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It’s been a little over two years since the last full version update of the best-known and loved emulator for the Commodore Amiga landed, and now, with that amount of time passed, we have just got WinUAE 6. Now, for Amiga fans, this is hugely exciting, especially if you don’t have access to original hardware or space to leave them set up.

Real hardware fans could still sometimes tell the difference between their beige boxes and Amiga emulation, but now with the release of v6 this gap has closed exponentially. Even as advanced as it was, WinUAE could still cause inconsistencies in certain games due to chipset timings, so news that we now have a, “Major update to custom chipset emulation. Internally, almost everything in main chipset emulation has been rewritten.” means we are closer than ever to perfect emulation of this classic piece of hardware,

There is a ton of other changes under the hood, and we will start seeing this version filter into the front-end packages that rely on it soon enough. In the meantime, you can check out the video below for a deeper dive into what’s new.

The Amiga was a machine that is largely responsible for my entire career in games journalism, so I have a very soft spot for it in my heart. Even though we are in 2025 now, it seems Commodore news is coming thick and fast and will only develop further in the coming months.

If you want to get into the world of Amiga emulation with minimum fuss, there is also a new version of Cloanto’s Amiga Forever software that uses the new WinUAE update.

WinUAE 6 – highlights

You can read the full changelog for WinUAE 6 right here, but we have picked out a few tasty paragraphs that caught our attention.

• Custom chipset emulation (Agnus/Alice and Denise/Lisa) almost completely rewritten. Almost every part of chipset emulation is now internally cycle accurate.
• Custom chipset Denise/Lisa emulation is now running in separate thread for large performance increase in accurate emulation modes compared to previous versions.
• Default configuration is now cycle-exact A500. Previously default was approximate A500.
• CD32 CD reads should be more real optical drive friendly, when CD32 is reading data sequentially (playing CD streaming animation or video), host side CD sector reads are now also sequential, without periodically re-reading part of previously read sectors.