Editing UAE (emulator) (section)

== Features ==
UAE is almost a full-featured Amiga emulator. It emulates most of its functions:

* [[Original Amiga chipset|Original Chip Set]] (OCS), [[Enhanced Chip Set]] (ECS) and [[Advanced Graphics Architecture]] (AGA)<ref name="ae_feat"/>
* I/O devices: ([[floppy disk]] drives, [[joystick]], [[Computer mouse|mouse]] and [[serial ports]])
* Processor: [[Motorola 68000]]/[[Motorola 68010|010]]/[[Motorola 68020|020]]/[[Motorola 68040|040]] CPU, optionally a [[Motorola 68881|68881]] FPU,<ref name="ae_feat"/><ref name=Amiga-Active-01>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/AmigActive_Issue_01_1999-10_Pinprint_GB/page/n19|title=Active reviews – Amiga Forever 3|last=Compton|first=Jason|magazine=Amiga Active|date=October 1999|access-date=2022-05-15|issue=1|page=38}}</ref> and as of WinUAE 3.0.0 beta 15, an enhanced [[PowerPC]] [[Just-in-time compilation|JIT]] core using the [[QEMU]] CPU libraries.<ref>{{cite web|title=WinUAE 3.0.0 Beta 16 Changelog|url=https://github.com/tonioni/WinUAE/commit/3e88892aadfc65919c7e34b7f99225e1cacadb91|website=GitHub|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref>
* Memory: 2 MB Chip RAM and 8 MB Fast RAM, or 8 MB Chip RAM without Fast RAM. 64 MB [[Amiga Zorro III|Zorro III]] Fast RAM, independent of Chip RAM setting (68020+ only). 1 MB Slow RAM, for compatibility.<ref name="ae_feat">{{cite web|title=UAE Amiga Emulator|url=https://amiga.technology/uae/|access-date=2016-03-13}}</ref>
* [[ReTargetable Graphics#Picasso 96|Picasso 96]] graphics with 8&nbsp;MB of memory<ref name="ae_feat"/><ref name=Amiga-Active-01/>
* Serial port, and Simple parallel port is only sufficient for printing.<ref name="ae_feat"/>
* Networking via bsdsocket.library emulation<ref name="foss_bsdsocket">{{cite web|title=uae-0.8.29.tar.gz: uae-0.8.29/src/bsdsocket.c &#124; Fossies Archive|url=http://fossies.org/linux/misc/uae-0.8.29.tar.gz:a/uae-0.8.29/src/bsdsocket.c|access-date=2013-06-09|publisher=fossies.org}}</ref><ref name="go_bsdsocket">{{cite web|title=bsdsocket.txt - uae-wii - A port of the UNIX Amiga Emulator to Nintendo Wii - Google Project Hosting |url=https://code.google.com/p/uae-wii/source/browse/trunk/docs/bsdsocket.txt?r=2&spec=svn3|access-date=2013-06-09}}</ref>

For software, UAE may use [[disk image]]s made from original Amiga [[floppy disk]]s. These images have the file extension of "[[Amiga Disk File|ADF]]" (Amiga Disk File). Actual Amiga disks cannot be used, because of limitations in the [[floppy controllers]] used in other computers.<ref>{{cite web|url=//www.suite101.com/article.cfm/amiga/25486/2 |title=UAE - The Amiga Emulator |last=Chandler |first=John |work=Suite101 |page=2 |year=1999 |access-date=2009-07-15 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071104132034/www.suite101.com/article.cfm/amiga/25486/2 |archive-date=November 4, 2007 }}</ref>
Images of Amiga [[File format|formatted]] [[hard drive]]s can also be made. UAE also supports mapping [[Virtual machine#Definitions|host operating system]]'s directories to Amiga hard drives, and finally, physical Amiga formatted hard drives can be mounted.

UAE does not include the original Amiga operating system ROM and files, which are required for running an Amiga system. These are included under license in packages like [[Amiga Forever]]. Original Kickstart 3.1 ROM images are also included with [[AmigaOS 4|AmigaOS4]] for [[PowerPC]] since version 4.1 Update 4. UAE also supports alternative system ROMs, such as those derived from the [[AROS]] project, however these do not provide the same degree of software compatibility as the original ROMs.