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The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is

For what it's worth I agree with flurdy. It's obvious that it targets Amiga emulation on windows, but what can I expect, whats the user experience?

For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla.

I'm still going to give it a shot though!

> For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla.

Except WinUAE has been there for so long it is already part of the Amiga scene folklore.

It is a windows msi installer, there is not guide needed appart from the usual next --> next --> install and I have personally never seen a screenshot of the gui as a useful resource. So many projects show really nice looking screenshots and then your try the software itself and you find out it is buggy/crashy/misssing features.

FWIW, the WinUAE page has always been that minimalist.

UAE was the Unix Amiga Emulator and the original source is now dead, but was forked years ago and the two main versions are WinUAE (for Windows) and FS-UAE (for Linux, Windows and macOS).

FS-UAE has a website more like the one you're expecting: https://fs-uae.net/

...but the link here is to announce that WinUAE just got a new release, not to debate the relative merits of two competing forks of a project and their websites!

If it helps anyone, here's a simple how-to for setting up WinUAE: https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emul...

How is "WinUAE Amiga Emulator" not a succinct explanation of what WinUAE is?

Mind you, this is something targeting rather specific group (i.e. people who want to emulate Amiga and related machines)

At the very top of the page, in the header, it tells you what it is, an Amiga emulator.

> WinUAE Amiga emulator

perhaps with the passing of time and the state of AI, people might mistake it for an actual girl friend emulator! ;-)

I was always torn between Denise, Paula and Agnus.

As Agnus got older, she got thicc.

Agnus got fat (then fatter and super-fat), Denise turned super, Paula remained true to herself :D

How many people know about Daphne and Portia?

Or Lorraine

Shameless plug... I do!

Big Old List of EVERY Custom Amiga Chip and Chipset Name I Could Find

https://amigasource.com/bol.php

Please visit AmigaSource.com!!! Since 2001... Your BEST source for Amiga information. Again... ** Always Under Construction ** (Over 3000+ Amiga links for your viewing pleasure! -- Please help spread the word!)

Gave a hopeful click, was disappointed.

I expected to see all chip revisions (the multiple agnus, denise, gary, buster...), with any known differences they have.

Instead, it's just a list of custom chips, not covering their versions.

Sorry to hear you're disappointed and it didn't meet your HIGH level of expectations. As I stated this was MY attempt to make the MOST COMPLETE list available of EVERY KNOWN custom chip by NAME for the Amiga and few more added in for good measure! Again BY NAME!! Not perfect but pretty damn complete.

It wasn't meant to be the most comprehensive list with every version, date of manufacture, plant of origin, pin outs, know bugs, voltage & timing charts, die shots, etc... for each of them. Maybe someday but not today...

Hopefully I made it easy enough for anyone to point out errors or to add a bit of information. Just click the 'COMMENT' link.

Now I'll ask YOU... Do you happen to know of a site that has a MORE COMPLETE listing? If so PLEASE do share or maybe you have a list of your own? I would LOVE to compare.

Just trying to do my SMALL part for the community as I have been doing for the past 22 years...

oh and to you point how about this page for starters. Sadly it only exists on archive.org. (For reference see SOURCES #)

or their main page https://web.archive.org/web/20040427055954/http://www.vgr.co...

Wow! Holy triggered Batman! It's 1.) sad that you can't take any constructive criticism and 2.) care so much about the opinion of a stranger on the internet.

The mental instability in the Amiga community is RIFE.

Yup I guess I was a bit 'triggered'. Guilty as charged. Funny how quickly this can happen from a random stranger's comment. Sometimes it's hard not to take things personally and try and defend your work. And in our little dysfunctional, fractured community it does happen from time to time. For what it's worth my reply WAS a bit 'over the top' and for that I do apologize. Trust me I've been around the Amiga community since the beginning and should have known better.

Could have been worded better on my end.

I am loving the page you've linked to, and how they even had the same info in an AmigaGuide. Quite sad that it needs to be through Internet Archive's waybackmachine. Good old WWW is mostly gone.

Again... My overreaction...

Yes I agree. That's a very informative page that we can thank archive.org for saving!

Over the years I have come across a lot of sites & threads that go indepth on certain chips but knowing the amount of work it would involve to sort through and the fact that sometimes the information isn't quite as accurate as they would lead you to beleve I never started to complie it into one big list. But maybe I should start.

Here's a few more sites you might find interesting

-Collection of Amiga part numbers collected while refurbishing repair an Amiga 500 Rev 8.1a in november 2013 https://pmsoft.nl/amiga/amiga-parts-chips.html

-Amiga Realm - RESOURCES: Chipset Part Numbers https://www.amigarealm.com/resources/chipset.htm

-or some detailed info directly from the man himself, Mr Dave Haynie (another one from archive.org) https://web.archive.org/web/20190508234750/www.thule.no/hayn...

-And here's one more link. This is a master listing of Commodore's TECHTOPICS. There are no links from this page but previously I did spend some time and tried to find everone on the list http://www.amiga-stuff.com/service-documentation/commodore-t...

-My quick and dirty page of TT links from above. It's not until # 28 where they start talking about the Amiga https://amigasource.com/techtopics.php

Hopefully this helps!

Very nice, thank you.

You're welcome! And you every want to help making 'the most complete list of Amiga chips and ther versions' feel free to drop me an email at the site. Lord knows I could use the helo! lol

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