When I was looking for a guide to set up an Amiga on my shiny new iMac, I scanned the forums and Googled the web. I didn't find one. This is the reason for this guide; I've actually enjoyed setting up EUAE myself (although it has taken longer) as I have learnt things on the way. For the record I have a 17" iMac G5, 250Gig HD, 1Gig Ram and OSX 10.4.5 I absolutely love this computer, I didn't think I would ever love using a computer as much as my Amiga, back in the day. Although it has to be said that WINUAE is an amazing piece of software, and that the combination of this running on Windows is unbeatable, I could still not bring myself to be restricted to only using Windows at home, as I think I would slowly loose my mind. Mac OSX is just so much better than Windows. Throughout this guide, I will be using Amiga Forever from the guys at Cloanto - this is an excellent packaged software Amiga, with data and configurations that can be used on the Mac. I am assuming some working knowledge of Mac OSX and some knowledge of the Amiga in this guide. I also assume you either have copies of your own Amiga ROMs and games or have purchased Amiga forever. Anyway, lets get the show on the road. First things first, lets get an Amiga to boot and show the boot rom screens. Start by visiting the web-site of Daniel Pimley, here you will find a most useful piece of software. Hi-Toro allows you to use a graphic front end to EUAE. EUAE is Richard Drummond's Enhanced Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator. Hi-Toro will use / edit and import UAE configuration files to then pass to EUAE to launch and control your Amiga. So first download Hi-Toro v0.3.7 for Tiger, or Hi-Toro v0.2.7 for Panther. This is in the form of a zip, unzip this and expand it somewhere useful, I have put mine in /users/xxxx/Emulators/Amiga. Next you need to download EUAE itself, click the link to "E-UAE www.rcdrummond.net/uae" scroll to the bottom of the page and download "e- uae_0.8.28_macosx-ppc_sdl.zip" expand this into the same folder as Hi- Toro. Nearly there, there is one more thing that is needed. EUAE renders to the screen with the help of a set of libraries (called SDL), this means that the code in EUAE can stay the same with just the display libraries changed for each platform that EUAE can be compiled for. Lastly before we can get an Amiga on screen you need to visit www.libsdl.org, download the SDL runtime libraries for your computer, I am using SDL- 1.2.9.dmg. The slight complication here is that you need to place them in the correct place on your computer. Place them into /Library/Frameworks, it should be called "SDL.framework". You need to be an administrator to place the SDL library here, so if you are using a standard OS account it's easiest to do a fast user switch to an Admin account to place your files. Phew! we now have all the software needed for our working Amiga! If you already have some Amiga kickstart ROM files (mine came from my Amigas) and an Amiga floppy disc image (ADF file) you can start to have fun. Let's boot the Amiga, double click on default.uaerc this launches Hi-Toro with default values. Click on ROM then choose your Amiga ROM, I am using my kick31.rom because it has a nice animation of a disc going into a drive. If you have done everything correctly, after clicking on 'ok', you should see The lovely colours of an Amiga tick and an animated disc. You now have an Amiga on your Mac in a window, well done! At this point, if you have an Amiga floppy image you can choose "Disk" on the UAE menu click "insert DF0:" and the Amiga will boot the disc. First thing I tried was Wizball, this was the first game I got with my Amiga 500 when I had finally saved up enough money for it when I was at school. If you do not have an Amiga ROM from a real Amiga, you will need to purchase Amiga Forever. In which case you can use the ROM’s provided by Cloanto, these are stored on the CD in the folder //Emulation/system/rom, for instance for the above example I would use "amiga-os-310.rom". Note: You have to use the "rom.key" file with Rom images supplied by Cloanto in Hi- Toro's ROM page. Next I am going to describe how to copy and set up workbench. There two main ways I know to get a quality workbench implementation. You can either download the fab AIAB (Amiga in a