Nice! I wrote a few Amiga games back in the 80's and I still make Tracker music for fun, so it's awesome to see the Amiga emulation revival come to Raspberry Pi! It makes me want to fire up the old DevPak Assembler and start making the blitter do clever tricks again.
Awesome video thanks Dan! As you know rveryone is really jumping onto Raspberry Pi Amigas now in the community. Its a great way also to ressurect an old dead Amiga by replacing the board with a Raspberry Pi and then using a Keyrah V2 Interface to use a real Amiga keyboard with the Pi. People are now creating Pimigas (including myself!) usually out of Amiga 600 cases. Which essentially turns a dead Amiga 600 into a high end Amiga system far faster than the real thing with full internet access via wifi. Your tutorial is a great start for it! One thing you did miss out, which I think is quite important, is the option to stop the emulator starting automatically. So you literally turn the raspberry pi on, and it'll boot to the kickstart screen or boot into Workbench. Some people have also managed to modify amibian to remove linux loading and boot screens to to give a real authentic Amiga feel. When I've finished my Pi Amiga I'll post some pictures and a blog on the retro FPGA group on Facebook. Cheers again from a fan!
Greetings from Canada. I'm so excited to have found you and your podcasts. I have been looking for a good quality Amiga show from across the pond for decades! Love the interviews (especially from the demo scene) and product insight. Keep up the good work m8!
Brings a tear to my eye when I think about many happy hours playing on my Amiga 1200 and mega drive ( brother had a SNES ) just the best days of my life as a kid.
Ahhhh just seeing those classic games put a lump in my throat!! I used to play Addams family so much in the old days but forgot what it looked like till I watched your vid. It instantly took me back like it was yesterday.. Great vide mate!
Thank you Dan...You're very Knowledgeable about pretty much all things Commodore and Amiga!...I've Gained a lot of knowledge from watching you...Keep up the good work....
Many thanks for the video. I had an Amiga from 1987-1993 before migrating to a 486 PC. After a long break I got back into the Amiga via Cloanto's Amiga Forever 2014 and the later upgrade to the 2016 version. So, after watching your excellent video and after a little bit of effort I now have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Amibian, KS 3.1 and Classic WB 3 with WHDLoad to get a bit of Amiga gaming nostalgia.
This Nexus 7 demo, im so glad i did the WinUAE Amiga configs. Found a ADF version of the Andromeda Nexus demo at 6 am. Demo did not wont to run on a A1200, but the A4000 with scanlines done the magic, awesome demo! Andromeda was always in my fovour. After some sleep will get some more newer demos :) I fire up the emulator every now and then, the real deal A500 is still by me..... These were some nice moments i had with this outstanding machine! THX for sharing M8.
Great stuff Dan, i still have my Amiga 500 but i am going to do this on my PI3 in a bit. You have really got me re inspired to the Amiga (your xcopy vid was also great to watch) Hopefully ill be playing Speedball 2 very soon along with a bit of Cannon fodder :D
Thanks for the video, really informative. I just bought a raspberry pi 3 just for this reason, i had an Amiga 500 and 1200 back in the day, they don`t make games like they used to anymore and i wanted to revisit some of them, i would love to get my hands on a real machine again, hopefully one day. Cheers for the tutorial
I love the Pi! It's an Acorn Archimedes, old school console emulator, media player, Linux computer, industrial controller and now an Amiga all just by switching the SD card!
Had problems with installing to a new Raspberry Pi 4 so I contacted Gunnar (Amibian site) and found it will not work on Raspberry Pi v4 - here is his answer. it only works on raspberry pi until 3b. Then just ignore the messages about the card not being formatted after you flash, it comes because after flashing it is formatted to a file system that is not supported by your home PC. So thank you Gunnar Kristjánsson from amibian. So close for me and yet so far, I will get there eventually. So nice video Dan and keep going with the Amiga Keep safe & thanks all
hey Dan thanks for this. Surprisingly despite you saying so there are zero instruction guides on RUclips for setting these systems up. Ideally I'd like to see you show us how to set up a classic A500 in detail as well as how to configure a workbench for both the A500 and A1200. Also alternative configuration for the A1200 to the max and finally how to get WHDLoad running on the Workbench too. I know you're a busy guy but right now you're our only hope. Thanks Lawbag
Great video mate! As for the kickstarts there is another way, you can grab your own roms if you have a real amiga. There is a utility on aminet called grabkick, you just run it and dumps the rom on your hard disk. If you don't have an HD Amiga, you can make a bootable floppy or run it via Workbench disk. Copy the grabkick file on an empty disk and it will be enough free room to dump it in the same disk.
