Amiga Forever Cross-Platform Support

Emulation of "Classic" Amiga hardware (e.g. implementations of the UAE and Fellow Amiga emulators) is available for more than 10 different operating systems. All of these are compatible with the ROM and operating system files and with most of the preinstalled software included in Amiga Forever since 1997. Amiga Forever is enjoyed and used with great satisfaction by users of systems such as Mac OS and GNU/Linux, which however require a minimum of technical skills, e.g. to manually install the emulation-related files.

Consistently with the spirit of diversity of the Amiga community, we would love to be able to not only deliver some tools and files for the technically skilled, but also to more broadly support all environments. Unfortunately we cannot be experts in all of these platforms, nor can we develop custom solutions such as Amiga Explorer or Software Director tailored for each one of these. Given limited resources and varying degrees of demand, it is therefore currently not possible to make available to all platforms the level of detail and support which we would love to be able to offer. Fortunately, it also appears that the need for support is in inverse proportion with the popularity of a platform, so that in practice the more technical audience of certain non-Windows systems appears to be very well able to not only use Amiga Forever on their often fairly exotic systems without much help, but even to adapt and perhaps recompile the emulation software itself, if desired.

Based on resources and demand, Amiga Forever is primarily developed, tested and supported on Windows systems. While the documents on this site should make it clear what can and what cannot be done with the various Amiga Forever components on each non-Windows platform, we cannot guarantee technical support for these, although we will try to assist you in any way we can.

For additional information more specific to different operating systems, please refer to:

• Amiga Forever on Windows
• Amiga Forever on Mac OS
• Amiga Forever on GNU/Linux

Cross-Platform Components

The data track of the Amiga Forever CD contains the following file systems: Joliet (Windows), ISO 9660-2 (most platforms) with Amiga extensions, and Rock Ridge (Unix, Amiga) with Amiga extensions. This should make it very accessible to a broad variety of systems.

The main Amiga Forever documentation is in HTML format, and can be read with any web browser.

The ROM and operating system files, as well as the preinstalled Amiga System and Work partitions in Amiga Forever work with all implementations of the UAE and Fellow Amiga emulators. Once you have these Amiga files you only need to install the emulation executables for your specific platform.

By default, the Online Edition of Amiga Forever requires a Windows system for installation, after which the ROM and operating system files can be used on other platforms as well.

The Amiga Forever Plus Edition ISO image is supported by CD burning software on different platforms, and is stored in a cross-platform ZIP archive for use on any system.

The Premium Edition of Amiga Forever includes the Plus Edition CD and two industry-standard dual-layer video DVDs. The DVDs have no encryption and no region-specific encoding, so as to be compatible with widest set of playback software and hardware.