YOU WOULDN’T DOWNLOAD AN AMIGA…

The Amiga Kickstart ROMs are still copyrighted, but can be legally purchased from Cloanto’s Amiga Forever. You need these files to do almost anything with an Amiga emulator. As well as that you’ll need some disk images (most commonly in the form of ADF images). Some websites have been given permission by the original developers to distribute their games. For example, Team17 titles are available from http:// dream17.abime.net and Gremlin games are available at http://gremlinworld. emuunlim.com/amiga.htm. And of course, Amiga Format cover discs from back in the day are easy to find.

We asked Dimitris where else interested readers can find Amiga software, legally. “Amiga Forever is the legal way of obtaining Amiga Kickstart ROMs (and AmigaOS 1.3-3.1), if you don’t have them already. Another way is to copy them from the real hardware, if you have it around (there are special tools for this task available on Aminet).

“There’s a new version of AmigaOS 3 out by another company (Hyperion), if you want to explore that as well. The current version is AmigaOS 3.2.1, and it comes with its own Kickstart ROM.

“If you want to emulate a graphics card and use a desktop with highresolution 24-/32-bit colour, then you’ll also need P96 installed – there’s a free version available on Aminet, while Individual Computers continues to develop newer versions commercially, as well. Both will work with Amiberry. And then there’s the free and open-source AROS project, which also works fine on Amiberry. The AROS kickstart ROM is included in the Amiberry repository.

“Regarding games, there are also the Factor 5 classics that are available for free at www.factor5.com/downloads. shtml. And of course, Aminet has a big collection of games, among other things: https://aminet.net.”