+Retro Tech 100 I think RUclips have had some issues recently, I've noticed lots of other channels have lost subscribers accidentally. Thanks for resubscribing!
Brilliant, just the tutorial I've been looking for. I tried to set mine up last week but made some errors. Your video has cleared that up for me. Many thanks Dan!
Hi all.... I have just tried this on my old Raspberry Pi 1 model B+.... I can confirm that the emulation works fine on these once overclocked however due to the lack of processing power i was unable to play games (It simply crashes)... It has been fine to a degree playing some of the old Amiga Demos but it does slow down at the more demanding sequences and causes the music to slow and crackle like you've just put your hand on a old record that's playing.... All that said, its been great to see one of my favorite Amiga demos that iv'e not seen for 23 years :)
Has got a lot better in recent years. On the 400 now it’s supported finally. I tried half a dozen games last night. Each one played without needing a single trip to the config screen. Top Tip.if you put every multi disk game in its own folder, more often than not you don’t need to click anything to swap disks.
Dan! I've been setting up my amibian. I'm going to do some digging on the problem I'm having but thought I'd ask here in case it's an obvious thing.... I've got the kick-start rom path and the floppy path definately pointing to the correct files. I've set the amibian settings as you have them in your vid... But when I hit start I just get a blank screen. No game I try will load. I've also tried all the kickstart roms. Ever experienced that issue? I'll go hunting on the forums.... I'm so close but feel so far from getting that amiga experience on my pi!
Amazing video.....went and ordered myself an rpi3 just to do this. Would really love to see a quickstart guide on setting up with 3.1 (or 3.9). How you get a better resolution, how to copy files onto the virtual hard disk and once again how to use whdload. A real inspiring video.
Have you used any cooling solutions with your Pi for this? The information I've found elsewhere is that the Pi overheats a lot with emulators (especially ones that run continuously) and that it's advisable to add a heatsink at the very least.
Hi Dan, I also like to get the Amiga OS 3.9 to my raspberrypi amiberry UEA at 20:35 . Where can I get the hdd images an how is it configured in UEA ? Can you help
does this amibian have better performance than retropie's amiga emulator? if not, then retropie is better if you also want all the other retro emulators all bundled onto one sdcard.
The Amiga Essentials price is up to £1.79 now. Still, not too bad for an Amiga, I suppose. Even as an Atari ST guy. ;) I needed the roms for WinUAE, so thanks for pointing out where to buy them.
interesting tutorial! Could you point out where are the tutorials to run the full WB from HDF file? Also did you try Happiga? That distro seems beefier
Dan thank you for this tutorial. I have a few questions for you, Im not that interested in games though. 1) where can i find a pre-made image of the one with the whole desktop etc with the whd load. 2) I have the amiga forever software.. whats the difference in using that on the PC instead of going to the raspberry pi? I do have 2 raspberry pies but it seems more difficult than just doing it on the pc. 3) if I do run the desktop image on the raspberry with workbench 3.9 will it work like a amiga 4000? Sorry I am more or less novice to the amiga even though I bought a used amiga 1200 in good shape etc... I never had the time to fiddle with it! thanks !
your a lot younger to then me but damn Dan hearing you talk reminds me of the good old days, but the first computer I say and touched were Altair and commodore pet but wow emulating the Amiga's power on a raspberry Pi amazing times:)
Looks great, other than the cool factor of having you PI run as a Amiga, why use this over say a standard PC emulator, I've not tried one of late but I assume you can do all you did here on the PI on a standard PC?
I was wondering the same, but from the limited research, Amiga emus on PC have some lag and not always 100% compatible with some tricky timing specific apps. If anyone has more info on some great Amiga emus on PC, please drop a line or two. Also, any good Amiga emus on smart phones?
When you say "almost 100%" which or what type of apps do not work properly, and what happens, do they crash or just don't run at all. How are multi disk games handled? Thanks.
