely popular machine.

It’s fan base and usage is undeniably extensive to say the least, and it is regarded as a machine that was far ahead of its time. It was the king of the 16-bit era, and the granddaddy of many of the operating systems and features we use in a modern PC. WinUAE is a free emulator and one that is capable of emulating pretty much every machine and item of hardware that was ever created for the Amiga. The array of options are enormous, and consequently quite bewildering for someone who isn’t as familiar with Amiga hardware as others are.

However, a Quick Start option will get you up and running fairly quickly, but for one problem. The Kickstart firmware and Workbench are still under license, and unless you either purchase one via the likes of Amiga Forever, or you own an original machine and use the Transrom process in order to copy the image from the original, then you’re not going to get very far with loading the operating system. But if you own, or have downloaded one of the abandonware games or program roms, then you can simply use the aforementioned Quick Start to load up the rom.

To get hold of WinUAE, enter the of the website. Install in the usual manner, and from there you’ll find many options to emulate the various displays, sounds, game ports, IO ports, and disks that the Amiga could utilise, each of which is easy enough to remap into the host PC’s version of Windows. There are also options to further speed up the selected Amiga CPU, or increase the base model RAM to something a lot larger (up to 8MB).

DOS Back in the early nineties the PC had established itself as a machine not just for business, but also for home use. There was a growing number of games available, and hardware was becoming more advanced and more affordable. On top of all this, the operating systems were beginning to mature as well, and MS-DOS, then in its thirteenth year, had grown to become one of the best and most capable operating systems so far.

In its final commercial guise, Microsoft released DOS 6.22, and it was as near perfect as we PC users could ever have hoped for. For those who aren’t familiar with DOSBox, it’s a complete emulation of the traditional DOS 6.22, complete with support for sound, graphics, mouse, keyboard, joysticks, and even modems. It uses its own version of DOS commands and the DOS Prompt, which although they lack many of the features of a true DOS environment, are generally considered to be good enough to load up and play some of the classic games and programs of the era.

It’s also one of the easiest to use emulators of its kind. All you need to do to get up and running on a Windows machine is download the version 0.74 of DOSBox from, install it, then double click the desktop shortcut. Within seconds you’ll be inside a DOSBox DOS prompt window, and you can go about tapping in a few of the familiar commands. In addition to providing a DOS-like environment, DOSBox can also be configured to mimic a particular setup on your current PC. By running the included DOSBox Options batch file, you’ll get a nicely documented set of parameters in Notepad, which include such elements as resolution, memory amount, language and keyboard settings, CPU type and speeds, SoundBlaster or other soundcard settings, networking, and the configuration of the Serial Port. All in all, you could potentially create the PC you had back in the early nineties with very little difficulty.