FELLOW



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Fellow (latest version: v0.3.1) is a Commodore Amiga emulator, similar to UAE. It is made for MS-DOS environment only and it´s much faster, which is important when you play games (if you have an Amiga emulator, I guess that´s about all you´re actually gonna do with it). It also needs an image file of Amiga´s ROM to run and it uses *.adf and *.adz image files instead of diskettes. Fellow can also emulate Amiga´s hard disk (if you´ve created one with UAE you can use it with Fellow, too), however it can´t mount directories on your hard disk (which makes it pretty much unusable for anything else than playing games, since it also doesn´t support serial or parallel port. But if it´s playing games that you want, Fellow is the best). It also doesn´t use built-in clock, but I guess that´s not really important.
As for compatibility, Fellow can run almost all programs (I haven´t had much problems using it so far), but since Fellow emulates a 68000 processor there are some programs which won´t work (those who demand a higher processor). However, author Peter Schau is working at 68030 emulation and it should be done soon.
So what can you actually do with Fellow ? As I said before, you can run a great majority of games you found on the Internet; Fellow is much faster than UAE, it will work satisfactory even on 486 / 100Mhz, and it will use advantages of an MMX processor (provided you have one, of course :-). Sound emulation is really good and so is graphic, too (Fellow uses VESA drivers, but they are not really necessary (although they´re highly recommended, of course). And it has a built-in GUI which you can access at any time. And it is a freeware, so it doesn´t cost you a thing (unless you´re downloading it from the Internet, in which case you´ll have to spent a little money). You may download Fellow from it´s official site, and you can also try at Tim´s PC-Amiga homepage and Paul McGunnigle´s Emulation Homepage.
An emulator is, of course, pretty much worthless if you don´t have something to run with it. Try these pages and find games and programs of your interest: Lazarus, Trantor´s HomePage, Classics For UAE.
If you have any kind of problems, or you need additional informations, please feel free to contact me via e-mail or you can also use ICQ respond-online panel.
Have fun and remember... Intel Outside !!!