The Amiga computer, launched by Commodore in 1985, combined superior multimedia technology with ease of use, inspiring millions of the most creative and enthusiastic computer users ever.
Amiga Forever is the award-winning Amiga preservation, emulation and support package brought to you by Cloanto.
The Premium Edition of Amiga Forever blends high-quality software and original content with the ultimate set of videos to chronicle and let you experience firsthand the history, culture, challenges and passion behind the Amiga. It contains all Amiga Forever and Amiga Explorer products including all content for all platforms (i.e. for both Windows and other systems), and all videos. The CD is Live booting through KX Light. Almost 20GB of software.
Features
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Emulation of Amiga hardware (allows you to run Amiga software on your PC)
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Original Amiga ROM and OS files (all versions from 1.0 to 3.X)
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Additional emulation and drivers (RTG, SCSI, TCP/IP, AHI, CDTV, CD³², etc.)
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Preconfigured WinUAE and WinFellow emulation engines with auto-updates
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Preinstalled games, demos and applications (web browser, paint, etc.)
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Support for thousands of downloadable Amiga games, demos and applications
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Amiga Explorer and Amiga Files data sharing framework
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Optionally-bootable CD, based on KX Light (boots your PC into Workbench)
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More than five hours of "must-see" Amiga videos (two dual-layer DVDs)
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Special features and gallery of items of historical interest
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Much, much more...
Amiga Forever 2008 is the most significant upgrade ever released in the Amiga Forever series. The result of two years of work, Amiga Forever 2008 sets new standards in usability while more than tripling the featured content. The first impression when seeing the new skinned player is stunning. Amiga Forever 2008 was rewritten from scratch to redefine itself and the perception of emulation and retrogaming in general. The Amiga Forever Premium Edition also includes the new "Amiga Forever Game Pack I", which is a set of more than 100 PEGI-rated Amiga games.
New features in Amiga Forever 2008 includes:
- Revolutionary new and intuitive player interface, for easy selection and playback of games and other content
- The new Amiga Forever player further makes it possible to double-click or drag-and-drop downloaded disk images (e.g. ADF, ADZ, IPF, etc.) to play them
- The player has built-in support for dual screens and multiple emulation sessions
- Content more than tripled (disk images are now compressed, and also used directly by installer)
- New "Amiga Forever Game Pack I" (more than 100 games)
- More than 100 beautiful demoscene productions
- New Gallery items: original Tripos article, "top secret" Amiga-Atari documents, and much more
- New system HDFs, ADFs and ROMs
- Preinstalled WHDLoad support
- New KX Light (boots PC into Amiga), based on Linux Kernel 2.6.24.4
- Full support for Windows Vista x86 and x64
The Amiga Forever 2008 Premium Edition package contains:
- CD - Amiga Forever Plus Edition CD
- All ROM and Workbench disks released between version 1.0 and 3.1, including 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, 2.05, 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1.
- Includes a set of version 44 ("Amiga OS 3.5") files plus version 45 (or higher) files which may be either identical with, or newer than, certain (but not all) files which were also included in the product known as "Amiga OS 3.9".
- Amiga 1000 boot ROM
- CDTV extended ROM (CDTV uses normal 1.3 boot ROM)
- CD³² ROM and extended ROM
- Amiga Forever Boot Floppy Disk
- Ability to boot on a PC (El Torito specification)
- DVD 1 - Amiga Forever video DVD 1
- Launch of Amiga (1985, 17')
- Inside Commodore (1988, 40')
- Jay Miner Speech (1989, 49')
- Jay Miner Interview (1990, 9')
- History of the Amiga (1992, 43')
- DVD 2 - Amiga Forever video DVD 2
- The Deathbed Vigil (1994, 118')
- Dave Haynie Interview (2001, 55')
- Amiga Faces Picture Gallery (1988-2005, 50')
Software Content, CD
Preinstalled and ready-to-run Amiga OS 1.3 and 3.X environments.
- Preinstalled Amiga OS 1.3 environment (for compatibility with older games and other software) and Amiga OS 3.X environment (for productivity, internet access, etc.), running on top of a powerful JIT-enabled Amiga hardware emulation which also supports Amiga custom chips, RTG, SCSI, TCP/IP, AHI, up to 512 MB of Zorro III RAM, virtual memory, MIDI, native x86 code, etc. More...
- Preinstalled games, and support for downloaded games
- Preinstalled demos, including more than 10 original "First Demos" by Amiga, and support for downloaded demos
- A multitude of carefully-preinstalled quality Amiga applications, which include the AWeb browser (great for cross-browser testing), TCP/IP support tools, Personal Paint 7.1c (paint, animation and image processing software, includes GIF/LZW license), special version of CacheCDFS CD file system, AmigaAMP media player, DirDiff (file synchronization and replication software), AmiToRTF (to convert texts from Amiga to Windows formats), MailBX (to convert Amiga mail archives to Microsoft Mail, Outlook Express and Exchange Server), drag-and-drop LhA, print spooler, Directory Opus 5.5 (courtesy of GPSoftware), TurboText (exclusive latest version with bug fixes), MUI (shareware version), KingCON, FreeWheel, PowerSnap, ToolManager, ReqTools, etc.
- Compatibility with Amiga OS "3.5"+ icons, NewIcons and MagicWB icons
- New and fully-licensed Picasso96 RTG software (not a shareware version), maps Amiga graphics requests directly to fast x86 calls and powerful low-level DirectX functions (Windows version of emulation)
- Amiga Narrator and Translator speech synthesis components (made available for distribution with the Amiga OS for the first time since 1991, when Commodore-Amiga's licenses expired)
- Latest versions of WinUAE and WinFellow tested and supported by Cloanto (non-Windows versions included and/or available too)
- Launcher window with one-click controls
- Amiga Files software and folder to support future Windows systems
- Software Director for easy and privacy-conscious emulation news and updates
- Gallery of multimedia items of historical interest
- KX Light boot environment, to optionally boot from CD (no Windows or other host OS required)
- Amiga Explorer software
- Additional Plus Edition Content
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