I’ve recently become enamored with the idea of experimenting with some old Amiga hardware and software. I was too young to enjoy this platform in 1980s and 1990s, but I believe the demo scene created some of the most resourceful programmers the world has seen. Before spending a hundred or so dollars on actual hardware I thought I’d give emulation a try. In other words, I was determined to run virtualized Amiga hardware on my MacBook Pro under OS X 10.7.
We now live in a world where memory and CPU constraints are no longer the obstacles they once were, and as a result, a cultural shift has occurred in the development community. A once ubiquitous approach of careful, calculated software craftsmanship is no longer necessary to build things. In this day and age, developers spend a lot of time fastening together APIs with glue and duct tape. Convenient? Sure, but does it require creativity? In my opinion, not as much as it used to when the limiting realities of hardware constraints were treated as hurdles to overcome via optimally written software.
In order to get started with Amiga emulation on newer versions of OS X, a binary compiled for the Intel processor is required. Traditionally the Amiga emulator (Unix Amiga Emulator) have been compiled to run on non-Intel Mac (PowerPC based) hardware. These versions will not run on newer versions of Mac OS . I spent five hours on a Sunday night looking for it all over the web, which probably wasn’t the best use of my time. Unfortunately, the most commonly referenced link on forums around the web was no longer hosting the binary, created by a person who identifies themselves as nexusle, for download. Because of this less than optimal experience, I’ve decided to host this binary on my own website for anyone who is interested in downloading it. When E-UAE loads it will immediately prompt for a configuration file, which we can generate with Hi-Toro.
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15 comments: On Amiga Emulation – An E-UAE Binary for OS X 10.7
Bravo man… you where a time saver for me 🙂 Excellent work!
Man, you´re awesome! I was searching for a good E-UAE binary to making work my emulator and then your page appeared!
Thx for your time to search this
Just pulled the files and am about to set about putting your hard work onto my new MacBook Pro…
MacBook Pro, CIRCA late August 2012, OSX 10.7.5…
My AMIGA credentials:-
http://aminet.net/search?readme=wisecracker
Just uploaded this for the MacBook Pro…
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578282-for-macbook_pro-heads-only-simple-lf-audio-oscillo/?in=lang-python
Enjoy…
Bazza, G0LCU…
Wow, this is really neat. Thanks!
Hi Michael,
thanks for sharing the files, which I found after a few hours of frustration, trying to find a proper version for my OSX 10.8.2.
Cheers,
Stebbele
You’re quite welcome. The Amiga was and is a wonderful and fun platform. I hope you have fun emulating!
Excellent Stuff! I just checked my EUAE app and reaqlised it was PowerPC.
Got a good speed boost from this. Thanks!
I’m glad to see there are folks out there as interested in this as I am, and I’m glad to have helped!
This is a great find, now I can leave the XP machine at work…
So did you end up buying any original hardware?
As a matter of fact I did. I’m now the proud owner of an Amiga A1200 with an Indivision AGA MK2 A1200 video interface so I can easily connect it my DVI display. It’s very cool! Thanks for asking and thanks for commenting. 🙂
Hi!
Thanks for hosting the file and congrats for your purchase!
I have an A500 and an A1200 with 68040 mounted in a tower + Cybervision 64, unfortunately grilled zorro II ports. These sweeties sleep in my parents’ garage until, one day, I get my hands back on them. Since then, emulation to do some assembly is just great.
Emulation truly is convenient for us folks who own real hardware that may be in storage. I’m glad to have helped!
Hi Michael 🙂
I was able to play Hired Guns yesterday and had a lot of fun.
Thank you very much 🙂
Thanks Michael – works well on Snow Leopard 🙂
Got EUAE up and running to the AmigaDOS window- Now, how to load programs into/on the floppy drives? I never thought I’d get even this far, though. lol I think I still got my amiga dos book around somewhere…lol