Amiga Mac Emulator Midi

FS-UAE is an Amiga emulator for Linux,Mac OS X and Windows based on UAE/WinUAE, with a focus on emulating games. Features include emulation of Amiga 500, 1200, 4000, CD32 and CDTV, perfectly smooth scrolling on 50Hz displays, support for floppy images in ADF and IPF formats, CD-ROM images in ISO or BIN/CUE format, mounting folders on your computer as Amiga hard drives, support for Picasso 96.

MM FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions about Music Mouse

What about PC?

This is probably the most frequently asked question about Music Mouse. Music Mouse is for Macintosh, Amiga and Atari ST only. It is not available for PC-Wintel computers. However a reliable source has shown that Music Mouse for Atari can be run on PCs within the STEEM Atari emulator. I don't know if it would run in any Mac emulators for PC, so please let me know if you try that or find additional emulators that work with any versions of Music Mouse.

Note: The Atari version of Music Mouse is identical to the last Macintosh OS 9 version except that due to the Atari computers' lack of internally synthesized sound it outputs MIDI data only. For instructions on running Music Mouse on a PC in the STEEM Atari emulator, please see these pages on Tim Conrardy's wonderful Atari MIDI website:

Tim's Atari MIDI World
Atari Music Mouse
The STEem Engine Atari Emulator for PC

Is Music Mouse still available, and what is the current version?

In general, the Music Mouse upgrades of recent years did not include new features, but mainly just modifications so that the program would remain compatible with changes in Macintosh hardware and System software. The Atari and Amiga versions of Music Mouse have not been upgraded since the discontinuation of their respective host computers, but they both still run fine. They are available until the existing supply of packages runs out, and after that if there is still demand for them.

How do I get it?

A demo of the current Macintosh version (v. 2.1.2) can be downloaded from my website. After you try it and you know that it runs satisfactorily with your configuration, you can buy/register for the non-demo version of the update on my web registration page.

What is the difference between the demo and 'full version'?

The difference between the demo and the full version is that the demo will only run for about 5 minutes before the program quits. The non-demo runs indefinitely and includes digital versions of the manual and keyboard map.

How do I get output on a USB Macintosh?

If you are using the Mac's internal sound, just select 'QuickTime' on MM's 'Output' menu. If you are using a MIDI interface on a 'Stealth Serial Port', Music Mouse will write to that port with no problem. If you are using MIDI via a USB port, I plan to but have not found the time to do an update that either uses OMS'd drivers or outputs to the USB bus. In this case you can still get MIDI output from Music Mouse by selecting 'QuickTime' on Music Mouse's 'Output' menu, and then using the QuickTime Setup Control Panel and/or OMS Setup to select MIDI output or whatever driver type is appropriate for your system.

Important Note: It appears that QuickTime seems to require that OMS be installed in order to recognize any external MIDI ports. Somehow this is not documented anywhere that it should be. Even if you have FreeMIDI (www.motu.com) installed, which is still be supported while OMS is no longer supported, QT will not find external MIDI hardware.

The current version is 2.3.8. Run the installer then do the setup. Avoid using the OMS control panel ('OMS Preferred Device'), which crashed for me (Mac OS 9.1). But the 'OMS Setup' program seems to work ok.

With which Atari models is Music Music compatible?

Music Mouse for Atari runs on ALL Atari Platforms:

• ST
• STE
• TT030
• Falcon

Is there a demo of the Atari version?

There is currently no available demo of the Atari version of Music Mouse, but it is is identical in function to the Mac version, so if you have a willing/interested friend with a Mac, download the Mac demo to see if you like the program.

How much does Music Mouse cost?

The current price of the full program with instruction manual, tutorial and keyboard map is $29 for any of the 3 'breeds' (Mac, Atari, Amiga). An update costs $14. I send the Mac version by email and the other versions by airmail, as soon as kagi.com, who process the payments, email me that an order has been received.

Thanks for your continuing interest and support for the little music rodent!

The Commodore Amiga’s top-notch sound and graphics made it one of the most desirable home computers of the ’80s and early ’90s, at a time when your average IBM PC was still plodding along with EGA graphics and an internal beeper. Amiga games from the era have aged incredibly well, and look and play brilliantly on everything from a portable display to a widescreen TV. We’ll take you through turning your Raspberry Pi 3 into a perfect modern-day Amiga emulator. You’ll need a Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux desktop operating system to copy the Amibian Linux distribution to your SD card and unpack the Kickstart ROMs required to make it work smoothly.

The full article can be found in The MagPi 52 and was written by K.G. Orphanides.

