How To Emulate Amiga on Raspberry Pi - Amibian Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2016
- Amibian is everything you need to transform your Raspberry Pi 3 into an Amiga. In this tutorial, I'll show you how it works, and how to set it up!
Amibian Download: gunkrist79.wixsite.com/amibian
Win32DiskImager: sourceforge.net/projects/win3...
SD Card Formatter: www.sdcard.org/downloads/form...
Kickstart ROMs: play.google.com/store/apps/de... - Наука та технологія
Brings a tear to my eye when I think about many happy hours playing on my Amiga 1200 and mega drive ( brother had a SNES ) just the best days of my life as a kid.
Nice! I wrote a few Amiga games back in the 80's and I still make Tracker music for fun, so it's awesome to see the Amiga emulation revival come to Raspberry Pi! It makes me want to fire up the old DevPak Assembler and start making the blitter do clever tricks again.
Could you please link your games? Thanks!
After playing with an Amiga 500 a couple of weeks back for the first time ever, I've just ordered a new Pi for this project :)
I said goodbye to my Amiga 500 back in about 96/97. I’m going to build one of these. I still miss the Amiga.
Awesome video thanks Dan! As you know rveryone is really jumping onto Raspberry Pi Amigas now in the community. Its a great way also to ressurect an old dead Amiga by replacing the board with a Raspberry Pi and then using a Keyrah V2 Interface to use a real Amiga keyboard with the Pi. People are now creating Pimigas (including myself!) usually out of Amiga 600 cases. Which essentially turns a dead Amiga 600 into a high end Amiga system far faster than the real thing with full internet access via wifi. Your tutorial is a great start for it!
One thing you did miss out, which I think is quite important, is the option to stop the emulator starting automatically. So you literally turn the raspberry pi on, and it'll boot to the kickstart screen or boot into Workbench. Some people have also managed to modify amibian to remove linux loading and boot screens to to give a real authentic Amiga feel.
When I've finished my Pi Amiga I'll post some pictures and a blog on the retro FPGA group on Facebook.
Cheers again from a fan!
That's a brilliant idea, especially for tinkerers with a bit of soldering knowledge, could create some awesome power Amigas. :)
Greetings from Canada. I'm so excited to have found you and your podcasts. I have been looking for a good quality Amiga show from across the pond for decades! Love the interviews (especially from the demo scene) and product insight. Keep up the good work m8!
Ahhhh just seeing those classic games put a lump in my throat!! I used to play Addams family so much in the old days but forgot what it looked like till I watched your vid. It instantly took me back like it was yesterday.. Great vide mate!
Recently discovered your videos. I share your passion for old machines, and you are a great presenter, so it's great to watch 'em!
Thanks! Glad you like the vids :)
Many thanks for the video. I had an Amiga from 1987-1993 before migrating to a 486 PC. After a long break I got back into the Amiga via Cloanto's Amiga Forever 2014 and the later upgrade to the 2016 version. So, after watching your excellent video and after a little bit of effort I now have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Amibian, KS 3.1 and Classic WB 3 with WHDLoad to get a bit of Amiga gaming nostalgia.
Always great to see Amiga content. Thank you very much!
Great video Dan. Very well explained. I've just managed to set my Pi up using this. Great stuff!
Dan, your videos are indispensable. I'm still getting over the Vampire 2 / A600 one! :) Thanks a *lot*
Your knowledge and love of the Amiga is infectious :) great video and subscribed !
Thank you for the video. We could not afford an Amiga when it came out. This gives me a chance to live out one of my childhood dreams.
This Nexus 7 demo, im so glad i did the WinUAE Amiga configs. Found a ADF version of the Andromeda Nexus demo at 6 am.
Demo did not wont to run on a A1200, but the A4000 with scanlines done the magic, awesome demo! Andromeda was always
in my fovour. After some sleep will get some more newer demos :) I fire up the emulator every now and then, the real deal A500
is still by me..... These were some nice moments i had with this outstanding machine! THX for sharing M8.
I never knew about the Amiga Forever Essentials! Thanks for the tip!
Thank you Dan...You're very Knowledgeable about pretty much all things Commodore and Amiga!...I've Gained a lot of knowledge from watching you...Keep up the good work....
+Minh A. Tran thanks Minh!