Don't know exactly, I read some demos won't work properly, but that was a few years ago. I think winuae is so advanced now your won't know the difference. Perhaps you give it a try, you only need some kickstart files. Switching Floppys is as easy as in the pie emulator. The program looks also very similar in usage.
You mean as easy to switch foloppies as on the RasberryPi emulator? Why would one bother the RasberryPi hardware when you can emulate it just as well on a PC? hmmm... sorry about all the questions I'm just trying to decide which one to go with.
Dan have you ever tried matrixing up an amiga keyboard? I have an old A1200 case with keyboard and I'm wanting to put maybe a RasPi or maybe a x86 based SBC inside it and boot it directly into UAE. It'd be cool if I could get the actual Amiga keyboard to work.
Just found this video, getting new to the Raspberry pi thing, but HOLY SHIT!! this will be my new project as soon as i have a RPI3 :) A whole new world just openend up to me .
Brilliant! Thanks for this Dan, I have a Pi and will be having a crack at this.. I need to get that joystick too. I need to play me some Fire and Ice - it reminds me of Christmas so much.
Hi Dan. I have set up my Pi 3 using the Amibian distro like yourself, however I am convinced the audio is slightly late and no matter what I try I cannot get the sound in perfect sync. This is mostly obvious in one of my favorite games, Turrican. When firing there is a clear delay before the sound is heard. I fired it up on my real Amiga 500 machine to make sure that it wasn't just my OCD working overtime but sadly it isn't and the delay really spoils it for me lol. Did you notice anything like that?
Great introduction on Amibian Dan, it now means I now have to bi a pi :), and hopefully in a newer Amib revision Gunnar will have a speed increase for the floppy load time just like in WinUAE
what emulator is being used by amibian? Is it winuae under wine? Is it a version of e-uae or fs-uae? Thanks for your great videos. I always enjoy them!
Hello Dan I've been busy installing classic amiga OS 3.9 on Amibian but the only thing i can't get working is the resolution... I'm stuck at 640x256, and that looks very crappy on a fullHD tv... can you give me some pointers on that? Thanks, Roelof
Oh, great video!! I would love to see a tutorial on how to set up the a4000, or a link to a tutorial! :) Is it possible to emulate an a1200 with a 060 acc?
I'm not sure what the current state of it is as it's been a **long** time since I went anywhere near the source, but Fast Copper used a much more streamlined Copper emulation core at the expense of compatibility: collision detection and list timings suffered, potentially leading to anything from broken gameplay to the emulated machine crashing, but in the early days many PCs struggled to run the emulation at a decent speed so it was a useful tradeoff; moderns PCs generally have more than enough grunt to do it "properly" so on the whole there's no need to use the Fast mode, but I've not tried it on the Pi so possibly it's still a "leave it on Fast if it works" thing. As for the Blitter, setting it to "immediate" is less accurate but *much* quicker -- I'm a little rusty on the technical details, but IIRC it performs the blit operation "outside" of the emulation so anything that relies on bus contention for timing or makes assumptions based on when a blit operation will start and end will run into problems. If you're running Workbench (particularly if you've increased colour depth) or OS-friendly applications it's completely safe, but for games there's the same caveat as the Copper: you'll get better speed, but it may not work. (I can't tell if the option is gone or whether it's just not exposed in the UI, but there used to be a "use cycle-exact CPU and blitter timings" choice which let you have the fast blitting but solved the timing issues; it may be available by manually editing config files, in which case it's another thing to consider when trying to balance performance and stability.)
Dan.How do you get rid of those 2x black side borders on the screen of Amibian please.It's got me puzzled as i want my emulated Amiga to be in full screen mode.Any ideas please ?
Frankly all that copyright nonsense is overwritten by common sense 1.0 - I am all for copyrights etc. but for a system that doesn't exist anymore and isn't marketed anywhere ? no. Of course this doesn't extend to the ROMs which are still available at a fair price and that should not only be respected but rewarded ! But being forced to buy ridiculously overpriced fourth hand software from ebay ? nope.
Any plans to follow this up with a tutorial on installing a complete Workbench set-up on the Raspberry Pi? That really would be useful, would be great to turn my Pi in to a usable Amiga computer.
