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| Amiga Forever | |
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 Amiga Forever 2008 onWindows Vista. | |
| Developer | Cloanto IT srl |
| Initial release | November 14, 1997; 28 years ago (1997-11-14) |
| Stable release | July 3, 2025; 7 months ago (2025-07-03) - 11 |
| Operating system | Windows,macOS,Linux |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Amiga Forever is anAmiga preservation,emulation and support package published by Cloanto,[1][2] allowing Amiga software to run on non-Amiga hardware legally without complex configuration.
TheWindows[3] version of Amiga Forever includes a "player" software developed by Cloanto which usesplugins such asWinUAE as emulation engines, while relying on its own user interface for configuration and authoring. In addition to supporting commondisk image formats, Amiga Forever can also play back .Author files in Cloanto's proprietary RP9 format, which arecompressed files, embed all media images includingXML-based configuration and description data, and ancillary content like documentation, screenshots, and audio tracks.
Beginning from the 2012 version, Amiga Forever ships with an RP9 Editor for content authoring. Besides its own authoring and playback environment and Cloanto'sfloppy disk conversion service, Amiga Forever includesWinUAE andWinFellow, and different versions ofUAE and E-UAE for other platforms. All versions of Amiga Forever include differentAmigaOS (m68k) environments and support to run a large range ofAmiga games anddemoscene productions which are available for download from different software publishers and Amiga history sites. The Windows version also includes Cloanto's Amiga Explorer networking software, which allows access to Amiga resources (including virtual floppy, hard disk andROM image files) from the Windows Desktop.
Amiga International, the owner of theintellectual property rights to the AmigaOS, sought to protect its property from people distributing unauthorized copies of the ROM files required for emulating Amiga software over the Internet.[4] On October 7, 1997, it announced on its website that it had granted Cloanto, publisher of Amiga productivity applications, the rights to publish an Amiga emulator containing the AmigaOS software. The first version of Amiga Forever was released on November 14, 1997, after its debut at the Computer '97 show inCologne, Germany.[5] It was contained on aCD-ROM which contained a front-end for Windows and different versions of UAE for Windows,DOS,MacOS andLinux, plus Fellow for DOS and a selection ofAmiga Kickstart ROM images andWorkbench disks.[6][better source needed] The new plugin-based player software was introduced in 2007.
Amiga Forever was ported toAndroid and appeared as aGoogle Chrome extension, both in 2013 as Amiga Forever essentials. In both cases, the application provides the necessaryROM files for emulators designed for Android and Google Chrome respectively.[7][8]
Amiga Forever comes bundled withall versions of the official Amiga ROM and OS files, from versions 0.7 to 3.1.[9] It is also bundled with two preconfiguredfree and open source emulators:UAE andFellow.[10]
The Amiga Explorer is a networking framework that facilitates data sharing between a PC and an actual Amiga computer. It readily converts files stored on Amiga disk files into theAmiga Disk File format, and also allows PC users tomount drives on an Amiga machine, both for PC use.[11]
Other features include:
