Which WinUAE frontend do you prefer?

[Harrison]

Compared to some other emulators, such as MAME, Amiga emulation hasn't enjoyed as many successful frontends over the years, but there have been a few good ones.

Out of these I would say the most famous two specifically for the Amiga and WinUAE have to be:

Lemonade - From the creators of the Lemon Amiga site.
GameBaseAMI - using the GameBase front end system.

In addition to these there are a few universal front ends that can be customised to work with WinUAE.

MAMEWAH - While that one isn't specifically for the Amiga, it can be easily customised to navigate your Amiga games archive and launch the emulator. It is very lightweight and designed to run from a commandline so you can boot straight to it without needed to first boot Windows fully. Although these days it is a lot of work to get running compared to other frontends.

GameEx - This is a more recent frontend system that is designed to look like the Windows media center. It does look great and works well, but doesn't directly support the Amiga. It also needs quite a recent PC to work well as it is quite resource hungry to work smoothly without slowdown.

There are many other universal front ends, but most have not been updated for some time now, mostly years, so in my view they are now dead and unsupported.

And for the future I look forward to seeing what MAGE has to offer once it gets released. This is aimed at being the successor to GameBase so hopefully it will be great. But only time will tell.

So which Frontend is your current favourite? And what Frontends have you tried?

[Demon Cleaner]

I tried them all, and the easiest to run is without any doubt Lemonade. It also looks good and has a lot of information stored about the games. I wanted to try GameBaseAMI but haven't still done it, I'm only running GameBase64 which also works very good. I have to add that the GameBase frontends do NOT use the same game names that they actually have in the TOSEC. You have to change them or just download the complete GameBase set of the wanted format, which I also have done for GameBaseAMI, you find a torrent or a ed2k link.

While GameEx is a very nice frontend, I haven't used it much as there is many configuration to do before running it, and I didn't have the patience to do so far. And the frontend is constantly updated which is a good sign.

I don't know MAGE yet, so I'm also waiting for it to come. Do you have a link?

[Harrison]

There isn't much information about MAGE yet. EAB has a sub forum for the project here, but most of the threads in that are still talking about GameBase. And the MAGE developers, Belgarath and eLowar have said that although the project isn't abandoned there is still some way to go before any firm announcements or releases.

[Belgarath]

GameBase Amiga is the best for sure (totally unbiased opinion)...

And for those people who voted for Lemonade....
I can only assume you've not tried GameBase Amiga and therefore haven't a clue what you're missing!

[Harrison]

Completely unbiased I'm sure Belgarath!

Can you give us any news on the development of MAGE?

[Belgarath]

Sorry, there's no updated news, but I'll let you know when there is any.

[killergorilla]

I voted for GameBase!

It's gotta get the top vote because it's the only one that directly supports those AWESOME whdload packs I've ready so much about!

[Buleste]

I voted for GameBase!

It's gotta get the top vote because it's the only one that directly supports those AWESOME whdload packs I've ready so much about!

Plug Plug Plug. Is it me or is this thread turning into a self promotion thread?

Welcome KillerGorilla. Loving the whdkload packs.

[killergorilla]

Oh it plays MY whdload packs!

The ones available on http://guildserver.co.uk/kgwhd/ !

I thought it played the OTHER whdload packs

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[Harrison]

Nothing wrong with a bit of self promotion. Especially for such an excellent Amiga project.