Great tutorial Dan, I still have my Amiga 2000 which hasn't been used for over 20 years due to my monitor dying. Might have to try this. Do you have tutorials howto copy original disks? I assume it needs to be done on an original Amiga. Any way to get around this legally as mentioned I don't have a monitor and don't want to get extra hardware to hook up a modern monitor.
Is it possible to use music composing software like trackers with it? I assume that yes if using just amiga samples, but how about MIDI? I used to do music with A500 which had MIDI IO box. I did pretty much nothing else with the whole amiga but music and I got so used to OctaMED Pro v4 tracker that it was hard to learn any other sequencer after that. All kb shortcuts were deeply programmed to my subconscious. :D Now when old amigas have their retro boosted prices it might be cheaper to put up similar studio as back then in ninetees, but with Raspberry Pi. I'm not familiar with it yet but I have used virtualization tech from hyper-v and vm-ware in past years so I guess it wouldnt be impossible for me to learn how to setup this. Although, I don't go there if it's not possible to get MIDI work with HW synths. So.. is it possible to use MIDI from this kind of virtual Amiga setup? Anyone? :)
Dan, this video is awesome. The first one i've found that someone who loved his Amiga, but doesn't know every part of it's insides can understand! :) That said, a week later i'm still looking for these "loads" of tutorials on the next steps and i'm usually good on finding whatever corner of the interwebs i need. I'm just wanting to get this gorgeous pi-miga up and running with workbench and those whd folders but i'm struggling, could you point us in a direction? Thanks :)
Nice! I wrote a few Amiga games back in the 80's and I still make Tracker music for fun, so it's awesome to see the Amiga emulation revival come to Raspberry Pi! It makes me want to fire up the old DevPak Assembler and start making the blitter do clever tricks again.
Could you please link your games? Thanks!
Awesome video thanks Dan! As you know rveryone is really jumping onto Raspberry Pi Amigas now in the community. Its a great way also to ressurect an old dead Amiga by replacing the board with a Raspberry Pi and then using a Keyrah V2 Interface to use a real Amiga keyboard with the Pi. People are now creating Pimigas (including myself!) usually out of Amiga 600 cases. Which essentially turns a dead Amiga 600 into a high end Amiga system far faster than the real thing with full internet access via wifi. Your tutorial is a great start for it!
One thing you did miss out, which I think is quite important, is the option to stop the emulator starting automatically. So you literally turn the raspberry pi on, and it'll boot to the kickstart screen or boot into Workbench. Some people have also managed to modify amibian to remove linux loading and boot screens to to give a real authentic Amiga feel.
When I've finished my Pi Amiga I'll post some pictures and a blog on the retro FPGA group on Facebook.
Cheers again from a fan!
That's a brilliant idea, especially for tinkerers with a bit of soldering knowledge, could create some awesome power Amigas. :)
Greetings from Canada. I'm so excited to have found you and your podcasts. I have been looking for a good quality Amiga show from across the pond for decades! Love the interviews (especially from the demo scene) and product insight. Keep up the good work m8!
After playing with an Amiga 500 a couple of weeks back for the first time ever, I've just ordered a new Pi for this project :)
Brings a tear to my eye when I think about many happy hours playing on my Amiga 1200 and mega drive ( brother had a SNES ) just the best days of my life as a kid.
Ahhhh just seeing those classic games put a lump in my throat!! I used to play Addams family so much in the old days but forgot what it looked like till I watched your vid. It instantly took me back like it was yesterday.. Great vide mate!
Thank you Dan...You're very Knowledgeable about pretty much all things Commodore and Amiga!...I've Gained a lot of knowledge from watching you...Keep up the good work....
+Minh A. Tran thanks Minh!
I second that sir! :)
Recently discovered your videos. I share your passion for old machines, and you are a great presenter, so it's great to watch 'em!
Thanks! Glad you like the vids :)
Many thanks for the video. I had an Amiga from 1987-1993 before migrating to a 486 PC. After a long break I got back into the Amiga via Cloanto's Amiga Forever 2014 and the later upgrade to the 2016 version. So, after watching your excellent video and after a little bit of effort I now have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Amibian, KS 3.1 and Classic WB 3 with WHDLoad to get a bit of Amiga gaming nostalgia.
I said goodbye to my Amiga 500 back in about 96/97. I’m going to build one of these. I still miss the Amiga.
This Nexus 7 demo, im so glad i did the WinUAE Amiga configs. Found a ADF version of the Andromeda Nexus demo at 6 am.
