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The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is

by flurdy 3y ago

p_l 3y ago
How is "WinUAE Amiga Emulator" not a succinct explanation of what WinUAE is? Mind you, this is something targeting rather specific group (i.e. people who want to emulate Amiga and related machines)
EspadaV9 3y ago
At the very top of the page, in the header, it tells you what it is, an Amiga emulator. > WinUAE Amiga emulator
- wigster 3y ago
  perhaps with the passing of time and the state of AI, people might mistake it for an actual girl friend emulator! ;-)
  - HeckFeck 3y ago
    I was always torn between Denise, Paula and Agnus.
    - kstrauser 3y ago
      As Agnus got older, she got thicc.
      - stoobs 3y ago
        Agnus got fat (then fatter and super-fat), Denise turned super, Paula remained true to herself :D
        LocalH 3y ago
        How many people know about Daphne and Portia?
        bogantech 3y ago
        Or Lorraine
        amigasource-com 3y ago
        Shameless plug... I do! Big Old List of EVERY Custom Amiga Chip and Chipset Name I Could Find https://amigasource.com/bol.php https://amigasource.com/bol.php Please visit AmigaSource.com!!! Since 2001... Your BEST source for Amiga information. Again... ** Always Under Construction ** (Over 3000+ Amiga links for your viewing pleasure! -- Please help spread the word!)
        snvzz 3y ago
        Gave a hopeful click, was disappointed. I expected to see all chip revisions (the multiple agnus, denise, gary, buster...), with any known differences they have. Instead, it's just a list of custom chips, not covering their versions.
        amigasource-com 3y ago
        Sorry to hear you're disappointed and it didn't meet your HIGH level of expectations. As I stated this was MY attempt to make the MOST COMPLETE list available of EVERY KNOWN custom chip by NAME for the Amiga and few more added in for good measure! Again BY NAME!! Not perfect but pretty damn complete. It wasn't meant to be the most comprehensive list with every version, date of manufacture, plant of origin, pin outs, know bugs, voltage & timing charts, die shots, etc... for each of them. Maybe someday but not today... Hopefully I made it easy enough for anyone to point out errors or to add a bit of information. Just click the 'COMMENT' link. Now I'll ask YOU... Do you happen to know of a site that has a MORE COMPLETE listing? If so PLEASE do share or maybe you have a list of your own? I would LOVE to compare. Just trying to do my SMALL part for the community as I have been doing for the past 22 years... oh and to you point how about this page for starters. Sadly it only exists on archive.org. (For reference see SOURCES #) The Big Old Chip List V1.8 ©1989-2002 (ANGUS) https://web.archive.org/web/20040705035307/http://www.vgr.com/tbocl/AGNUS.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040705035307/http://www.vgr.co... or their main page https://web.archive.org/web/20040427055954/http://www.vgr.com/tbocl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20040427055954/http://www.vgr.co...
gorfot 3y ago
For what it's worth I agree with flurdy. It's obvious that it targets Amiga emulation on windows, but what can I expect, whats the user experience? For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla. I'm still going to give it a shot though!
- prmoustache 3y ago
  > For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla. Except WinUAE has been there for so long it is already part of the Amiga scene folklore. It is a windows msi installer, there is not guide needed appart from the usual next --> next --> install and I have personally never seen a screenshot of the gui as a useful resource. So many projects show really nice looking screenshots and then your try the software itself and you find out it is buggy/crashy/misssing features.
- amiga386 3y ago
  FWIW, the WinUAE page has always been that minimalist. UAE was the Unix Amiga Emulator and the original source is now dead, but was forked years ago and the two main versions are WinUAE (for Windows) and FS-UAE (for Linux, Windows and macOS). FS-UAE has a website more like the one you're expecting: https://fs-uae.net/ https://fs-uae.net/ ...but the link here is to announce that WinUAE just got a new release, not to debate the relative merits of two competing forks of a project and their websites! If it helps anyone, here's a simple how-to for setting up WinUAE: https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emulator/ https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emul...

