Amiga Emulator for Android

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shagrath78

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• Dec 21, 2009

• #1

Hi folks, I spent a good part of my sunday (and friday night, let's be honest) to port UAE4All for Android. So here's UAE4Droid. Most games are working fine, don't expect killer framerates though (it should be faster on a Droid). I don't plan to actively support this app, so here's the catch:
-no sound
-physical controls only (that's why I post here, you can configure them btw)
-no save states (the original project does not implement them, and I'm no good at understand basics of the 68000 emulation)
-should be ok starting from Android 1.5 but I didn't test it (Dream on Cyanogen here).
You need to own a rom copy and some disks to use this legally, of course. If there's some good feedbacks, maybe I'll put it in the market (already done a couple of emulators there). Enjoy !

Edit 12/27 : Now with sound and touch controls on the Android Market

 

Last edited: Dec 28, 2009

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Freedomcaller

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• Dec 22, 2009

• #2

damn you did this in one day?

 

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shagrath78

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• Dec 22, 2009

• #3

make it one and a half
It's a port, not that hard, once you got some Android knowledge, the basics of the SDK-NDK interaction, and the open source works from several people. And I left some parts (sound and touch controls), quite buggy/boring to code

 

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jzanitsch

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• Dec 23, 2009

• #4

Did you ever know that you were my hero? Seriously, great stuff! If you could add sound this would be the best thing I have on my phone!

 

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Areinu

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• Dec 24, 2009

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Amazing. Superfrog works pretty well. If I could just insert all floppies at once it would be completely awesome.

If you're not planning on supporting this too much in the future would you consider making it open source?

It's completely fun to put android next to my old ami500, old 1200 and turn on superfrog on each

 

2TallSwede

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Palmer

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• Dec 24, 2009

• #6

Oh wow...that's pretty impressive. Superfrog on my phone would be awesome! I'll have to try it.

 

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shagrath78

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• Dec 26, 2009

• #7

Ok, hate to leave work unfinished so I added the sound and touch controls. Watch the Market, it should appear there soon.

btw to enable the sound on a HTC Dream makes the emulator a little more sluggish, well now at least you'll have the choice (or buy a 2nd gen Android device )

 

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Gerdal

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xirit.pl

• Dec 26, 2009

• #8

Not working properly. App asks me to force close when I'm pressing MENU button... Previous build (from first post) works properly. Can I please to fix this bug?

After all, great job

 

Last edited: Dec 26, 2009

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shagrath78

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• Dec 26, 2009

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Damn, I didn't make that much changes, could you get me a log trace ?

 

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Gerdal

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xirit.pl

• Dec 26, 2009

• #10

Hmm It's weird... After a couple of restarts of phone, the app is working correctly... I will leave a post (and logcat) when this problem come back.

 

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Kubax83

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Iserlohn

• Dec 26, 2009

• #11

Sadly doesn't Install on Eclair.

adb install gives Error Message "INSTALL_FAILED_CPU_ABI_INCOMPATIBLE"

 

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shagrath78

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• Dec 27, 2009

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Kubax83 said:

Sadly doesn't Install on Eclair.

adb install gives Error Message "INSTALL_FAILED_CPU_ABI_INCOMPATIBLE"

Click to expand...

Click to collapse

looks like a modded ROM issue to me (this emulator is compiled for ARM, no doubt about it). Try the one from the market

 

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friedgoldmole

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Jan 10, 2009

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• Dec 27, 2009

• #13

Wow this works really well, playing Superfrog on it now Any plans to add save states to this?

I wonder how much better performance is on the droid. Superfrog plays perfectly on my G1 with frame skip disabled and sound off, having it on made it more jerky.

Also would it possible to have the escape key mapped to something, like the shutter button or as a menu item, i'm sure some games needed it to get into the menu.

Thanks for porting this!!

 

Last edited: Dec 27, 2009

Dac0908

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Dec 11, 2009

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• Dec 28, 2009

• #14

5 stars from me

works great, played with it a little. kickstarted 3.0 ROM, loaded game with no problems - but Hero's hardware isn't up to it. Maybe on my next android, with faster CPU and proper keyboard...

 

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friedgoldmole

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• Dec 29, 2009

• #15

Only problem I have had is it doesn't seem to like some of my Kickstart rom files, it works fine with one of the 1.3 roms I had with WinUAE, but says Invalid for most of the others including 3.1, all of which work in WinUAE, any ideas?

 

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shagrath78

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• Dec 29, 2009

• #16

what's the exact size of the non working roms ?

 

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friedgoldmole

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• Dec 29, 2009

• #17

Non working rom size is as follows:

3.1 - 524,299 bytes

Just thinking could it be because it is a rom from Amiga Forever from Cloanto, do they use a keyfile for the rom?

 

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shagrath78

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• Dec 29, 2009

• #18

No, because I thought every roms was 524288 bytes long. Will update the market version tonight

 

DocMAX

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• Dec 30, 2009

• #19

Blazing fast on a Droid/Milestone! Thanks a lot. Just the Mouse-Control is still a little buggy. For Disk-Activity you could use the green/red led! =)

 

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lxrose

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• Dec 30, 2009

• #20

how keyboard is emulated

Hi,
I have successfully set-up UAE4Droid, tried my favorite game, but it(Pinball Fantasies) needs alt or shift to control the game. I could not figure out how to play the game because of this. (Pressing alt or shift on the G1 does not work. )
Anybody know how to use these keys?
Thanks

Sandor