Requirements:

WinUAE requires some Amiga software in order to function:

• A copy of your Kickstart ROM (sometimes referred as a ROM-image, ROM-file, KickFile, or KickROM).

  If you own an Amiga, you can extract a ROM-image using the included 'transrom' utility, which must be run on your Amiga.

  If you no longer own an Amiga, you can obtain a legal copy of a Kickstart ROM from Cloanto's Amiga Forever software package.

• A copy of your Amiga OS disks (sometimes referrred to as Workbench).

  If you own an Amiga, you can transfer your Workbench diskettes to the .adf file-format used by UAE by running the included 'transdisk' utility.  Again, this must be run on your Amiga.

  If you no longer own an Amiga, you can obtain a legal copy of various Amiga OS releases from Cloanto's Amiga Forever software package.

NOTE: Amiga Forever includes an excellent utility called Amiga Explorer, which allows you to connect a real Amiga and your Windows PC together, for easy transfer of files from your Amiga to your PC.

NOTE: The Amiga software (ROMs and Workbench) is copyright material, and is not free.  I will not provide Kickstart ROM-images, or Amiga OS (Workbench) disks.

On the Windows side, WinUAE is a fairly hungry application and requires alot of compute-power to accurately emulate the Amiga.  I recommend the following system specifications before running WinUAE:

• Pentium 233MMX or higher processor
• 64-Megs of RAM
• PCI sound-card
• PCI or AGP graphics-card
• Win98 with DirectX 6.0 (or higher), or WinNT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 (or higher)
• Joystick

My personal development system consists of the following:

• Intel Celeron 300A processor overclocked to a 450MHz - basically a PentiumII-450
• WinNT 4.0, Service Pack 3
• Ensoniq AudioPCI
• nVidia Riva 128 AGP
• 128-Megs of PC-100 SDRAM
• 28x CD-ROM reader (ATAPI)
• 2x/8x CD-R drive (SCSI)
• Microsoft Natural keyboard and Intellimouse
• ViewSonic Optiquest V95 19" monitor, at 1600x1200 16-bit resolution

This system usually obtains Amiga 3000 (68030 at 25MHz) speeds, and gives Picasso96 RTG speeds of at least a PicassoII card.