Cloanto Amiga Forever CD-ROM Edition

N.B. It may be helpful to go to this link http://www.blizzard.u-net.com/uae_faq.html before reading this opinion. Amiga Forever 5 is an Amiga emulator for Windows based PCs. Q: What is an Amiga? A: The Amiga was perhaps the most effective home computer of the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. It gave outstanding performance in the area of graphics and video manipulation and special effects. Countless films and TV shows used Amiga driven solutions for SFX including Babylon 5 and components of Star trek Next Gen. But this machine got great acclaim as a home games machine! And very good it was too. Q: What is an emulator? ...  Read the complete review

Amiga forever turns your PC into an Amiga. The software can be installed onto your PC and will assign it a virtual Amiga drive with workbench. The software can also be run direct from the CD if you prefer not to install it. Various versions of workbench can be chosen according to the software you wish to run, i.e OS versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2. 1.3 2.0, 2.04, 2.1. Workbench version 3.0 is also suported, but the AGA chip-set is not emulated, therefore specific software using AGA graphics will not run. Although the CD does contain prototype software to run AGA graphics, I have been unable to get this to run properly. Amigas and PCs can also be networked ...  Read the complete review