FS-UAE, like any Amiga emulator, requires a Kickstart ROM file in order to boot-up into a working Amiga system. It does come with an emulated AROS ROM, but I don't know whether this will work with games.
Luckily for me, I have a few Amigas available to nab the ROM file from - my A1200 provided the Kickstart 3.1 (v40.68) file I'm using. Various flavours are available with the Amiga Forever pack from Cloanto - not all games will work with the later Kickstarts, so you may need Kickstart 1.3 for particularly old games.
The readme file which comes with the MacOS distribution doesn't say much about where it should or shouldn't reside, so I've installed the FS-UAE folder with the /Applications/ folder on the main disk. Running the FS-UAE.app file straight away opens a window telling me that there isn't a valid configuration file. Guess what I'll be working on next!
It does, however, boot to an AROS screen saying "No valid media". To close the window, you need to F12 - in order to do this in MacOS X, you'll need to set the function keys as standard function keys.
Hi, FS-UAE author here! Great blog :)
ReplyDeleteRegarding the F12 key -strictly speaking, the keyboard shortcut to open the menu is "just F12" on all platforms. But on OS X, the F12 key is usually used by the dashboard function. If so, you need to combine with something else (Ctrl or Fn) to avoid Mac OS X intercepting the key press.
So I did what you did, used F1, F2, etc as standard function keys -but also disabled the dashboard shortcut (since I don't use that function anyway).
In the recent development versions, F12 are also used as a modifier key (for instance F12+s to save a screenshot), so this makes it more useful to be able to use F12 alone.
(The dashboard issue is not a problem in fullscreen mode).
Ah, I see! Will update the blog to reflect this! By the way, the F12-s function works brilliantly - I'm running version 1.3.23.
DeleteThanks for popping by! :)