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New Amiga Forever 7 Premium Edition is Cloanto's officially licensed Amiga software emulation environment. This Premium Edition 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.. This high quality software is supplied on 3x DVDs and features numerous extra enhancements over it's predecessors. New features in Amiga Forever 7:  New playlists, with ability to add custom content folders and to change the location of builtin Amiga Files  Option to autostart PC into favorite Amiga configuration (or CBM 8-bit, if C64 Forever is installed too)  Titles can be run from Windows File Explorer without opening the main Amiga Forever player, adding to previous playerless preview and editing capabilities  Enhanced PowerPC emulation features  General and title-specific game controller personalization, including support for Xbox, X-Arcade and I-PAC controllers, virtual buttons and arbitrary keyboard layouts  Additional input features: left-handed support, configurable autofire (also with separate fire) and merging of multiple game controllers and keyboard layouts into single emulated hardware  All systems support "Type Clipboard" and automatic Unicode-aware mapping of typed and pasted text, also when the PC and emulated Amiga keyboard layouts do not match  Improved high-DPI support and multi-monitor options  New and improved media features: pervasive RDB disk support, shared drives, deployable large disk images, etc.  Massively improved authoring and playback capabilities, as part of a project that reached more than 500,000 lines of code (not counting open source modules, in which we are active contributors as well)  Update checks are now over HTTPS (TLS) and are combined with digital signature verifications for enhanced integrity, confidentiality and security  Improved security sandbox  Numerous other new features and refinements (performance, audio, WHDLoad and AROS updates, Rescan, Build Image, dynamic warning triangles, new Facebook Graph API, visualization of RP9 manifest changes, etc.) | Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10 compatible |
Amiga Forever is supplied with the Original Amiga Kickstart ROM files and operating system files (all versions from 0.7 to 3.X). You can now try out and use different Amiga Workbench versions and configurations quickly and easily on your PC. For added compatibility , you can select different Amiga models to run older Amiga software as it was originally intended by the authors. (read full summary of features) | |
Of course, the Amiga was famous for it's great games and Amiga Forever DVD contains an Amiga games pack to get your started! It's a fun and easy way of playing those Classic Amiga games. Alternatively watch the famous Scene demos (more than 100 included) and have fun reliving the excitement and nostalgia of the Amiga computer. New for the 2014 edition, a new version of Personal Paint (PPaint) is included (v7.2). The popular AmiKit and AmigaSYS are now integrated in Amiga Forever for added convenience. | |
In addition the package comes with two DVDs (5 hours) of interesting historical Amiga videos: Launch of Amiga (1985), Inside Commodore (1988), Jay Miner Speech (1989), Jay Miner Interview (1990), History of the Amiga (1992), The Deathbed Vigil (1994), Dave Haynie Interview (2001). The DVDs are Dual Layer with professional DVD menus, special features and subtitles. The DVD videos are also Region 0 so will play in any country. |
Amiga Forever Screenshot (click to expand) |
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Workbench 1.3 Screenshot |
Amiga Forever Games Pack |
DeathBed Vigil Video (1994) | Jay Miner Interview (1990) | Inside Commodore (1988) | Launch Of Amiga (1985) |
Amiga Forever is compatible with other great retro products such as Keyrah Amiga, Catweasel MK4 Plus and the popular USB remake of the Competition Pro joystick (all sold separately). |