Demo did not wont to run on a A1200, but the A4000 with scanlines done the magic, awesome demo! Andromeda was always
in my fovour. After some sleep will get some more newer demos :) I fire up the emulator every now and then, the real deal A500
is still by me..... These were some nice moments i had with this outstanding machine! THX for sharing M8.
Thank you for the video. We could not afford an Amiga when it came out. This gives me a chance to live out one of my childhood dreams.
holy cow i just found out that you are the guy from the retro hour podcast! haha
big fan of that show :D
Haha, glad you like the show!
Your knowledge and love of the Amiga is infectious :) great video and subscribed !
Great stuff Dan, i still have my Amiga 500 but i am going to do this on my PI3 in a bit. You have really got me re inspired to the Amiga (your xcopy vid was also great to watch) Hopefully ill be playing Speedball 2 very soon along with a bit of Cannon fodder :D
Always great to see Amiga content. Thank you very much!
Thanks for the video, really informative. I just bought a raspberry pi 3 just for this reason, i had an Amiga 500 and 1200 back in the day, they don`t make games like they used to anymore and i wanted to revisit some of them, i would love to get my hands on a real machine again, hopefully one day. Cheers for the tutorial
Hey there. Can you please do a tutorial on how you did the A4000 emulation or point to videos? Thanks!
I love the Pi! It's an Acorn Archimedes, old school console emulator, media player, Linux computer, industrial controller and now an Amiga all just by switching the SD card!
Had problems with installing to a new Raspberry Pi 4 so I contacted Gunnar (Amibian site) and found it will not work on Raspberry Pi v4 - here is his answer.
it only works on raspberry pi until 3b.
Then just ignore the messages about the card not being formatted after you flash, it comes because after flashing it is formatted to a file system that is not supported by your home PC.
So thank you Gunnar Kristjánsson from amibian. So close for me and yet so far, I will get there eventually. So nice video Dan and keep going with the Amiga
Keep safe & thanks all
Thanks for posting, I just followed this and it worked first time, just spent the last hour playing Rick Dangerous!
hey Dan thanks for this. Surprisingly despite you saying so there are zero instruction guides on RUclips for setting these systems up. Ideally I'd like to see you show us how to set up a classic A500 in detail as well as how to configure a workbench for both the A500 and A1200. Also alternative configuration for the A1200 to the max and finally how to get WHDLoad running on the Workbench too. I know you're a busy guy but right now you're our only hope. Thanks Lawbag
Dan, your videos are indispensable. I'm still getting over the Vampire 2 / A600 one! :) Thanks a *lot*
Great video mate!
As for the kickstarts there is another way, you can grab your own roms if you have a real amiga.
There is a utility on aminet called grabkick, you just run it and dumps the rom on your hard disk.
If you don't have an HD Amiga, you can make a bootable floppy or run it via Workbench disk.
Copy the grabkick file on an empty disk and it will be enough free room to dump it in the same disk.
Why do i keep getting unsubscribed from my favourite channels, i hit the bell and everything, i would never miss one of your videos.
+Retro Tech 100 I think RUclips have had some issues recently, I've noticed lots of other channels have lost subscribers accidentally. Thanks for resubscribing!
Great video Dan. Very well explained. I've just managed to set my Pi up using this. Great stuff!
Brilliant, just the tutorial I've been looking for. I tried to set mine up last week but made some errors. Your video has cleared that up for me. Many thanks Dan!
hey dan the pi 400 is out not, would be great for this.
Just recording a video on it today funnily enough 😉
Hi all.... I have just tried this on my old Raspberry Pi 1 model B+.... I can confirm that the emulation works fine on these once overclocked however due to the lack of processing power i was unable to play games (It simply crashes)... It has been fine to a degree playing some of the old Amiga Demos but it does slow down at the more demanding sequences and causes the music to slow and crackle like you've just put your hand on a old record that's playing.... All that said, its been great to see one of my favorite Amiga demos that iv'e not seen for 23 years :)
Wow. that is the most extensive whd_load folder I have ever seen. Nice work.
Has got a lot better in recent years. On the 400 now it’s supported finally. I tried half a dozen games last night. Each one played without needing a single trip to the config screen.
