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Rancul Ratha
The new editions are the result of more than 18 months of uninterrupted work since the previous major release. The active code base now consists of more than half a million lines written by Cloanto, in addition to OS components and independent open source modules of which Cloanto too is a grateful and active contributor.
New features include the ability toautostart the PC into any Amiga configuration, enhanced PowerPC emulation support, custom content folders and playlists, and a "playerless" title playback, preview and editing experience.
By opening up to new ways to manage and access more content, Amiga Forever 7 follows in the footsteps of Cloanto's tradition of disruptive innovation. Emulation and preservation enthusiasts can not only work better and faster than before, but also enjoy additional degrees of freedom, as Amiga Forever encourages the curation of self-contained titles that are designed for long-term access, without being bound to a database or to a single player interface or version. Any title, no matter whether it's a "Classic" Amiga, a PowerPC system, or an 8-bit system (with C64 Forever installed), can now be played back from Windows File Explorer, or by booting the Windows PC into it, without ever launching Amiga Forever, if so desired.
More than in the previous few versions, a substantial amount of work was done under the hood to keep things simple on the surface, yet without limiting possibilities. "We worked very hard to raise the quality bar on all fronts, no matter whether you use Amiga Forever for your own enjoyment, to entertain your friends by surprise-booting a PC into an Amiga or C64, or to start an educational journey with your children or grandchildren.
"The level of improvements and refinements on the input front alone is beyond the scale of what would normally be invested in a project like this," said Cloanto's Mike Battilana. "Months at a time were spent to optimally blend the different features and needs of PC-side game controllers and keyboards with the emulated counterparts. A dedicated group of joystick-armed beta testers kept providing valuable feedback, as even Microsoft engineers helped us best support the latest Xbox controllers. Quite a few DirectInput and XInput API bugs were marked for resolution in the process, again illustrating how demanding the emulation universe can be."
General andtitle-specific input options work hand in hand to enable maximum personalization without unnecessarily reducing title portability, while providing precious information for future touch-enabled playback. Xbox, X-Arcade and I-PAC controllers, and arbitrary keyboard layouts are supported out of the box. Host-side buttons can be assigned to guest-side keys and vice versa, e.g. to use joystick-controlled games on modern systems without a joystick. Virtual buttons make it possible to use modern controller buttons to trigger events that would have required pressing a key like Space or Enter in an Amiga game, or to play CBM 8-bit titles originally designed for keyboard-only use.
Dead keys, double-dead keys, deadable keys, anyone? Amiga Forever knows about all those Amiga keyboard details, and seamlessly integrates them with the modern Unicode world, so that clipboard and keyboard input always work as expected. 8-bit systems were not left behind either, with support for multilingual ROMs in C64 Forever, and systems like the VIC 20, VIC 1001 and C64 even featuring Japanese configurations.
"In spite of the occasional technical prowess, we see the result more as a form of art. We are still aiming for the same excellence and beauty in computing which made us feel so at home with the Amiga and its community in the 1980s and 1990s. As we once again thank our generous customers and contributors for allowing us to keep working on these projects, we invite all Amiga friends to keep engaging with us at events, online and by signing up at cloanto.org."
I've used UAE for quite a while now but always found it difficult to set up and run. Which was why I used Amiga in a box (AIAB) for quiet a while, but that tends to be very limiting in what you can do, but it does save the hassle of having to set the emulator up. So I was very glad to get hold of Cloanto's Amiga forever at the World Amiga show in November.
I've found this the easiest emulator or to use. For a start you have all the Amiga ROM's from 1.3 up to 3.1 included in the package plus with Cloanto's launcher its just one click to launch whichever version of the OS you want to use.Got any older games you want to play? No problem with Amiga Forever, just load up OS 1.3 and run the adf's of all your favourite games. And just press ALT/F4 to quit back to the Windows screen.
Another thing I found with this program was you can insert a CD when the program is running which you can't do with AIAB. With AIAB you have to insert the CD before you start the program, but with Amiga forever you can insert a CD at any time and will pick it up no problem. The only thing I did find doing it this way was the program won't let you install from the CD without first making an assign. The way I got round this was make an assign in the S:User-startup.