I second that sir! :)
Brilliant, just the tutorial I've been looking for. I tried to set mine up last week but made some errors. Your video has cleared that up for me. Many thanks Dan!
Super videos Dan. I followed this and was able to set up my Amiga/Pi flawlessly.
Thank you so much
Thanks for posting, I just followed this and it worked first time, just spent the last hour playing Rick Dangerous!
This is brilliant! I just set one up and currently playing Lemmings. Thanks Dan 👍
I'll be using this video to make a complete Amiga experience. thanks brother!
Thanks for the video, really informative. I just bought a raspberry pi 3 just for this reason, i had an Amiga 500 and 1200 back in the day, they don`t make games like they used to anymore and i wanted to revisit some of them, i would love to get my hands on a real machine again, hopefully one day. Cheers for the tutorial
Has got a lot better in recent years. On the 400 now it’s supported finally. I tried half a dozen games last night. Each one played without needing a single trip to the config screen.
Top Tip.if you put every multi disk game in its own folder, more often than not you don’t need to click anything to swap disks.
Had problems with installing to a new Raspberry Pi 4 so I contacted Gunnar (Amibian site) and found it will not work on Raspberry Pi v4 - here is his answer.
it only works on raspberry pi until 3b.
Then just ignore the messages about the card not being formatted after you flash, it comes because after flashing it is formatted to a file system that is not supported by your home PC.
So thank you Gunnar Kristjánsson from amibian. So close for me and yet so far, I will get there eventually. So nice video Dan and keep going with the Amiga
Keep safe & thanks all
Love this! Ordering my Pi now, thanks Dan :)
btw subbed and rang the bell. Loving your content as I get drawn more and more back in time by the pull of the retro itch that must be scratched.
I love the Pi! It's an Acorn Archimedes, old school console emulator, media player, Linux computer, industrial controller and now an Amiga all just by switching the SD card!
Very nice!
I have to buy myself a Pi.
So many exciting things to do with this little computer.
holy cow i just found out that you are the guy from the retro hour podcast! haha
big fan of that show :D
Haha, glad you like the show!
Great tutorial! Thanks and keep the Amiga vids coming!
Nice one Dan, you gave me a great reason to buy a Pi3 and setup RetroPi and Amibian, cheers
Another great video Dan. I'm lucky enough to have my mint A1200 fully set up but this is definitely something worth looking at :)
Great stuff Dan, i still have my Amiga 500 but i am going to do this on my PI3 in a bit. You have really got me re inspired to the Amiga (your xcopy vid was also great to watch) Hopefully ill be playing Speedball 2 very soon along with a bit of Cannon fodder :D
Brilliant! Thanks for this Dan, I have a Pi and will be having a crack at this.. I need to get that joystick too. I need to play me some Fire and Ice - it reminds me of Christmas so much.
Hi all.... I have just tried this on my old Raspberry Pi 1 model B+.... I can confirm that the emulation works fine on these once overclocked however due to the lack of processing power i was unable to play games (It simply crashes)... It has been fine to a degree playing some of the old Amiga Demos but it does slow down at the more demanding sequences and causes the music to slow and crackle like you've just put your hand on a old record that's playing.... All that said, its been great to see one of my favorite Amiga demos that iv'e not seen for 23 years :)
This was super helpful and easy to set up! Thanks!
mc included, holy heck that is splendid.
I bought my Amiga in December 1989 the Batman pack For £399 which I still got and still works, and the best thing about it all is I only used to pay £1 for My Amiga games :-)
Wow. that is the most extensive whd_load folder I have ever seen. Nice work.
Great video mate!
As for the kickstarts there is another way, you can grab your own roms if you have a real amiga.
There is a utility on aminet called grabkick, you just run it and dumps the rom on your hard disk.
If you don't have an HD Amiga, you can make a bootable floppy or run it via Workbench disk.
Copy the grabkick file on an empty disk and it will be enough free room to dump it in the same disk.
Dan,
I was just about to fork out a couple hundred quid for a 1200 on Ebay but no need now. I'll keep hold of my 500 and get this setup. Thanks fella.
Always a fan of and user of Amiga. Though never got into the Gaming side of it to much (yea we all played a couple of games), it is more of a daily use kind of computer for me. Now I am liking AROS very much.