Top Tip.if you put every multi disk game in its own folder, more often than not you don’t need to click anything to swap disks.
Can you hit enter harder?
I know, right?
Dan! I've been setting up my amibian. I'm going to do some digging on the problem I'm having but thought I'd ask here in case it's an obvious thing....
I've got the kick-start rom path and the floppy path definately pointing to the correct files. I've set the amibian settings as you have them in your vid... But when I hit start I just get a blank screen. No game I try will load. I've also tried all the kickstart roms.
Ever experienced that issue?
I'll go hunting on the forums.... I'm so close but feel so far from getting that amiga experience on my pi!
The interface on my Amibian is nothing like your Dan?
Dan,
I was just about to fork out a couple hundred quid for a 1200 on Ebay but no need now. I'll keep hold of my 500 and get this setup. Thanks fella.
Amazing video.....went and ordered myself an rpi3 just to do this.
Would really love to see a quickstart guide on setting up with 3.1 (or 3.9). How you get a better resolution, how to copy files onto the virtual hard disk and once again how to use whdload.
A real inspiring video.
Great video, will you consider doing one on how to setup WorkBench 3.9 in WinUAE with all the HDD's etc?
Hi, does amibian plays .ipf roms??
Have you used any cooling solutions with your Pi for this? The information I've found elsewhere is that the Pi overheats a lot with emulators (especially ones that run continuously) and that it's advisable to add a heatsink at the very least.
Hi Dan, I also like to get the Amiga OS 3.9 to my raspberrypi amiberry UEA at 20:35 . Where can I get the hdd images an how is it configured in UEA ? Can you help
Great Tutorial Dan, Long live the Amiga.
does this amibian have better performance than retropie's amiga emulator? if not, then retropie is better if you also want all the other retro emulators all bundled onto one sdcard.
Super videos Dan. I followed this and was able to set up my Amiga/Pi flawlessly.
Thank you so much
The Amiga Essentials price is up to £1.79 now. Still, not too bad for an Amiga, I suppose. Even as an Atari ST guy. ;) I needed the roms for WinUAE, so thanks for pointing out where to buy them.
Excellent tutorial Dan,
Can you link us to the best youtube tutorial for setting up WHDLoad (hopefully on the Raspberry Pi) ?
yes please
I'll be using this video to make a complete Amiga experience. thanks brother!
Do you commute to the radio station, or do you present from home ?
i got workbench icon on my desktop lol it runs trying to find games on there i used to play lol
interesting tutorial! Could you point out where are the tutorials to run the full WB from HDF file?
Also did you try Happiga? That distro seems beefier
To get the setup like yours on whd can you just copy your sd card to another one like a clone ?
Nice one Dan, you gave me a great reason to buy a Pi3 and setup RetroPi and Amibian, cheers
Dan thank you for this tutorial. I have a few questions for you, Im not that interested in games though. 1) where can i find a pre-made image of the one with the whole desktop etc with the whd load. 2) I have the amiga forever software.. whats the difference in using that on the PC instead of going to the raspberry pi? I do have 2 raspberry pies but it seems more difficult than just doing it on the pc. 3) if I do run the desktop image on the raspberry with workbench 3.9 will it work like a amiga 4000? Sorry I am more or less novice to the amiga even though I bought a used amiga 1200 in good shape etc... I never had the time to fiddle with it! thanks !
your a lot younger to then me but damn Dan hearing you talk reminds me of the good old days, but the first computer I say and touched were Altair and commodore pet but wow emulating the Amiga's power on a raspberry Pi amazing times:)
Dan, does it act like a PAL or NTSC Amiga?
When I startup, the UAE4ARM interface does not fire up, I always get to the blue AMBIAN screen. What's wrong? Help pls :-)
Looks great, other than the cool factor of having you PI run as a Amiga, why use this over say a standard PC emulator, I've not tried one of late but I assume you can do all you did here on the PI on a standard PC?
I was wondering the same, but from the limited research, Amiga emus on PC have some lag and not always 100% compatible with some tricky timing specific apps. If anyone has more info on some great Amiga emus on PC, please drop a line or two. Also, any good Amiga emus on smart phones?
WinUAE in the latest version is very accurate in emulating Amiga Computers. It almost reached 100% compatibility.
When you say "almost 100%" which or what type of apps do not work properly, and what happens, do they crash or just don't run at all. How are multi disk games handled? Thanks.
