Accurate Amiga Emulation
FS-UAE integrates the most accurate Amiga emulation code available from WinUAE. FS-UAE emulates A500, A500+, A600, A1200, A1000, A3000 and A4000 models, but you can tweak the hardware configuration and create customized Amigas.
On-Screen GUI With Gamepad Control
FS-UAE is fully controllable with a gamepad - you can easily swap floppies and load save states through the on-screen GUI. In addition to being great on your personal computer, FS-UAE is also well suited to be started from an emulator frontend running on a HTPC.
Configuration GUI
FS-UAE includes an easy-to-use graphical configuration program which allows you to enjoy FS-UAE and Amiga emulation without writing configuration files. Using this program is optional, and if you are a minimalist, you can instead use just FS-UAE alone.
Available for Multiple Operating Systems
FS-UAE works on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Apart from a few small differences, the feature set is the same on all platforms. The same configurations, floppy images and hard drives can be shared between multiple systems.
Solid Joystick and Gamepad Support
Many joysticks and gamepads are recognized out of the box without any configuration, with correct setup both for Amiga and CD32. Support for additional models can be configured with the joystick configuration tool bundled with FS-UAE Launcher.
Video Synchronization
Synchronize to your 50 Hz monitor (for PAL Amiga emulation) or 60 Hz monitor (for NTSC Amiga emulation) for perfect scrolling in games without the micro-stuttering which will otherwise occur. Available on all supported operating systems.
Scaling and Video Options
OpenGL is used for video output, with many options to tweak how the Amiga display is present. The Amiga display is streched to your screen by default, but you can enable aspect correction, zoom in or out, enable shaders for advanced effects, and use custom themes.
OpenRetro Game Database
Integration with the OpenRetro Game Database allows FS-UAE to scan your Amiga game files and automatically create entries (with covers and screenshots) for recognized ADF, IPF CD, and WHDLoad games. No manual configuration is needed.
Emulate High-End Amigas
FS-UAE supports emulating an Amiga 4000 with an CPU as fast as your system can emulate it. Picasso96 drivers can be used with the built-in UAEgfx card to display Workbench in high resolutions and with up to 16.7 million colors, and the built-in bsdsocket.library means that the Amiga will have access to the Internet.
Cross-Platform Online Play
A unique feature is support for cross-platform online play. You can now play Amiga games against (or with) friends over the Internet. The online play feature is designed in a way which avoids de-synchronization issues.
Available in Multiple Languages
Both FS-UAE and FS-UAE Launcher are translated into several languages. The currently supported languages are French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, and Serbian. -In addition to English, which is the default language.
Flexible Screenshot Support
When you take a screenshot in FS-UAE, by default you get three different images saved to your screenshots folder. One is the real screenshot (the scaled graphics you see on screen), but FS-UAE also saves a 1:1 pixel image of the entire Amiga video output, and also an 1:1 image which is cropped to what you see on screen.
Built-In Support for WHDLoad
If you have archived WHDLoad games in .zip or .lha, you can launch most of them by simply adding the archive as a HD. FS-UAE Launcher will recognize that it is a WHDLoad game, and automatically configure an "internal HD" to boot the game for you.
Open Source Software
FS-UAE is free software and is licensed under GPLv2 (libraries are licensed under LGPL or other open source licenses). Sources are available on the download page, and parts of the FS-UAE project (including the emulator itself) have public git repositories.
Community Support
There is a support forum for FS-UAE on the English Amiga Board with many active registered users. If you are stuck, you'll almost certainly get an answer to your questions there. You can also leave comments on fs-uae.net is you rather want that.
Online Documentation
A great deal of documentation about how to use and configure FS-UAE is available on fs-uae.net.
PPC Accelerator Support
Emulation of the CyberStorm PPC (and Blizzard PPC) means that you can run AmigaOS 4.1 on FS-UAE!