WOW, I finally can get Amiga again in it's own box.. Nice
Pretty sure I will spend more time on it, then on my Core I7 for some time :-)
Thanks for the video
Just found this video, getting new to the Raspberry pi thing, but HOLY SHIT!! this will be my new project as soon as i have a RPI3 :)
A whole new world just openend up to me .
Great video... I have a Pi2, but now buying a Pi3 to sit along side my A1200 ;)
hey Dan thanks for this. Surprisingly despite you saying so there are zero instruction guides on UA-cam for setting these systems up. Ideally I'd like to see you show us how to set up a classic A500 in detail as well as how to configure a workbench for both the A500 and A1200. Also alternative configuration for the A1200 to the max and finally how to get WHDLoad running on the Workbench too. I know you're a busy guy but right now you're our only hope. Thanks Lawbag
Great Tutorial Dan, Long live the Amiga.
Great video! I'll look into this for sure.
Why do i keep getting unsubscribed from my favourite channels, i hit the bell and everything, i would never miss one of your videos.
+Retro Tech 100 I think UA-cam have had some issues recently, I've noticed lots of other channels have lost subscribers accidentally. Thanks for resubscribing!
Hey Dan, thanks for the video. Buying a PI tomorrow! :)
Exellent video. Just what I needed. I'm also a huge amiga fan :)
Great video! I'll try it with my RPi2.
Great introduction on Amibian Dan, it now means I now have to bi a pi :), and hopefully in a newer Amib revision Gunnar will have a speed increase for the floppy load time just like in WinUAE
Amazing video.....went and ordered myself an rpi3 just to do this.
Would really love to see a quickstart guide on setting up with 3.1 (or 3.9). How you get a better resolution, how to copy files onto the virtual hard disk and once again how to use whdload.
A real inspiring video.
I have just done this! Love it!!!
The very best of Commodore's Amiga (as well as C64) is the epic sound
Thanks for an awesome video Dan, that's mine running nicely, just need to research how to add WHDLoad games. :-)
your a lot younger to then me but damn Dan hearing you talk reminds me of the good old days, but the first computer I say and touched were Altair and commodore pet but wow emulating the Amiga's power on a raspberry Pi amazing times:)
Thanks dan, im gonna try that out
Really good. My Amiga 600 is stuck in the attic right now. Pi is a great all rounder single chip PC.
I love some of the well put together critisms below. makes me proud of the UA-cam community. (that's sarcasm by the way) :)
Totally doing this.
Another great video!!! Thanks
Great video, will you consider doing one on how to setup WorkBench 3.9 in WinUAE with all the HDD's etc?
and to think I was going to spend £150 on an armiga console to do the same thing! thanks will have a go at getting this onto my pi 3
Love your videos.
Awesome vid dan!!!
good vid as always
Great channel, subscribed.
Hey there. Can you please do a tutorial on how you did the A4000 emulation or point to videos? Thanks!
Dan, this video is awesome. The first one i've found that someone who loved his Amiga, but doesn't know every part of it's insides can understand! :) That said, a week later i'm still looking for these "loads" of tutorials on the next steps and i'm usually good on finding whatever corner of the interwebs i need. I'm just wanting to get this gorgeous pi-miga up and running with workbench and those whd folders but i'm struggling, could you point us in a direction? Thanks :)
Kool! Had one of those joysticks that I bought in 1986. But, it definitely was NOT USB! LOL
The Amiga Essentials price is up to £1.79 now. Still, not too bad for an Amiga, I suppose. Even as an Atari ST guy. ;) I needed the roms for WinUAE, so thanks for pointing out where to buy them.
Dan! I've been setting up my amibian. I'm going to do some digging on the problem I'm having but thought I'd ask here in case it's an obvious thing....
I've got the kick-start rom path and the floppy path definately pointing to the correct files. I've set the amibian settings as you have them in your vid... But when I hit start I just get a blank screen. No game I try will load. I've also tried all the kickstart roms.
Ever experienced that issue?
I'll go hunting on the forums.... I'm so close but feel so far from getting that amiga experience on my pi!
Wow, WHDLoad is free now? Thanks for this bit of information. Didn't know that.
Nice tutorial Dan anychance of 2nd episode showing that awesome os 3.9 whdload etc or have you any pointers as to instructions.
Anyway nice one fella keep up the good retro work
Great video :) Thank you
Oh, great video!! I would love to see a tutorial on how to set up the a4000, or a link to a tutorial! :) Is it possible to emulate an a1200 with a 060 acc?