Don't know exactly, I read some demos won't work properly, but that was a few years ago. I think winuae is so advanced now your won't know the difference. Perhaps you give it a try, you only need some kickstart files. Switching Floppys is as easy as in the pie emulator. The program looks also very similar in usage.
You mean as easy to switch foloppies as on the RasberryPi emulator? Why would one bother the RasberryPi hardware when you can emulate it just as well on a PC? hmmm... sorry about all the questions I'm just trying to decide which one to go with.
Dear Dan, is it possible to get ClassicWB in higher resolution running ... and do you have some hints achieving this task?
Sure, just go into the Preferences directory, and run Screenmode from there.
Great tutorial! Thanks and keep the Amiga vids coming!
Love this! Ordering my Pi now, thanks Dan :)
Dan have you ever tried matrixing up an amiga keyboard? I have an old A1200 case with keyboard and I'm wanting to put maybe a RasPi or maybe a x86 based SBC inside it and boot it directly into UAE. It'd be cool if I could get the actual Amiga keyboard to work.
This is brilliant! I just set one up and currently playing Lemmings. Thanks Dan 👍
I never knew about the Amiga Forever Essentials! Thanks for the tip!
Just found this video, getting new to the Raspberry pi thing, but HOLY SHIT!! this will be my new project as soon as i have a RPI3 :)
A whole new world just openend up to me .
Nice tutorial. I noticed that you captured the video output? from the RASB PI. How/with what are you doing this?
Using an Elgato HD capture device.
mc included, holy heck that is splendid.
Very nice!
I have to buy myself a Pi.
So many exciting things to do with this little computer.
Brilliant! Thanks for this Dan, I have a Pi and will be having a crack at this.. I need to get that joystick too. I need to play me some Fire and Ice - it reminds me of Christmas so much.
Hi Dan. I have set up my Pi 3 using the Amibian distro like yourself, however I am convinced the audio is slightly late and no matter what I try I cannot get the sound in perfect sync. This is mostly obvious in one of my favorite games, Turrican. When firing there is a clear delay before the sound is heard. I fired it up on my real Amiga 500 machine to make sure that it wasn't just my OCD working overtime but sadly it isn't and the delay really spoils it for me lol.
Did you notice anything like that?
58 dislikes come from the people who had their childhood at the wrong time.
Great introduction on Amibian Dan, it now means I now have to bi a pi :), and hopefully in a newer Amib revision Gunnar will have a speed increase for the floppy load time just like in WinUAE
in not new to Amiga just can seen to get amiga os 3.9 installed under Amibian
The Amiga page on your computer does the logo have a hand on it
Hi Dan. How long does the boot take?
Thanks.
Another great video Dan. I'm lucky enough to have my mint A1200 fully set up but this is definitely something worth looking at :)
btw subbed and rang the bell. Loving your content as I get drawn more and more back in time by the pull of the retro itch that must be scratched.
Hi is the Commodore case for sale somewhere ? Thanks
what emulator is being used by amibian? Is it winuae under wine? Is it a version of e-uae or fs-uae? Thanks for your great videos. I always enjoy them!
There's two versions of UAE for arm, and each of them have his own caveats.
Hello Dan
I've been busy installing classic amiga OS 3.9 on Amibian but the only thing i can't get working is the resolution... I'm stuck at 640x256, and that looks very crappy on a fullHD tv... can you give me some pointers on that?
Thanks,
Roelof
Oh, great video!! I would love to see a tutorial on how to set up the a4000, or a link to a tutorial! :) Is it possible to emulate an a1200 with a 060 acc?
I'm not sure what the current state of it is as it's been a **long** time since I went anywhere near the source, but Fast Copper used a much more streamlined Copper emulation core at the expense of compatibility: collision detection and list timings suffered, potentially leading to anything from broken gameplay to the emulated machine crashing, but in the early days many PCs struggled to run the emulation at a decent speed so it was a useful tradeoff; moderns PCs generally have more than enough grunt to do it "properly" so on the whole there's no need to use the Fast mode, but I've not tried it on the Pi so possibly it's still a "leave it on Fast if it works" thing.
