Many games used to (slowly) load an intro with thumping music and an animation, but after hitting fire on my joystick I’d be prompted to “Enter disc 2” for yet more loading.Įnter WHDLoad, a system that patched games so they could be loaded from a hard disk image. I never did so I put up with the relatively slow loading of the discs.Īs I have been spoiled by much faster loading of modern systems, loading games from discs in an emulator soon became a bore. To load games and apps on the Amiga you used 3.5 inch discs but if you had a hard disk back then the Amiga supported it. FS-UAE is a great port I use on Mac and Amiberry or Amibian use the uae4arm port that runs on Raspberry Pi boards. WinUAE is the best Amiga emulator for modern systems and it has been ported to many operating systems.
The Commodore Amiga was an amazing 16 bit computer of the 80’s and 90’s and is still used today by people who love the system. I am very excited about trying this on my Raspberry Pi 400! This Reddit thread has more info and a useful comment linking to PiShrink that will reduce the size of the image from 32GB to 20GB. The password on the archive is still pimiga but I haven’t tested it yet, it’s still downloading.
PiMIGA 1.3 is available as a torrent, so download it with your favourite torrent client.
