Amiga Forever by Cloanto
   
   
 

Welcome to Amiga Forever 6.0

    

Thank you for choosing Amiga Forever, the official suite of Classic Amiga emulation, OS, connectivity and support solutions since 1997.

The Amiga Forever team at Cloanto has been actively developing Amiga software since 1986, and worked on this project with great passion and attention to detail. The Amiga Forever developers are, first of all, Amiga Forever users themselves, and enjoy helping other Amiga enthusiasts and sharing bits and bytes of Amiga culture and history.

Amiga Forever would not have been possible without the help of numerous contributors.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Essential Links

If you are reading this from within the emulation environment be sure to check out this page for important information and tips (e.g. shortcuts for exiting the emulation, etc.):

If you just purchased Amiga Forever and need to install or use the software and multimedia content for the first time:

The Amiga Forever web site (www.amigaforever.com) contains up-to-date FAQ and troubleshooting sections which are designed to cover all questions and issues that the Amiga Forever team becomes aware of:

Additional popular links include:

Please always keep in mind that the Amiga Forever web site includes several hundred pages of documents, and is substantially larger, more refined and more up-to-date than this documentation.

Overview

This documentation can be accessed both from the host environment (e.g. from the Amiga Forever launcher, via the Start menu, in Windows) and from inside the preinstalled Amiga OS 3.X environment ("gray Workbench screen"). Just click AWeb, which is the first icon in the dock at the bottom of the screen.

The Amiga OS 1.3 environment ("blue Workbench screen") does not have a web browser. Therefore, ReadMe.txt files have been placed at the root of the 1.3 Workbench and First Demos floppy disk images. Please refer to these files for context-specific instructions.

Please use the navigation bar at the left of these documentation pages to access the various sections. The "Amiga Forever" logo graphics at the top of the bar can always be used to visit the Amiga Forever home page at www.amigaforever.com.

On Windows, the Amiga Forever launcher can be invoked from the Start menu (under Programs/Cloanto/Amiga Forever, or equivalent entry in other languages). We recommend the use of the Amiga Forever launcher to access both the documentation, the Amiga environments and additional premium content.

Amiga Forever Versions

Amiga Forever is available in two main versions: an easy to download "Online Edition", and a "Premium Edition" on CD, which contains additional multimedia items, several hours of video footage, and Amiga ROM and OS files of historical interest (e.g. Amiga OS 1.0).

The Online Edition is available in a Windows version, which is easier to install on Windows, and in a cross-platform ZIP archive. Other than for the installation procedures these two packages have identical content (the files of the Windows version can be used on GNU/Linux, and the cross-platform version includes separate installers for Windows-only components such as Amiga Explorer and Software Manager).

The CD Edition of Amiga Forever includes additional content, such as a gallery of multimedia items, videos, a selection of preinstalled games, and a broader set of Amiga ROM and OS files of historical interest.

The Online Edition can always be extended with the optional Online Plus Pack, which contains the additional Amiga ROM and OS files (but not the Gallery and Videos files, except for an MP3 version of the Jay Miner interview) which are included in the CD Edition.

Custom "Special Edition" ("SE") versions of Amiga Forever also exist. These are limited in functionality, and only include version 1.3 Amiga ROM and OS files.

This documentation is shared between all versions and components of Amiga Forever.