Alternatives to Amiberry
An Amiga emulator built on the WinUAE core, optimized for ARM and x86 hardware. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Amiberry
An Amiga emulator built on the WinUAE core, optimized for ARM and x86 hardware.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Amiberry.
WinUAE
A detailed Commodore Amiga emulator for Windows that reproduces the Amiga chipsets closely.
WinUAE is the upstream Amiga emulator Amiberry is built on, with detailed chipset emulation and frequent releases, but it runs only on Windows and has no ARM board focus.
FS-UAE
A cross-platform Amiga emulator focused on games, with a database-driven launcher.
FS-UAE targets Amiga games on Windows, macOS and Linux with a launcher that configures games from the OpenRetro database, though version 5 is still an early alpha.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Hatari
An Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator that closely reproduces the original hardware.
VICE
A long-running emulator for Commodore 8-bit computers, including the C64, C128, VIC-20, PET and Plus/4.
Clock Signal
A latency-focused emulator covering dozens of 8- and 16-bit home computers and game consoles.
RetroArch
One front end for dozens of emulators, with unified settings, shaders and a controller setup you only do once.
Lakka
A lightweight Linux distribution built on RetroArch that turns small computers into retro gaming consoles.
Batocera.linux
A free, open-source retro gaming Linux distribution that boots from a USB stick or SD card.
