Handy (Amiga port by Amigan Software)

Handy is an Atari Lynx emulator. It is quite compatible and most ROMs should work flawlessly.

The Amiga elements have been backported from OS4.0 to OS3.0, also replacing the 0.80 emulation core with the 0.95 core and adding features.

The improvements in this version (as compared to the OS4.0 version) include:

based on 0.95 core, not 0.80 core
you can play with a joystick
you can use an ASL requester to choose which game to play
you can run it from Workbench, including support for ToolTypes
you can change games without quitting, by pressing F1
you can reset the Lynx by pressing F3
support for ZIPped games
support for loading and saving of LSS2 and LSS3 (snapshot) files
no BIOS ROM required
source code
support for loading and saving of ALR (gameplay recording) files
turbo speed on/off toggle
autofire on/off toggles
stack checking at startup

Some of these features (eg. LSS2 saving, ALR support) are unique to the Amiga version of Handy 0.95.

AHI sound is available but is turned off by default for speed (SOUND to turn it on). Keyboard, joystick (2-button joysticks are best) and CD³² joypad (JOYPAD) are supported for input.

The emulator only runs in its own screen. Most features of the Windows version are not available.

You will need a very fast Amiga to achieve adequate performance. You can run it either in a 320-pixel wide AGA screen, or in an 8-bitplane (256 colour) CyberGraphX (or Picasso96 emulating CyberGraphX) screen. There is optional AHI sound.

Maybe you could run some patches such as BlazeWCP or FBlit to increase the speed. These have not been tested with Handy but should help performance.

Features:

save screenshots
optional AHI sound
keyboard, joystick and CD³² joypad support
support for ZIPped games
source code
load/save snapshots
gameplay recording/playback
turbo speed on/off
autofire on/off

Requires: 68040+, OS3.0+, AGA/CGX, 16Mb RAM.
Recommended: OS4/MorphOS, AHI, CGX.

- Taken from the Handy (Amiga port by Amigan Software) homepage and/or documentation
- Some excerpts edited for grammar, length, and clarity

Filename	Version	Author*	Size	Updated				Help Mouse over any icon below for a short description of what each item means.
`Handy095.lha`	0.95	James Jacobs	268.954 kb	04/24/2009	.lha File An LHA archive contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce file size and then appended with the .lha extension. This data compression and archive format was originally created in 1988 by... click for more	AmigaOS AmigaOS is an operating system developed for Amiga Corporation's family of personal computers including the CD32, CDTV, A500, A500+, A600, A1000, A1200, A1500, A2000, A2500, A3000, A3000T, A3000UX, A4000,... click for more	Checksum The following are the Md5 and SHA1 hashes of this file. MD5: `02ed85e58235f50afc736398cb55a28e` SHA1: `ea816aba8ec6a87c30eb7b9919ff47281ece892f`	Download Click here to download your file. Please be patient as it may take 3-5 seconds to initiate the file transfer.

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Posted by: Jay May, 13, 2009, 01:03:20 pm

This is James Jacobs`s port of Handy to the Amiga platform. It has great compatibility and runs at or near full speed. It`s one of two great choices for Atari Lynx emulation on the Amiga platform. Bazzie Bizzle.com recommends trying this port and the one by Mathias Roslund. Both are great emulators, just pick your favorite.

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