Alternatives to FS-UAE
A cross-platform Amiga emulator focused on games, with a database-driven launcher. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
FS-UAE
A cross-platform Amiga emulator focused on games, with a database-driven launcher.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as FS-UAE.
WinUAE
A detailed Commodore Amiga emulator for Windows that reproduces the Amiga chipsets closely.
WinUAE offers detailed Amiga chipset emulation with active releases, but it runs on Windows only and has many configuration options, without FS-UAE's database-driven game launcher.
Amiberry
An Amiga emulator built on the WinUAE core, optimized for ARM and x86 hardware.
Amiberry is built on the WinUAE core with a JIT for ARM64 and x86-64, launches WHDLoad directly, and adds Android and Raspberry Pi support under GPL-3.0.
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.
OpenEmu
macOS emulator front end with a polished library interface.
