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For those who don't know;
Amikit is a nice wrapper around UAE (in particular WinUAE) with a nice desktop install with all the modern bits of the AmigaOS tucked inside.
So I was quite thrilled when I saw that they had finally released a Linux version this month. Saddened by the fact that since 8.5 they decided to go commercial. But I'd used it for years so decided to pay for it because it finally supported Linux.
To my horror, I opened up the zip file (who distributes software for Linux in a Zip??) and discovered 4 files...
AmiKit.pdf
AmiKitX-Linux.msi
POL_install_AmiKitX
README.md
Yup, that's right. The 'Linux' version is wrapped up in an MSI file, with a Play On Linux configuration file. It's bad enough that to run it you need ROM files from Amiga Forever (which also works flawlessly in Wine last time I tried it.), but to have it not even be remotely native... and the worse part is, they don't sell it like Steam, they sell it as a separate Linux, Mac, Windows version. At least the Mac version is a dmg file...
So if they were going to just package up the Windows version with a Linux / wine wrapper, why even have a separate option to buy the Windows version? Granted, I can get all of this for free, and mostly thought of it as a donation, but if I'm going to pay for something outside of it being a straight donation, I think they should have been more straight forward as to what I was going to get!
What do other's think?
Does it work?
Do they support it?
If no to either, I wouldn't support it.
Wine isn't always a bad thing.
If yes, they tell you at their store-page that it runs with PlayOnLinux:
Thinking about it, is wine case-sensitive?
FS-UAE (which I use personally) compares the checksum (SHA-1) of the content, not the name of the ROM: https://fs-uae.net/docs/kickstarts