Introduction

To get you started at emulating Amigas you need to know the configuration of the most popular or frequently used Amigas to get your games or software working.
All the other settings can be set as desired. If using Workbench, it is suggested using as much Fast RAM or Z3: 8-32MB would cover most software applications.
Adding some Fast RAM can help a lot.
For PowerPC Emulation you only use Accelerator RAM, plus a Picasso IV ROM, Cyberstorm or Blizzard PPC ROMs and the qemu-uae.dll plugin.

Real Amiga Examples

To get you started at emulating Amigas you need to know the configuration of the most popular or frequently used Amigas to get your software working:

 

A500

A500+

A600

A3000

A1200

CD32

A4000

A4000/PPC

Processor

68000

68000

68000

68030

68EC020

68EC020

68030/040

PPC 604e

Chip RAM

512kB, 1MB

1MB

1MB

1MB

2MB

2MB

2MB

256K

Fast RAM

0 - 8MB

0 - 8MB

0 - 8MB

0 - 8MB

0 - 8MB

0MB

0 - 8MB

0 MB

Slow RAM

0 - 1MB

0 - 1MB

n/a

n/a

n/a

0MB

n/a

0 MB

Z3-Fast

n/a

n/a

n/a

0 - 256MB

0 - 256MB

0MB

0 - 256MB

0 MB

Accelerator

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

128 MB

RTG RAM

n/a

n/a

n/a

0 - 32MB

0 - 32MB

0MB

0 - 32MB

4

ROM File

1.2, 1.3, 2, 3.1

2.0, 3.1

2.0, 3.1

2.0, 3.1

3.0, 3.1

3.1 Extended

3.0, 3.1

3.1

Hard Drive

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Chip Set

OCS

ECS

ECS

ECS

AGA

AGA

AGA

AGA/Picasso IV

Floppies

880kB

880kB

880kB

880kB

880kB

None

880kB/1600kB

880kb/1600Kb

HD Controller

A590

A590

A600 IDE

A3000 SCSI

A1200 IDE

n/a

A4000 IDE

CyberStorm PPC

Network card

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

A2065

RTG Graphics

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Picasso IV

n/a

Picasso IV

Picasso IV

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