Cool video!
Thank you Dan!!!!
This would be cool on that new pie that’s built into a keyboard!
interesting tutorial! Could you point out where are the tutorials to run the full WB from HDF file?
Also did you try Happiga? That distro seems beefier
Great! Thank you.
Excellent tutorial Dan,
Can you link us to the best youtube tutorial for setting up WHDLoad (hopefully on the Raspberry Pi) ?
yes please
NEED. THAT. CASE. NOW! DAN! PLEASE! Ask the guy to put them on some public 3D printing site? I want that case and I am sure others do too!
thank you for this tip love amiga 500 want to make a arcade of it :)
Thanks dood.
Thanks Dan, can you suggest where I should go for setting up whdload. not done it yet as I still use my proper amiga with a usb drive fitted
The option to expand the file system has been moved into one of the sub menus... Exploring now...
Can get a nice SDcard to USB reader in Poundland.
I'm not sure what the current state of it is as it's been a **long** time since I went anywhere near the source, but Fast Copper used a much more streamlined Copper emulation core at the expense of compatibility: collision detection and list timings suffered, potentially leading to anything from broken gameplay to the emulated machine crashing, but in the early days many PCs struggled to run the emulation at a decent speed so it was a useful tradeoff; moderns PCs generally have more than enough grunt to do it "properly" so on the whole there's no need to use the Fast mode, but I've not tried it on the Pi so possibly it's still a "leave it on Fast if it works" thing.
As for the Blitter, setting it to "immediate" is less accurate but *much* quicker -- I'm a little rusty on the technical details, but IIRC it performs the blit operation "outside" of the emulation so anything that relies on bus contention for timing or makes assumptions based on when a blit operation will start and end will run into problems. If you're running Workbench (particularly if you've increased colour depth) or OS-friendly applications it's completely safe, but for games there's the same caveat as the Copper: you'll get better speed, but it may not work.
(I can't tell if the option is gone or whether it's just not exposed in the UI, but there used to be a "use cycle-exact CPU and blitter timings" choice which let you have the fast blitting but solved the timing issues; it may be available by manually editing config files, in which case it's another thing to consider when trying to balance performance and stability.)
Merry Christmas Dan!
Great video and a fan of The Retro Hour!
But all I want for Christmas is wb3.9 on my pi! Can you help or point me in the right direction?
Thak you so much!!!!!!!
To get the setup like yours on whd can you just copy your sd card to another one like a clone ?
Great tutorial Dan, I still have my Amiga 2000 which hasn't been used for over 20 years due to my monitor dying. Might have to try this. Do you have tutorials howto copy original disks? I assume it needs to be done on an original Amiga. Any way to get around this legally as mentioned I don't have a monitor and don't want to get extra hardware to hook up a modern monitor.
Dan thank you for this tutorial. I have a few questions for you, Im not that interested in games though. 1) where can i find a pre-made image of the one with the whole desktop etc with the whd load. 2) I have the amiga forever software.. whats the difference in using that on the PC instead of going to the raspberry pi? I do have 2 raspberry pies but it seems more difficult than just doing it on the pc. 3) if I do run the desktop image on the raspberry with workbench 3.9 will it work like a amiga 4000? Sorry I am more or less novice to the amiga even though I bought a used amiga 1200 in good shape etc... I never had the time to fiddle with it! thanks !
Hello Dan
I've been busy installing classic amiga OS 3.9 on Amibian but the only thing i can't get working is the resolution... I'm stuck at 640x256, and that looks very crappy on a fullHD tv... can you give me some pointers on that?
Thanks,
Roelof
58 dislikes come from the people who had their childhood at the wrong time.
Hi Dan. I have set up my Pi 3 using the Amibian distro like yourself, however I am convinced the audio is slightly late and no matter what I try I cannot get the sound in perfect sync. This is mostly obvious in one of my favorite games, Turrican. When firing there is a clear delay before the sound is heard. I fired it up on my real Amiga 500 machine to make sure that it wasn't just my OCD working overtime but sadly it isn't and the delay really spoils it for me lol.
Did you notice anything like that?
Excellent thanks for the video Dan. Is there a size limit of HDF file that can be used with Amibian I tried my 3.9GB HDF file that works perfect with Winuae but it wouldnt work with Amibian I just receive an error message.