You'll need

• microSD card
• USB stick
• Wired Xbox 360 controller

Start by downloading the Amibian distro. Format a microSD card, decompress the Amibian RAR file, and use Win32DiskImager or Linux’s dd command to copy the IMG file to the card. A 4GB card should be plenty, as Amibian only occupies around 300MB.

Slot the microSD card into your Pi and power up. It’ll boot directly into the UAE4ARM emulator, but there’s some extra configuration to do before we start playing. Quit UAE4ARM to get to the command line and run:

Select Expand Filesystem, which will give you access to the entirety of the SD card’s capacity for storage, then Exit and select Yes to reboot.
If your Pi won’t output sound via HDMI properly, enter this at the command line:

Make sure the following lines are present and aren’t commented out with a preceding hash (#):

Save and return to raspi-config:

Select Advanced Options > Audio > Force HDMI and then reboot.

Kickstart me up

To run Amiga programs, you’ll need a Kickstart ROM – firmware from the original computers. UAE4ARM comes with the open-source AROS ROM, which can run only some Amiga programs, so we recommend using genuine Amiga Kickstarts for reliability.

The Amiga’s Kickstart ROMs and Workbench GUI are still being maintained, thanks to Italian firm Cloanto. Amiga Forever Plus Edition, priced at €29.95, gets you a complete, legal set of Kickstarts for every Amiga computer and console. Cloanto is still working on a Raspberry Pi edition, so you’ll currently have to install Amiga Forever on a Windows PC or Wine and copy the files onto a USB stick.

There are other ways of obtaining Kickstart ROMs, but most are legal grey areas. You can extract them from an Amiga using a tool such as TransRom or find them on abandonware sites, but we strongly recommend supporting Cloanto’s continued development of Amiga Forever.

Classic Amiga software is even easier to find. You’ll get 50 games with Amiga Forever Plus, while some major publishers have made the Amiga versions of their games available for free (see above).

Many more games are only available online as legally dubious abandonware. They’re easily found using any search engine, but inform yourself of the legal status of such software in your region before you download.

One true path

As Amibian doesn’t include a window manager, it’s easiest to download and copy everything to a USB stick using your operating system of choice. Helpfully, UAE4ARM can read Amiga ADF floppy images even if they’re in a ZIP file.

We recommend copying everything to your microSD card. Fire up your Pi, exit UAE4ARM, and run:

Copy your game files from /media/usb to /root/amiga/floppys, and your Kickstart ROMs, including a Cloanto rom.key file if you have one, to /root/amiga/kickstarts. Quit Midnight Commander and reboot:

In the latest version 1.313 of Amibian, two different versions of UAE4ARM are supplied. If you plan on using two Xbox 360 controllers, button mapping on controller two works best using the ‘old’ version, although the ‘new’ edition generally provides more options. To switch between the two, at the command line type either rpiold or rpinew. The following configuration instructions work with both versions.

Configure UAE4ARM

First, go to the Paths tab and click Rescan ROMs so UAE4ARM knows where to find everything.

The Configurations tab lets you select from several preset hardware emulations, with the default being an A1200 - just select and Load your chosen computer. You can tweak your virtual hardware in the CPU and FPU, Chipset, and RAM tabs.

Your configuration selection doesn’t always set the relevant Kickstart ROM for you, so check the ROM tab, where you can choose Kickstarts from a pull-down menu. Note that many games require a specific ROM or hardware configuration to work properly, depending on which system they were originally released for.

To run most software, you’ll need the Floppy drives tab. Just press the … icon next to drive DF0’s Eject button, select the desired disk image, and click Start.

By default only drive DF0 is active, and most titles expect this configuration. To swap disks when prompted, press F12, eject the disk image in DF0, select the disk image you’re asked for, and click Resume.

F12 will always pause and return you to UAE4ARM’s main interface, so you can create a save state – a stored image of your progress in a game – or give up and load something new. The Reset, Quit, and Start/Resume buttons are always visible in UAE4ARM’s GUI. Reset completely reboots your emulation and Resume returns you to your current game.

UAE4ARM automatically detects Xbox controllers. You can use two controllers for multiplayer gaming - if the second is unresponsive, you may need to press F11 to disable your mouse and switch control to the pad. If you’re running the ‘new’ version of the emulator, first select your controllers from the pull-down Port0 and Port1 menus in the Input settings.

Now you’ve got your Amiga emulator up and running, there’s plenty of scope to build on the project, from setting up virtual hard disks to install Workbench and other software onto, to creating floppy images from your own original Amiga disks and using the Pi’s GPIO to connect a classic ’80s joystick.

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