Amiga Forever vs E-UAE

Amiga Forever is Cloanto’s suite for preserving and emulating Amiga and AmigaOS systems, with tools to run different emulation engines, operating system versions, games, and demos in one-click steps. It emulates hardware features including custom chips, SCSI, TCP/IP, RTG, AHI, virtual memory, and PowerPC expansion boards. The RP9 Title Editor creates and edits playback configurations. Input options include configurable controllers and keyboard layouts, onscreen keyboards, clipboard integration, and touchscreen gestures. Windows integration includes File Explorer thumbnails and search indexing for RP9 titles, with status updates available for Discord, Facebook, and Twitter. Windows support covers versions 11, 10, 8, 7, and Vista, in x86 and x64. macOS and GNU/Linux content requires manual file copying and is intended for a more technical audience. Editions cost $19.95 as a one-time purchase for Value, $39.95, paid once for Plus, and $59.95, paid once for Premium; local taxes may apply. There is no demonstration version, though Amiga Explorer can be tried.

E-UAE emulates Amiga computers so users can run Amiga software on other platforms. Based on UAE and WinUAE, it aims to improve performance and features across host systems, and its listed changes include an emulation core merged from WinUAE 1.3.x. Supported Amiga models include 68000-based ECS, ECS with Fat Agnus, AGA, CDTV, CD32, 68020, and 68060. It handles ADF, DMS, FDI, and IPF disk images, including gzip- and ZIP-compressed images, and supports save states and hardware acceleration. Full use requires a Kickstart ROM image, which is not included; built-in ROM emulation may work with some old games. A desktop-window mouse feature synchronizes the Amiga pointer with the host pointer. An experimental OpenGL renderer is available through the SDL display backend, and uae-configuration can query or modify settings from within emulated AmigaOS. E-UAE is free open-source software under the GPL. It builds and runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, BeOS, AmigaOS and clones, among other systems, with feature support varying by host.