fs-uae VS WinUAE

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?

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?

WinUAE

Have you submitted an issue on their GitHub?

If any one else is interested WinUAE is an emulator, you can also run Amiga on some older mac's.

There absolutely is. WinUAE is the best emulator for Amiga out there. You will need to provide the emulator with an Amiga BIOS and OS (not linking to that for legal reasons, you'll have to hunt those down yourself) but once you get everything set up, it works great!

For 68k there's also the cputester written by Toni Willen of WinUAE fame, which is extremely elaborate. For cycle accuracy testing you either need (pretty good) amiga custom chip support or modify the test program. FWIW he's working on an IPL accuracy tester, but the timing of some instructions are still being worked on.