The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is

by flurdy 3y ago

The front page does not do a good job of explaining what WinUAE is, or rather does not say at all what it is

p_l 3y ago

How is "WinUAE Amiga Emulator" not a succinct explanation of what WinUAE is? Mind you, this is something targeting rather specific group (i.e. people who want to emulate Amiga and related machines)

EspadaV9 3y ago

At the very top of the page, in the header, it tells you what it is, an Amiga emulator. > WinUAE Amiga emulator

wigster 3y ago
perhaps with the passing of time and the state of AI, people might mistake it for an actual girl friend emulator! ;-)
- HeckFeck 3y ago
  I was always torn between Denise, Paula and Agnus.
  - kstrauser 3y ago
    As Agnus got older, she got thicc.
    - stoobs 3y ago
      Agnus got fat (then fatter and super-fat), Denise turned super, Paula remained true to herself :D
      - LocalH 3y ago
        How many people know about Daphne and Portia?
        bogantech 3y ago
        Or Lorraine
        amigasource-com 3y ago
        Shameless plug... I do! Big Old List of EVERY Custom Amiga Chip and Chipset Name I Could Find https://amigasource.com/bol.php https://amigasource.com/bol.php Please visit AmigaSource.com!!! Since 2001... Your BEST source for Amiga information. Again... ** Always Under Construction ** (Over 3000+ Amiga links for your viewing pleasure! -- Please help spread the word!)
        snvzz 3y ago
        Gave a hopeful click, was disappointed. I expected to see all chip revisions (the multiple agnus, denise, gary, buster...), with any known differences they have. Instead, it's just a list of custom chips, not covering their versions.
        amigasource-com 3y ago
        Sorry to hear you're disappointed and it didn't meet your HIGH level of expectations. As I stated this was MY attempt to make the MOST COMPLETE list available of EVERY KNOWN custom chip by NAME for the Amiga and few more added in for good measure! Again BY NAME!! Not perfect but pretty damn complete. It wasn't meant to be the most comprehensive list with every version, date of manufacture, plant of origin, pin outs, know bugs, voltage & timing charts, die shots, etc... for each of them. Maybe someday but not today... Hopefully I made it easy enough for anyone to point out errors or to add a bit of information. Just click the 'COMMENT' link. Now I'll ask YOU... Do you happen to know of a site that has a MORE COMPLETE listing? If so PLEASE do share or maybe you have a list of your own? I would LOVE to compare. Just trying to do my SMALL part for the community as I have been doing for the past 22 years... oh and to you point how about this page for starters. Sadly it only exists on archive.org. (For reference see SOURCES #) The Big Old Chip List V1.8 ©1989-2002 (ANGUS) https://web.archive.org/web/20040705035307/http://www.vgr.com/tbocl/AGNUS.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040705035307/http://www.vgr.co... or their main page https://web.archive.org/web/20040427055954/http://www.vgr.com/tbocl/ https://web.archive.org/web/20040427055954/http://www.vgr.co...

gorfot 3y ago

For what it's worth I agree with flurdy. It's obvious that it targets Amiga emulation on windows, but what can I expect, whats the user experience? For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla. I'm still going to give it a shot though!

prmoustache 3y ago
> For a project like this you expect: 1 or 2 sentences explaining the project. A screenshot of the GUI. Mention if OS / software is not included. Link to an installation guide. perhaps who is behind the project, or if its open source. etc. A timeline blabla. Except WinUAE has been there for so long it is already part of the Amiga scene folklore. It is a windows msi installer, there is not guide needed appart from the usual next --> next --> install and I have personally never seen a screenshot of the gui as a useful resource. So many projects show really nice looking screenshots and then your try the software itself and you find out it is buggy/crashy/misssing features.
amiga386 3y ago
FWIW, the WinUAE page has always been that minimalist. UAE was the Unix Amiga Emulator and the original source is now dead, but was forked years ago and the two main versions are WinUAE (for Windows) and FS-UAE (for Linux, Windows and macOS). FS-UAE has a website more like the one you're expecting: https://fs-uae.net/ https://fs-uae.net/ ...but the link here is to announce that WinUAE just got a new release, not to debate the relative merits of two competing forks of a project and their websites! If it helps anyone, here's a simple how-to for setting up WinUAE: https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emulator/ https://www.howtoretro.com/emulation/winuae-setup-amiga-emul...