amiberry VS fs-uae

Should be possible. It seems to be open source, you'll just need to compile it in Termux: https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry

A500 Mini is just an overpriced, very low end device that runs Amiberry, designed to extract money from suckers.

If you edit/change the contents of the whdload_db.xml file inside the boot-data.zip then you can change the per-game settings. I don't know what all the possible settings are but you should be able to make it boot to an Amiga4000-like config (or at least with a faster CPU). Some more details about this at https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amiberry/wiki/WHDLoad-Auto-booting

However, I don't know how to tell the A500mini (or more specifically, the amiberry version running on it) to use these arguments. I've figured out that after opening the game options, a file called "Historyline_v1.5_1569_ol.uae" is created on the USB drive. Based on information found elsewhere, I have manually added the following line to this file:

They're just making money off Amiberry, an easy to use Amiga emulation solution for Raspberry Pi.

I recommend updating the WHDLoad DB XML file in the TheA500 folder. It's in one of the sub folders. The latest XML file can be found here - https://github.com/midwan/amiberry/blob/master/whdboot/game-data/whdload_db.xml.

FWIW, the WinUAE page has always been that minimalist.

UAE was the Unix Amiga Emulator and the original source is now dead, but was forked years ago and the two main versions are WinUAE (for Windows) and FS-UAE (for Linux, Windows and macOS).

FS-UAE has a website more like the one you're expecting: https://fs-uae.net/

...but the link here is to announce that WinUAE just got a new release, not to debate the relative merits of two competing forks of a project and their websites!

If it helps anyone, here's a simple how-to for setting up WinUAE: https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emul...

https://fs-uae.net/ is pretty much the standard Amiga emulator on all platforms. You'll need to source the ROMs from the high seas.

FS-UAE is based on WinUAE and multi-platform (i have it installed on macos and linux). But it seems to be lagging behind with the latest update being from 2021. https://github.com/FrodeSolheim/fs-uae

Thanks for the suggestions. I did see someone write about a battery leaking in a different blog post on a restoration, but I didn't know the battery leak was so common. I'm going to look at it (and remove) now. If the battery has already leaked and damaged the motherboard then I'll likely try using UAE to mount the drive on a PC via SCSI. I'm not familiar with UAE -- I see a github repo for UAE at https://github.com/bernds/UAE and also these sites https://www.winuae.net/ and https://fs-uae.net/ .. would I be able to mount the HD using winuae? Or would you recommend linux with fs-uae, or some other flavor of UAE entirely?