New features* in Amiga Forever 8 "R3":

Accurate and reconfigurable onscreen keyboards, with multi-touch support and custom mapping and shortcut options

New fullscreen experience: change floppy disks, pause, resume, save, etc. with the mouse, keyboard or game controller without having to switch back to window mode

Rewritten and expanded game controller, keyboard and player shortcut customization dialogs (under Tools/Options/Input), with new layout and features for both shared and custom profiles

Direct support for additional types of game controllers

Hard disk imaging (convert disks to images and vice versa) and support for direct-attached disks (to more easily share media between Classic Amiga and emulation systems)

Amiga-like pervasive drag-and-drop support: media files, screenshots, audio files, and documentation files can be added to a title, and vice versa

Setup Wizard helps set up common configuration and privacy options

Integrated Changelog feature (in Help/About and Updates Available dialogs)

Discord status updates

Player and RP9 Toolbox support .uae import and conversion

New Developer menu options

Support for multiple-monitor and high-DPI features introduced in Windows 10 versions 1709, 1809 and 1903

When 8-bit systems are enabled (e.g. PET/CBM and C64 systems): virtual mouse option (move text cursor with mouse)

Numerous other new features and refinements (performance, clipboard, title editor, AROS updates, Build Image, enhanced File Explorer integration, new Facebook Graph API, etc.)

Release Announcement, R2 Update, Detailed Changelog

Previously introduced in Amiga Forever 7:

New playlists, with ability to add custom content folders and to change the location of built-in Amiga Files

Option to autostart PC into favorite Amiga configuration (or CBM 8-bit, if C64 Forever is installed too)

Titles can be run from Windows File Explorer without opening the main Amiga Forever player, adding to previous playerless preview and editing capabilities

Enhanced PowerPC emulation features

General and title-specific game controller personalization, including support for Xbox, X-Arcade and I-PAC controllers, virtual buttons and arbitrary keyboard layouts

Additional input features: left-handed support, configurable autofire (also with separate fire) and merging of multiple game controllers and keyboard layouts into single emulated hardware

All systems support "Type Clipboard" and automatic Unicode-aware mapping of typed and pasted text, also when the PC and emulated Amiga keyboard layouts do not match

New and improved media features: pervasive RDB disk support, shared drives, deployable large disk images, etc.

Massively improved authoring and playback capabilities, as part of a project that reached more than 500,000 lines of code (not counting open source modules, in which we are active contributors as well)

Update checks are now over HTTPS (TLS) and are combined with digital signature verifications for enhanced integrity, confidentiality and security

Improved security sandbox

Numerous other new features and refinements (performance, audio, WHDLoad and AROS updates, Rescan, Build Image, dynamic warning triangles, new Facebook Graph API, visualization of RP9 manifest changes, etc.)

Release Announcement

Previously introduced in Amiga Forever 2016:

New user interface with gorgeous high-DPI display features ("retina"/4K density and beyond, multi-monitor)

Ability to merge Amiga and 8-bit CBM content in single player (if both Amiga Forever and C64 Forever are installed)

PowerPC emulation support, including 1+ GB of RAM, PCI bridge, preset devices with native OS 4.1 FE driver support, and more

A wealth of new content configuration and authoring features (right-click a title and select Edit)

Enhanced Amiga serial port, MIDI and printer support

New Amiga devices for storage, graphics, sound and networking

New Shared folder to exchange data between different Amiga configurations and the host system

New AROS, ROMs and more

Release Announcement

Previously introduced in Amiga Forever 2014:

Previously introduced in Amiga Forever 2012:

Title Editor (create and edit any configuration, for playback on the local system or elsewhere)

Improved player interface with access to RP9 extra content, enhanced image preview, multiple web links (including external content sites), audio files, etc.

New playback window controls to configure and display the status of each input port

Support for new systems, including AROS and Walker prototype

New MIDI, fullscreen scaling, mouse and other settings in Tools/Options

Player is now based on new, faster RetroPlatform 3.0 code base

The Plus Edition ISO image is now a DVD instead of a CD

The Premium Edition (now on 3 DVDs) features an exclusive Dave Haynie interview video both as standard DVD video and HD-quality Windows Media file

The Gallery section features a new RJ Mical interview

More...

