I prefer a controller with a dongle or wire, as it minimizes lag and works every time. 8bitdo works well on RetroPie but can be unreliable through Bluetooth on the Amiga distros Amibian and DietPi. I use my 8bitdo controller on my tablet and it works with no fuss. One advantage of emulating the Amiga on Android is controller support. The Amiga Forever Essentials app works on Android with the UAE4Droid and Uae4arm emulators (I prefer Uae4arm). Just download an emulator and you are ready to start configuring your system. There are a number of emulators for Android, and if you buy the Amiga Forever Essentials app, it will install the commercial kickstart ROMs to a shared folder that the emulators can access.

Setting up the emulator on my Samsung Tab 10, Nexus 7, and Chromebook was straightforward. I prefer Linux-based emulators, so I am using the Amiga Forever Essentials Android app for now. I also have the Linux app installed, ready for when audio and GPU acceleration for Linux apps become available. On Crostini (Linux on Chromebook) or Ubuntu, you can install it with the command: sudo apt-get install fs-uae fs-uae-arcade fs-uae-launcherĪ caveat on Chromebooks and Crostini: Chromebooks don't yet support audio on Linux apps, but it is a feature that's coming in ChromeOS 74. I prefer FS-UAE, which is available on a number of platforms. I also use UAE on my Chromebook, which supports Android apps, to emulate my Amiga. Most of the emulators for Android, Linux, Chrome, MacOS, and Windows are ports or forks from this project or grew from the emulation community. The acronym initially stood for Unusable Amiga Emulator, but now it's generally called Universal Amiga Emulator, Ultimate Amiga Emulator, or Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator. UAE is an open source emulator released in 1995. Here are the devices I got Amiga emulation to run on: I'll provide links to all the software and go over some of the things I learned on my retro weekend, as well as some guides to take it to the next step. It is by no means a complete guide to all things you can do with emulation for the Amiga, but it should be a good start to get you going. Recently, I thought, 'I wonder if I can put an Amiga emulator on that?' This article is the result of a weekend spent doing just that. Welcome to the communityĪs a Linux fan, I often find myself looking at some obscure bit of hardware and thinking, 'I wonder if I can use it with Linux?' or more often, 'I wonder if I can put Linux on that?' I blame my youth of playing adventure games and solving puzzles for that mentality.

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