Box) unfortunately this is rather slow on EUAE as it uses so many nice bits of Amiga software, it can really test an Amiga emulator. Thanks to James’s expert work you can configure AIAB to use less resources. Or you can purchase the Fab AmigaForever (I bought the 2005 Premium Edition) this gives you legal Roms and disk images, an excellent workbench implementation that works well with EUAE, and configuration files that you can use as a basis for your own set-ups. Firstly Amiga Forever, make a folder called something like Harddrives in your Amiga folder on your Mac. You need to copy the System and work Amiga drives from the Amiga forever CD. There is an error on the Amiga Forever CD. Copy /Emulation/shared/dir/System to the folder on your Mac where you would like to store your Amiga harddisk drives. I copied mine to /Amiga/Harddrives/AF. Most of /Emulation/shared/dir/Work is fine, except /software/awebcatalogues where there are two folders with '?' as their name (illegal on OSX) exclude one of them and all is well. You should now have two folders on your Mac, /Amiga/Harddrives/AF/System and /Amiga/Harddrives/AF/Work, these are your two Amiga forever workbench 3.1 Harddrives. You need to create an EUAERC configuration file containing your rom image for OS3.1, and the harddrives section of Hi-Toro pointing to your Amiga forever drives. Set DH0: to the location you stored your Amiga System drive, then set DH1: to the location you stored your Amiga Work drive. Set the Amiga volume names in Hi-Torro to match the name of the Amiga harddrives, for instance set DH0: System to the volume name of "System:", then set the DH1: volume name to "Work:" Save this configuration, now you should be able to boot your Amiga with two Amiga hard disks running Amiga OS3.1 It should look something like this…. You should now be able to use the same techniques to download Amiga in a box from http://aiab.emuunlim.com. I downloaded aiab-20050606.zip from this site. Expand this to your Amiga harddrives folder. You should end up with 3 Amiga harddrives called, Workbench: Applications: and HD-Games, I put these in a folder /Amiga/Harddrives/AIAB. When you first boot Amiga in a box it will ask for an original Amiga workbench 3.1 disk, use "amiga-310-wb.adf" from /Emulation/System/adf. after AIAB asks you to set a Picasso screen mode it will reset your virtual Amiga. Lets take stock. we can boot An Amiga showing it's rom to load disks into both an Amiga 500 and Amiga 1200. We can boot an Amiga forever install of workbench 3.1 and Amiga in a Box from two sets of virtual Amiga harddrives both running on retargetable graphics card virtual hardware. Not bad. Now lets take a step back in time. Copy //Emulation/demos and games from AF CD Copy //Emulation/system/adf/amigaos-134-wb.adf for a workbench 1.3 Amiga to the location you are storing your workbench floppy disks, Navigate to the location you stored your demos. You should find the file "legacy.UAE" rename this to "legacy.uaerc" you can now double click this file which will load Cloanto's UAE configuration into Hi-Toro (there may be an error with some items that don't yet exist within Hi-Toro). Next set the boot floppies to DF0: "/Floppies/Workbench/amigaos-134-wb.adf" and DF1: to "Floppies/AF/Demos/amiga_first_demos/af-demos-01.adf" Save then run this configuration. You now have an early Amiga booting Amigados 1.3.4, complete with the demos run at the launch of the Amiga. I am still stunned today that at a time when other computers thought 4 colours was cool, the Amiga launch demos would blow you away. Such a shame Commodore did not realise what an amazing computer they had on their hands, they could have wiped the floor with IBM and Apple. Try the revolutionary multitasking ability of the early Amiga by running the ‘boing’ demo, and pulling down the OS screen, you should see the demo running behind the Amiga workbench. Now you should be able to use the techniques described above to copy and rename all the EUAE configuration files to EUAERC’s, edit these and store them in /Amiga/Configurations to give you one click access to each Amiga, Workbench implementation, Demos & games. Remember to make a configuration for an Amiga 1200 and Amiga 500 booting to their roms, so that you can use them to load disks that you haven’t configured yet.