Now to start the UAE emulation itself you can simply double click on any of the preconfigured setups defined in AF or AIAB, however as with anything a little bit of tinkering can help to improve things significantly.

Below is a section by section guide to things that you can tweak for that little bit of extra oomph.

The Chipset Window

If you are using Amiga Forever the chances are that all the pre configurations will be set to Full ECS. If you are using a PC @ less than 1ghz I would recommend leaving this setting as it is unless you specifically require AGA for a game or an application. It is not required for Workbench as this is handled by Picasso and will be running at 16 or 32bit. Collision level can be left at the default unless you run into problems. An example of this is Deluxe Galaga AGA which requires the Collision Level to be set to Full on some systems. If you have a game which supports NTSC you may also tick the NTSC box.

The Sound Window

The sound settings for UAE can vary depending on the spec of your PC. Over 1.2ghz and you should be able to get fully accurate stereo at 44100 with no real issues. Sound is the one thing that can greatly effect the performance of UAE so if the performance seems shaky the sound settings are always a good place to look. For Around 1ghz try setting the sound to 22500 Stereo and Enabled, BufferSize and Sound Driver Lag Compensation as Default and Interpolation Disabled. For a machine of 1.2 ghz or faster you should be able to run as shown in the window.

The Floppies Window

UAE allows you to emulate up to 4 Amiga Floppy Drives and supports both Double and High Density. To boot from a floppy simply click on the ... button next to the drive and select the ADF image to use. Another advantage to UAE is the ability to speed up the floppy performance. As well as the Turbo Option you can increase the performance up to 800%. I would suggest selecting 800% as this will work for the majority of titles. You will however, come across a few titles that will require you to set this to normal.

The Create Standard Floppy Process

If you click "create standard floppy" you will be prompted to save blank.adf. Click Save and you will now have a blank 720dd Floppy suitable for save games when required.