Straight out of the box it looks like the picture above, with it's own icon bar at the bottom of the screen. But every Amigan I`ve ever met likes their machine set up to their own likes, and it didn`t take me long to install Opus Magellan and get it running the way I like it.
This version of UAE includes the Just-in-time version of emulation software (Bernd Meyer's JIT code), carefully configured and publicly benchmarked by Cloanto to be 30 times faster than in previous versions of Amiga Forever. The Amiga runs in a window or in full screen mode, makes full use of thousands of Windows (or other OS) drivers, can access PC files (even on NTFS partitions, in the Windows version) and does not require a reboot.
Michael Battilana
No, I do us Amiga International and gateway. The contract was approved after a long talks and discussions and changes by both of them. And it was signed and represented by both gateway and Amiga International, a lot
Shane R. Monroe
now Amiga forever actually contains not just kickstart one bad three, and you know, Workbench 1.3 Basically you get it all right go down the list of because a lot of guys people who are least familiar with the mega know that the Amiga went through a lot of changes from 1.1 to 3.1 give them an idea just kind of rattle off all the things they
Michael Battilana
CDTV especial wrong CD 32 roms all the way to the latest ROMs. And for three, nine, some parts we had to license directly like the latest web browser and so on so that people get more than just the bare bones system. For example. Up to one three, Komodo had the speech synthesis, right, or there were tools like fast phones and other utilities in Workbench which had separate contracts and licenses which expired. So technically, our contract with the mega companies is not enough to give you that we had to find the people doing speech synthesis, you
Shane R. Monroe
given their product. I was asked for support for making a box and when even their product. Oh, so just just for getting just to give an overview so that he understands what the difference between Amiga and Abaqus and Amiga forever is.
Shane R. Monroe
So so they so if they decide that they really get into an Amiga emulation what they want, but they want to go out and get the deathbed vigil videos and all that other stuff. easy upgrade path, not a real problem.
Long story short, back in the early 90s Commodore, a company that for close to two decades ranked as a giant of computing, collapsed. Years of mismanagement, poor leadership, if not outright shameful, had taken its toll on the once fierce giant; And as the saying goes: the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And boy did Commodore fall.
So all that buying and selling we saw in the 90s, with Amiga changing hands left and right, had nothing to do with saving the Amiga. The Commodore legacy was reduced to a piece of meat and thrownto the wolves, each ripping into its patents left and right. So while graphic, the piece of meat in this analogy held an estimated value of a billion dollars.
When Commodore fell, the vultures moved in quickly. People have focused so much on the Amiga computer and branding aspect of Commodore, that we often neglect that the true value of such a giant was never the end-product, but the intrinsic values of their patents and technological inventions.
Very few knew the identity of the party now in possession of the Commodore patent portfolio until quite recently. It caused quite a stir online when I published the name of the owner last year (both on this blog and Amiga Disrupt on Facebook).
To give you some examples of the epic battles at hand: they have argued in court over the right to use a checkered bathing ball, you know those you can buy almost anywhere and that resemble a french table-cloth? Oh yes I kid ye not.
It can be difficult to distinguish between Hyperion and Aeon, so lets start with a few words about that. Hyperion is ultimately a software company. They started (if I recall correctly) as software house porting PC games to the Amiga platform.
Until recently Aeon and Hyperion have focused completely on their Next Generation system. Aeon creates the hardware and Hyperion does the software. Hyperion also offers the older legacy roms and Workbench in their webshop. But until recently they have been more interested in selling next-generation software and machines.
The response from the community was quite frankly outstanding. Finally a proper update for both Workbench and the kernel! Everyone was ecstatic and the whole scene was filled with positive hopes that things were finally moving forward. This was after all the first real update since Napoleon was in office!
So the reason Cloanto took Hyperion to court for the 13th thousand time, has nothing to with open-source (a rumour that was planted before Xmas). It is motivated purely by greed and the fear that the Amiga might actually spring back to life.
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