Fellow is an
emulator designed to run
software written for the
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphi ...
computer platform. Released under the
GNU General Public License,
Fellow is
free software.
Fellow was released shortly after the first usable release of the
Unix Amiga Emulator (UAE). The competition between the two projects proved to be mutually beneficial. Originally, Fellow ran under
DOS, but was ported to
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
(WinFellow) and
Linux (XFellow.) Development on WinFellow ceased in 2005, but was revived with a new release in 2010 to improve compatibility with
Windows 7 and
Windows Vista. Development on XFellow has apparently halted after a release in 2003 (based on timestamps inside the archive).
According to its author, Petter Schau, one of the main objectives in writing Fellow was to create an Amiga emulator that could run demos from the 1980s Amiga
demoscene at full speed.
Schau believed that Fellow and UAE belonged to a class of first-generation Amiga emulators, and that more accurate, full-speed emulators would be available in the future. As computing power increased, full-speed performance became achievable.
Once more powerful computers were available, UAE became preferable due to its more accurate emulation, whereas Fellow remains popular for older hardware.
See also
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Amiga emulation
References
External links
WinFellowXFellow
Amiga emulators
Amiga
DOS emulation software
Windows emulation software
Free video game console emulators
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