Play Amiga Games In Your Browser

By Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket)
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Updated: January 31, 2013

Rupert Hausberger is a clever man as he’s gone and created this shiny HTML 5 Amiga Emulator.

Thanks to Rupert’s lovely brain, you can now play Commodore Amiga games in your browser using this scripted Amiga emulator; assuming you have a half-decent PC and (ideally) use Google Chrome. Other browsers are supported, but either aren’t as fast as Chrome or like Internet Explorer are just crap.

The whole emulator is written in Javascript and includes options to switch between the various Amiga specifications. You’ve got your basic A500 and A1200 models, chip RAM, fast/slow RAM, additional disk drives with turbo loading capability and support for different Kickstart (i.e. the OS) ROMs.

But if you just want to play some games you can as there’s a selection of obscure titles to mess around with.

Games available:

Air Ace II
Asteroids
Crazy Sue
Deluze Galaga 2.4
Hoi
Pollymorf
Sqrxz and Sqrxz 2
Super Obliteration
Tanx

You’ll need to get hold of the relevant Amiga Disk Files (ADFs) if you want to play some of the classic Amiga games like Turrican II: The Final Fight, Alien Breed and Frontier using this emulator.

Commodore also liked to give female names to the main chips inside each Amiga. The three main custom chips were called Agnus (central processing), Denise (video) and Paula (audio). Now, over 25 years later you get to see exactly how they worked as Richard has released the emulator’s source code on GitHub. Be warned though, you might spend a lot of time lost walking through the code.

Although it helps to have a decent rig to run this emulator, I’ve been playing quite happily on my 2-year old PC without a single Guru Meditation (aka software failure) in sight.

Add a bit of retro gaming to your life, check out this emulator now.

Update 2nd Feb 2013: Corrected the author’s name behind the emulator. My apologies to Rupert Hausberger who was the guy behind this brilliant browser based emulator. Sorry :(

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3 Comments

Rupert Hausberger

1st Feb, 2013 at 5:48 pm

Are you sure “Richard Davey” is the author of this project? Nice to see the name of someone else under the own project… ;)

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- Nick Silversides (CaptSkyRocket)
  
  2nd Feb, 2013 at 12:09 pm
  
  Hi Rupert,
  
  Sorry, for some reason I got it into my brain that Richard had created the emulator. I have updated the post accordingly to correctly credit you with all your hard work!
  
  Thanks for creating the emulator :)
  
  Nick
  
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Rupert Hausberger

2nd Feb, 2013 at 1:16 pm

No problem, thanks :)

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Nick is a 38 yr old male gamer. It all started back in 1984 with a little known game on the BBC Micro called Elite and its been downhill since then via ownership of the Atari ST, Amiga, A500 and A1200, PC Engine GT, PS1, PC, PS2, Gameboy Advance, SP and DS, PSP, Wii and most recently the PS3. He likes first-person shooters and role-playing games – citing Dungeon Master as “the greatest game ever made” – driving games, the odd platformer and the Zelda games.