It was the first brick towards the modern Amiga emulation. The UAE has been classified as a freeware under the GNU General Public License since its first debut.
The name originally meant Unix Amiga Emulator, but later became Universal Amiga Emulator. In this specific case, the one related to the glorious Amiga, the first example of an emulator was UAE in 1996 by Berndt Schmidt. With a deep knowledge of the hardware to be replicated via software, and with an unquestionable love for retrocomputers and backseaters, emulators have been created for almost all current operating systems. With the unstoppable technological advances in the personal computers and game consoles sector, which are increasingly performing, many programmers have dedicated themselves to the emulation, on these modern machines, of the oldest platforms. Dear friends of Retrocommodore, in this article we will talk about the emulation of Amiga.
