Amiga Forever: What's
New
New features in Amiga
Forever 2009:
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All included games and demoscene
productions are now in RP2 format (uses less disk space and makes it very
easy to add or remove files)
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RP2 Manager to scan for and
import/export content
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Built-in RetroPlatform Library
(to recognize and configure games, etc.) with live updates
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Seamless, one-click integration
of AmiKit and AmigaSYS add-ons lets you experience a broader variety of
Amiga perspectives*
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New system ROMs (e.g. the
0.7 Kickstart required to run the software used by Andy Warhol in the 1985
Launch of Amiga demo)*
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Improved documentation and
help (new Tip of The Day balloon, new documentation in Windows Help format)
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Emphasis on usability: interface
and settings are improved, but remain consistent with the previous 2008
version and with C64 Forever (also see Tips for Upgraders)
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Tested to comply with "Compatible
with Windows 7" requirements, with full support for Windows Vista and Windows
7, both x86 and x64 (possibly still the first and only Windows software
with custom-shaped glass-enabled skin)
Additional new and
improved features that were already included in part in Amiga Forever 2008*:
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Content more than quadrupled
(disk images are now compressed in the new RP2 format, and also used directly
by the installer)
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New "Amiga Forever Game Pack
I" (more than 100 games)
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More than 100 beautiful demoscene
productions
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New Gallery items: original
Tripos article, "top secret" Amiga-Atari documents, and much more
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New system HDFs: complete
Amiga OS 1.3, 2.1 and 3.1 installations with only a minimum of add-ons
(e.g. Y2K fixes, RTG update for 3.1), but otherwise identical to the original
(including file attributes as intended by Commodore, which were lost in
later distributions)
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New ADFs (1.3 Extras, complete
3.1 install set, etc.)
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New ROMs (Amiga 1000, A590
and A4091 boot ROMs, system-specific ROMs required for added compatibility,
etc.)
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Preinstalled WHDLoad "kickemu"
support
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New KX Light, bootable from
CD and with HD installation option (now featuring live updates) and extended
hardware support
Additional details
about the player for Windows, which was also greatly improved in the new
2009 version:
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Revolutionary new and intuitive
player interface for Windows, for easy selection and playback of games
and other content
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Professional skin design
with familiar "media player" interface
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Buttons and other visual
controls provide intuitive access to content and emulation features (pause,
resume, disk change, reboot, joystick vs. keyboard selection, window size
selection, full screen, Amiga screen capture, etc.)
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The new Amiga Forever player
makes it possible to double-click or drag-and-drop downloaded disk images
(e.g. RP2, ADF, ADZ, IPF, etc.) to play them, using heuristic content analysis
to preset a suitable Amiga hardware configuration
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The player has built-in support
for dual screens (can use secondary display for full-screen Amiga) and
multiple emulation sessions
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Rather than closing an emulation
session, it is possible to save its state, for example to resume a game
at a later time (the session is up and running again in an instant)
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It is also possible to undo
the changes from the last session and revert to a previous saved state
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Full undo of RP2, ADF, ADZ,
HDF and HDZ disk writes (disk changes may be committed or discarded when
exiting the emulation)
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Windowed mode visualizes
games and demoscene productions as they were meant to be displayed, without
large unused overscan areas
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Helpful visualization of
additional details (Amiga mouse options, device status with green/red read/write
LEDs, context-specific help tips, Tip of the Day balloons, etc.)
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Integrated video playback
(requires MPEG-2 support by the operating system, otherwise the Amiga Forever
videos can be read by any DVD player)
* Indicates Plus Edition
Features. The Express Edition and Value Edition are limited to 1.3 ROM,
and only include 50 games out of the box (which is still more than in previous
versions of the software).
Features describing the
"player" refer to the Windows version. Amiga content is also usable on
other platforms, with additional software (both included and available
for download elsewhere).