As for the Blitter, setting it to "immediate" is less accurate but *much* quicker -- I'm a little rusty on the technical details, but IIRC it performs the blit operation "outside" of the emulation so anything that relies on bus contention for timing or makes assumptions based on when a blit operation will start and end will run into problems. If you're running Workbench (particularly if you've increased colour depth) or OS-friendly applications it's completely safe, but for games there's the same caveat as the Copper: you'll get better speed, but it may not work.
(I can't tell if the option is gone or whether it's just not exposed in the UI, but there used to be a "use cycle-exact CPU and blitter timings" choice which let you have the fast blitting but solved the timing issues; it may be available by manually editing config files, in which case it's another thing to consider when trying to balance performance and stability.)
I bought an Rpi3 and plan to do this with the current version of Amibian. Did you experience any lags, slowdowns or bugs when running AGA games?
Dan.How do you get rid of those 2x black side borders on the screen of Amibian please.It's got me puzzled as i want my emulated Amiga to be in full screen mode.Any ideas please ?
Frankly all that copyright nonsense is overwritten by common sense 1.0 - I am all for copyrights etc. but for a system that doesn't exist anymore and isn't marketed anywhere ? no. Of course this doesn't extend to the ROMs which are still available at a fair price and that should not only be respected but rewarded ! But being forced to buy ridiculously overpriced fourth hand software from ebay ? nope.
ya, but 'fair price' is also subjective. These days, just about anything under copyright will, and can. be argued.
Any plans to follow this up with a tutorial on installing a complete Workbench set-up on the Raspberry Pi? That really would be useful, would be great to turn my Pi in to a usable Amiga computer.
Dan, when looking for a Raspberry Pi 3, I keep seeing Model B associated with it - does that matter? Thanks!
That's the correct one, there is no model A Pi3, it's just named "model B" as the form factor is the same as as the Pi 2 and 1 Model B iirc.
Thanks, my friend!
Hey Dan,
the link provided didnt work anymore...:(
Anychance you upload the amibian package somewhere?
Thanks Dan, can you suggest where I should go for setting up whdload. not done it yet as I still use my proper amiga with a usb drive fitted
Great tutorial Dan, I still have my Amiga 2000 which hasn't been used for over 20 years due to my monitor dying. Might have to try this. Do you have tutorials howto copy original disks? I assume it needs to be done on an original Amiga. Any way to get around this legally as mentioned I don't have a monitor and don't want to get extra hardware to hook up a modern monitor.
Hey Dan how about Midi in / out?
Hi Dan, Thanks for this. How many controllers can we use for this? Is it possible to connect 3 usb joysticks?
Is it possible to use music composing software like trackers with it? I assume that yes if using just amiga samples, but how about MIDI?
I used to do music with A500 which had MIDI IO box. I did pretty much nothing else with the whole amiga but music and I got so used to OctaMED Pro v4 tracker that it was hard to learn any other sequencer after that. All kb shortcuts were deeply programmed to my subconscious. :D
Now when old amigas have their retro boosted prices it might be cheaper to put up similar studio as back then in ninetees, but with Raspberry Pi.
I'm not familiar with it yet but I have used virtualization tech from hyper-v and vm-ware in past years so I guess it wouldnt be impossible for me to learn how to setup this.
Although, I don't go there if it's not possible to get MIDI work with HW synths.
So.. is it possible to use MIDI from this kind of virtual Amiga setup? Anyone? :)
would amigakit emu package work on this?
I’ve got the Kickstart package from Amiga Forever, but struggling to find the actual files... any hints?
Dan, this video is awesome. The first one i've found that someone who loved his Amiga, but doesn't know every part of it's insides can understand! :) That said, a week later i'm still looking for these "loads" of tutorials on the next steps and i'm usually good on finding whatever corner of the interwebs i need. I'm just wanting to get this gorgeous pi-miga up and running with workbench and those whd folders but i'm struggling, could you point us in a direction? Thanks :)
Have you tried using it with WHDload too? a tutorial on that would be good.
I really should have waited until you got to that part of the video where you mention whdload before posting that comment...
I love some of the well put together critisms below. makes me proud of the RUclips community. (that's sarcasm by the way) :)
Do you have any guide how to install amigaos on amibian?
The very best of Commodore's Amiga (as well as C64) is the epic sound
Doesnt retro pie emulate amiga aswell?
safe to assume raspberry pi 3 b+ is good ?