I just got this press release in and thought it important enough to share right away for all of you Commodore Amiga and would-be/should-be Commodore Amiga fans. This is a great LEGAL emulation package based on a legendary platform for modern PCs and well worth checking out. I'll try to have some type of review up soon.

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The latest version of VirtualBox (2.1.0) sports a preliminary accelerated 3D graphics layer which

Snes9x - one of the first Snes emulators out there - is now compatible with Vista.

G A S G: Some great & not so great Amiga games I've come across whilst testing out various emulators, read more about my initial findings and take a look at some of the screenshots.

Amiga emulation - especially CD32 emulation - is well what can I say "worse than on any other platform." The Amiga was a very versatile and well-known computer in its time with a lot of multimedia capabilities that you'll find on todays computers too. The OSX has sort of been left out in the cold when it comes to an easy to use emulator. If you want a quick and solid emulation experience you might opt to install Windows on your Mac and use the Windows emulators on that platform. But today I go back to OSX based Amiga emulation and I have discovered that there might be some more Amiga emulators out there for Mac OSX than I initially thought. Let's take a look at them:

WinUAE - the Unusable Amiga Emulator - isn't as unusable as it was in the past. The latest Windows versions have made huge strides. The latest release - WinUAE 1.4.6 - features a nice drop down menu that makes it possible to quickly select the appropriate machines.

On Lemonade - thanks Oldschool!
Lemonade Initial Configuration

For those of you who would like to try out CD32/CDTV games and don't have access to a machine you might want to check out Akiko - it is a shareware emulator of German origins created by Airsoft.

Freeware utilities making it possible to run Windows on top of other operating systems are available in various flavours like Bochs, Qemu, Virtual Box, Virtual PC. The pay ware versions like VMware and Parallels also do a good job.