See below.

Oh wow... I've never messed with one of them before
Let us know how it goes though

Well, I selected the A4000 for Quick start, hit run, and it appears to be working.



Only problem is that I'm stuck at this screen with the animated floppy icon.

Is it wanting me to do something?

Heh, that is so like my old Atari 800XL.

Having WinUAE with a Kickstart ROM is like a PC with a BIOS ROM. The same condition as you old Amiga machine.
You still need the operating system or a bootable game if you still have it.

jaelanicu wrote:

Heh, that is so like my old Atari 800XL. Having WinUAE with a Kickstart ROM is like a PC with a BIOS ROM. The same condition as you old Amiga machine. You still need the operating system or a bootable game if you still have it.

Huh? No, I was wondering how to get past that screen with the floppy icon.

Also, how do I make it recognize my floppy drive?

Edit: I've been stuck at that Amiga screen with the floppy-going-into-drive animation for over 3 hours now. And yes, I've had the emulation running.

AFAIK WinUAE (old version) can only use floppy disk image files and can't use physical floppy drive.
You'll need the image files for the OS (aka. Workbench).

Use "WinUAE" as the keyword in Wikipedia (read it if you like) and then to the UAE official website for more info.

EDIT: Note that Kickstart and Workbench are copyrighted.

jaelanicu wrote:

AFAIK WinUAE (old version) can only use floppy disk image files and can't use physical floppy drive. You'll need the image files for the OS (aka. Workbench). Use "WinUAE" as the keyword in Wikipedia (read it if you like) and then to the UAE official website for more info. EDIT: Note that Kickstart and Workbench are copyrighted.

I'm trying to emulate the A4000, so I don't think it's using an old version (3. something).

I was referring to the old version of WinUAE that I've tried years ago (v0.8.x.x).
The latest WinUAE should be able to run OS v3.9, but not v4 (the latest and last) since the v4 is for PowerPC only and the A4000 is still based on 68k CPU.

Ok, let me rephrase my original post.

Well, over the past week, I've downloaded WinUAE and I've gotten all the files needed (legally). But I'm not sure what to do now.



Whenever I hit Start it just hangs at that screen for hours with the floppy animation. I'm trying to emulate the A4000.
Configuration: 68040, 3.1 ROM, 2MB Chip + 8MB Fast
Host Config: Host\Windowed.uae

I've tried selecting a floppy disk image I made in WinUAE, but everytime I try to select it I get "The selected floppy disk image is not bootable (boot block checksum error)" so I think my virtual Amiga might not have any floppy drives. I do have an actual floppy drive plugged into my computer that Windows sees. How do I set up everything (like the hard drives, ROM, RAM, Chipset, CPU and FPU, host settings, etc.)? I'm new to all this.

Thanks in advance.

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...I've tried selecting a floppy disk image I made in WinUAE...

Don't know if the new WinUAE is capable of creating floppy image, but you should simply assign the downloaded "boot" floppy image file onto Drive0 rather than create a new one then use it. For harddisk image, a newly created one is blank and not bootable.

When I tried WinUAE (under Windows 98), I use ROM v2 with some open source OSes and demos. Some of them won't boot at all (due to bugs). But for those that do, all were working well. Most floppy image files have ADF extension name.

If I remember correctly, in the WinUAE configuration, all I did was select the ROM image file, OS image file and for the RAM: 512KB Slow and 1MB for all others (never set them higher since I have limited RAM at that time). I leave all other settings to their defaults. The old WinUAE (v0.8.x.x) is stable enough, IMO. Newer version should be better.

If you still can't get it to work, it's possible that WinUAE is not yet compatible with Vista.