PocketUAE

With the porting of the UAE (the Ultimate Amiga Emulator) to Pocket PC you can play your Amiga stuff again, on your Pocket PC. Download the binary for PocketUAE here. You’ll need to track down those little buggers, you know, the kickstart disks– Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1– remember them?
This is perhaps one of the most important PocketPC emulator ports. It uses UAE as a base, but the the next version will be based on Experimental UAE.

I think I don’t have to say too much, everybody knows Amiga :)

Here are some of the supported features:

  • support for up to 4 Floppy Drives
  • 68000/010/020/040 CPU, optionally a 68881 FPU
  • OCS, ECS and AGA Graphics Chipset (including sprite-playfield collisions)
  • Up to 2MB Chip RAM and up to 8MB Fast RAM, or 8MB Chip RAM without Fast RAM
  • Up to 64MB Zorro III Fast RAM, independent of Chip RAM setting (68020+ only)
  • Up to 1MB Slow RAM, for extended compatibility with problem software
  • A hard-disk: either a harddisk image file or part of the native filesystem
  • Mouse and Joystick support (Stylus and D-Pad on PocketPC)
  • On-Screen Keyboard on QVGA devices

The last release of PocketUAE brings the long awaited support for configurable buttons (finally). You also have the option now to choose between 2 different graphic drivers (GAPI/DIB). With the DIB driver you may run PocketUAE in windowed mode again. Additionally, a mode for lefthanded people was added. Another option, which may be useful for a lot of people which have start-up problems, is ‘debugoutput’. With this option enabled, PocketUAE logs its output to two files ’stdout.txt’ & ’stderr.txt’. Finally tracked down a bug in the sound output driver which slowed PocketUAE down alot. With this bug fixed PocketUAE runs much faster here and without sound problems for most games; sometimes even with a frameskip of 2 & CPU/Chip ratio of 7! Try to select to smallest ‘Max. Sound Buffer’ value [2048] and a frequency of 11,025 Hz; if you get hickups in the sound enlarge your buffer a bit and try again. As always, the downloadable package includes the latest version of Munk’s PocketUAE Launcher (which of course supports all the new options like button setting, etc.) However, there some things left to do:On-screen keyboard is not available when running under the DIB video driver Keyboard drawing problem when using lefthanded mode and GAPI video driver (keyboard is on the top of the screen and rotated)

Ismail Khatib had made available the first Commodore Amiga emulator that runs on your small Pocket PC screen.

Download:

PocketUAE

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