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Pocket Amiga Emulator

My Amiga 500 (and my CD-TV) are both still in my closet, and haven't been used in years. But long ago I used to work for a store that was exclusively Amiga, back in the early '90s in Rockville Maryland (Software Advantage if you must know) and had lots of fun with those computers back when they were the coolest thing around. They were also some of the more temperamental machines, especially when you combined them with the touchy Video Toaster. If you crossed your eyes and turned on a 2000 with a VT , chances are you just blew your VT board-- and it had to go back to NewTek. We kept spares around, luckily.

Well, now with the porting of the UAE (the Ultimate Amiga Emulator) to PocketPC by Cerial at Pocket Insanity you can play your Amiga stuff again, on your PocketPC. Download the binary for PocketUAE here. It's slow at the moment, but it does work. You'll need to track down those little buggers, you know, the kickstart disks-- Kickstart 1.3 and 3.1-- remember them? There is an 'official' licensee of the Amiga Roms now, and they are trying to stop out the free downloads on the net, but if you Google it and move out to about 10 or so, you'll easily find some for download. Along with about every Amiga game there is.