Setting up emulation

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Configuration

First, begin by downloading WinUAE, either the installer or zip should work fine. After you launch WinUAE, you should see an error message. Continue and you should see a window like this

Once you're here, on the sidebar select the Paths tab, you should now see a screen with a bunch of different paths to different folders. Select the 'System ROMs' path, then copy and paste it into File Explorer. Here is where you will copy and paste over your Kickstart ROM.

After that, go back to WinUAE, click 'Rescan ROMs' and you should see 'A500+' as one of the scanned ROMs.

Then, in whatever order, set the Emulation settings accordingly:

In the 'CPU and FPU' tab, select 68000 under CPU. Example
In the Chipset tab, select 'Full ECS' and check NTSC. Example
In the ROM tab, under 'Main ROM file' select something along the lines of 'KS ROM v2.04 (A500+) rev 37.175 (512k)'. This is your ROM file. Example
In the RAM tab, set Chip to 1 MB and 'Z2 Fast' to the maximum (8 MB). Example

NOTE: If you get an ER011, set the Z2 Fast to 1 MB.

In the 'Floppy drives' tab and select the PREVUE.ADF file downloaded earlier. Optionally you can slide the Emulation Speed to the far left, in other words Turbo. Example

If you downloaded the ZIP archive, extract it somewhere, copy the directory, then in the 'CD & Hard drives' tab click 'Add Directory or Archive...' and follow along with these settings:

For the device name, type in DH1.
The volume label can be anything, or left blank.
Set the path to the extracted ZIP archive.
Tick both Read/write and Bootable.
NOTE: You MUST ALSO go into the Floppy drives tab and DISABLE DF0 if you plan on using the ZIP. Otherwise, you will get a "You MUST insert system disk into drive 0!" error and no graphic ads will load.

Optionally, you can save this as a Configuration if you don't want to bother inputting everything again.

Emulation

Now, you can press OK to start the Emulation. If you did everything right, you should see a command prompt open up in the emulated window, and after a few seconds Prevue should be booting.

SIDE-NOTE: If you have your host's date set to December 13, cached listings from the disk should start rolling in.

You should get somewhere if in a couple of seconds, the info screen goes away and a clock shows up. You will probably also get ER007, which means that there's no incoming listings. Why don't we fix that?.