What is Lemon Amiga?
Lemon Amiga is one of the most popular and full-featured Amiga emulators available today. Originally created in 1997, it has been under active development for over 20 years with the goal of accurately emulating the iconic Commodore Amiga line of home computers on modern operating systems.
Lemon Amiga supports emulation of various Amiga models, including the popular A500, A500+, A600, A1200, and A4000. It can run software made for AmigaOS 1.3 through 3.1. Using JIT compilation and dynamic recompilation, Lemon Amiga provides a smooth emulation experience that closely replicates running software on real Amiga hardware.
One standout feature of Lemon Amiga is its excellent support for WHDLoad, an optimized method for launching Amiga games and demoscene productions that were made to run from a hard drive. This allows you to easily install items from your classic Amiga disk collection for play on the emulator.
Other capabilities include save state support, input remapping, graphics filter options for enhanced visuals, Amiga disk image handling, and even the ability to mount real Amiga floppy disk drives to your PC over USB. Lemon Amiga aims for broad hardware and OS compatibility as well.
With frequent updates released by its active development community, Lemon Amiga remains one of the best ways to revisit classic Amiga software on modern computers. Both nostalgic Amiga users and newcomers discovering the platform for the first time will appreciate its accuracy, performance, and robust feature set.