AMIGA Emulator Questions

[HexeR]

Just a couple questions for the Amiga emulator:

1 - When switching a disk, it comes up with "waiting for bootable media", despite the previous disk having worked perfectly fine. Both disks came from the same source, so I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do here.

2 - Sometimes it doesn't even show that it's waiting, it just goes to a glitchy UI with an orange mouse cursor and 2 parallel windows. What's the deal with that?

3 - In general, how do I change my layout, and if the game requires a joystick, I don't need a joystick myself, do I?

[Modern Retro Gamer (UK)]

1 - Without knowing specifics it's nigh on impossible to answer. Generally Kickstart 1.3 doesn't like multiple disk drives and prefers disk swapping in the first drive. Kickstart 2+ seems better at finding disks across multiple drives.

That said, it's generally recommended to use .m3u playlists for multi disk games rather than manually disk swapping in the UI.

2 - sounds like a standard AmigaDOS/Workbench 1.x screen. Without more detail impossible to answer.

3 - Retroarch controls are set up the same way in all cores. Core specific mapping are found in the RetroArch quick menu.


Side note - might be worth downloading the free version of AmigaForever (somewhat official standalone Amiga emulator) and having a play with the system from there first. Learn more about what the Amiga was and how it worked originally.

[HexeR]

Originally posted by Linux Retro Gamer:

1 - Without knowing specifics it's nigh on impossible to answer. Generally Kickstart 1.3 doesn't like multiple disk drives and prefers disk swapping in the first drive. Kickstart 2+ seems better at finding disks across multiple drives.

That said, it's generally recommended to use .m3u playlists for multi disk games rather than manually disk swapping in the UI.

2 - sounds like a standard AmigaDOS/Workbench 1.x screen. Without more detail impossible to answer.

3 - Retroarch controls are set up the same way in all cores. Core specific mapping are found in the RetroArch quick menu.


Side note - might be worth downloading the free version of AmigaForever (somewhat official standalone Amiga emulator) and having a play with the system from there first. Learn more about what the Amiga was and how it worked originally.

1 - It might be disk-swapping. Is there a specific way to do it? When I run the emulator I just use "load content" to load the next disk.

2 - It probably is the workbench. Any reason why it would go to the workbench? Is the disk incompatible?

3 - I'll check the quick menu.

[HexeR]

Originally posted by Linux Retro Gamer:

1 - Without knowing specifics it's nigh on impossible to answer. Generally Kickstart 1.3 doesn't like multiple disk drives and prefers disk swapping in the first drive. Kickstart 2+ seems better at finding disks across multiple drives.

That said, it's generally recommended to use .m3u playlists for multi disk games rather than manually disk swapping in the UI.

2 - sounds like a standard AmigaDOS/Workbench 1.x screen. Without more detail impossible to answer.

3 - Retroarch controls are set up the same way in all cores. Core specific mapping are found in the RetroArch quick menu.


Side note - might be worth downloading the free version of AmigaForever (somewhat official standalone Amiga emulator) and having a play with the system from there first. Learn more about what the Amiga was and how it worked originally.

So I downloaded the kickstart ROMS, as that was the problem, and I figured out that I needed to make M3U files for multi-disk games, but....For a number of games, after I run them, and their intro plays, it just keeps looping, no matter what button I press or how long I wait....

[Modern Retro Gamer (UK)]

Without knowing specifics its impossible to answer these types of questions. I can only respond with vague guesses.

I've found setting the Emulation to Amiga 500+ with 1mb RAM and Kickstart 2.04 works best.

As does .m3u playlists for multidisk games.

I suspect these game intros you talk about are the scene demos from cracked versions of games.

If that's the case they are typically exited using the mouse buttons. So you'll need to either plug in a mouse or double check in the quick menu how mouse emulation is being handled.

[HexeR]

Originally posted by Linux Retro Gamer:

Without knowing specifics its impossible to answer these types of questions. I can only respond with vague guesses.

I've found setting the Emulation to Amiga 500+ with 1mb RAM and Kickstart 2.04 works best.

As does .m3u playlists for multidisk games.

I suspect these game intros you talk about are the scene demos from cracked versions of games.

If that's the case they are typically exited using the mouse buttons. So you'll need to either plug in a mouse or double check in the quick menu how mouse emulation is being handled.

I'm not talking about the cracked intro's. I'm referring to the actual game intros. Like for Blinky's Scary School, the intro screen with the game theme just keeps looping indefinitely, no matter what I press on keyboard or mouse.