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VAmiga online: Amiga emulator in the browser

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Way back in the 80s, Amiga vs. Atari ST was one of the early fanboi battles in computing :-)

Except, at first, it was mostly in person and in competing computer magazines. And eventually, many of us got our first modems, and got into our first online arguments on dial-up BBSs.

It is in that spirit, that I offer this link to a browser based Atari ST emulator ;-)

https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/

Pfft. the Amiga was obviously and clearly superior to the Atari ;)

More peripherals were made for the Atari ST - if you count the MIDI ports :).

I was working at a Software, Etc. back then. My manager was fully in the Atari camp and I'll admit his spreadsheets were the coolest spreadsheets I had seen. But I had Killing Game Show so there was really no competition.

Has my vote. The ST emulator works on my iPad browser but the Amiga emulator doesn’t.

OK so fed it an A1200 Kickstart rom image. Didn't work. Had a closer look at the settings and alas, no A1200 emulation.

Fed it a 1.3 A500 Kickstart and had a nice bit of nostalgia for the A500 I used to have's 'insert disk' screen (still have a working A1200).

Didn't have any Amiga disk images to hand, so can't comment further.

FWIW, I think the BIOS warnings are overblown these days...the Roms are on Archive.org fer chrissakes!

https://archive.org/download/verifiedbiosfiles/OGA%20BIOS/Am...

Cloanto still sell these and tend to take legal action on individuals who redistribute them without permission.

Ownership of AmigaOS is being disputed between multiple parties.

It's a shame this important piece of computer history hasn't been open sourced.

Not at all. There's long running legal drama ongoing. Refer to the Amiga Documents[0].

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/

So get them from archive.org and let them duke it out.

Check the Amiga class in the C++ source: https://github.com/dirkwhoffmann/vAmiga/blob/master/Emulator...

Hilariously, the instance variables map 1:1 with the chips present on an Amiga motherboard. It's a great display of clean OOP modeling, but it might get messier once they add support for Amiga models with different chipsets.

https://scriptedamigaemulator.net/

Scripted Amiga has the plus of working with AROS and actual ROMs and on IOS and Android

Gave it a quick run with 34.5 (1.3) kickstart and some backup of a workdisk of mine.

It worked as expected from an Amiga 500 (I own 500/600/1200).

There was, however, a pain point in the process. I use i3 as wm, and I do not use GUI file managers... so it took me a lot of effort to figure out I needed to DRAG AND DROP a kickstart rom file. Opening a file dialog with a click somewhere in the interface would be a major UX improvement.

It doesn't say anywhere but it needs WebGL2. Otherwise you just get a blank screen.

Must be why Safari and Firefox both failed for me.

Definitely not for use on iPhone …

Or for use on an Android phone. It is messed up.

those are peripheral

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