Previously introduced in Amiga Forever 2011:

Multiple snapshots (saved states) per game

Faster loading times (up to 10+ times faster than Amiga Forever 2010 on a system with 512 MB RAM)

More than 100 usability improvements for a more refined and productive experience

New user interface features to more easily swap disks, insert blank disks, grab screens, apply existing screenshots, etc.

Enhanced integrated Workbench 1.3 and 3.X environments (new configuration settings, easy printing, etc.)

New preset Amiga configurations, including CDTV and CD³² (seamlessly work with RP9 files, ISO/BIN/CUE images, and physical CD media)

Extended RP9 format to support CD images (CDTV and CD³² content), embedded configuration tags and third-party editors

Enhanced RetroPlatform Library (to recognize and configure games, etc.) with live updates

Enhanced Export to Device functionality to save games to SD card, etc.

Now Playing data for use by Skype, Messenger, Twitter and similar plugins

New Gallery content

New system ROMs (e.g. some versions that were unique to the Amiga 600 and Amiga 3000)

Vastly improved, multithreaded content caching (no more "Building cache" or "Please wait" messages)

Officially tested to comply with "Compatible with Windows 7" requirements, with full support for Windows Vista and Windows 7, both x86 and x64 (possibly still the first and only Windows software with custom-shaped glass-enabled skin)

More...

Additional new and improved features that were already included in part in Amiga Forever 2009:

All included games and demoscene productions are now in RP9 format (uses less disk space and makes it very easy to add or remove files)

RP9 Toolbox to scan for and import/export content

Seamless, one-click integration of AmiKit and AmigaSYS Amiga OS add-ons lets you experience a broader variety of perspectives

New system ROMs (e.g. 0.7 Kickstart required to run the software used by Andy Warhol in the 1985 Launch of Amiga demo, Amiga 1000, A590 and A4091 boot ROMs, etc.)

Improved documentation and help (new Tip of The Day balloon, new documentation in Windows Help format)

Emphasis on usability: interface and settings are improved, but remain consistent with the previous 2009 version and with C64 Forever (also see Tips for Upgraders)

Content more than quadrupled (disk images are now compressed in the new RP9 format, and also used directly by the installer)

New "Amiga Forever Game Pack I" (more than 50 games)

More than 100 beautiful demoscene productions

New Gallery items: original Tripos article, "top secret" Amiga-Atari documents, and much more

New system HDFs: complete Amiga OS 1.3, 2.1 and 3.1 installations with only a minimum of add-ons (e.g. Y2K fixes, RTG update for 3.1), but otherwise identical to the original (including file attributes as intended by Commodore, which were lost in later distributions)

New ADFs (1.3 Extras, complete 3.1 install set, etc.)

Preinstalled WHDLoad "kickemu" support

New KX Light, bootable from CD and with HD installation option (now featuring live updates) and extended hardware support

Additional details about the player for Windows, which was also greatly improved in the new 2009 version:

Revolutionary new and intuitive player interface for Windows, for easy selection and playback of games and other content

Professional skin design with familiar "media player" interface

Buttons and other visual controls provide intuitive access to content and emulation features (pause, resume, disk change, reboot, joystick vs. keyboard selection, window size selection, full screen, Amiga screen capture, etc.)

The new Amiga Forever player makes it possible to double-click or drag-and-drop downloaded disk images (e.g. RP9, ADF, ADZ, etc.) to play them, using heuristic content analysis to preset a suitable Amiga hardware configuration

The player has built-in support for dual screens (can use secondary display for fullscreen Amiga) and multiple emulation sessions

Rather than closing an emulation session, it is possible to save its state, for example to resume a game at a later time (the session is up and running again in an instant)

It is also possible to undo the changes from the last session and revert to a previous saved state

Full undo of RP9, ADF, ADZ, HDF and HDZ disk writes (disk changes may be committed or discarded when exiting the emulation)

Windowed mode visualizes games and demoscene productions as they were meant to be displayed, without large unused overscan areas

Helpful visualization of additional details (Amiga mouse options, device status with green/red read/write LEDs, context-specific help tips, Tip of the Day balloons, etc.)

Integrated video playback (requires MPEG-2 support by the operating system, otherwise the Amiga Forever videos can be read by any DVD player)

* May indicate Plus Edition and Premium Edition Features. The Express Edition and Value Edition may be limited to configurations that use certain 1.x ROMs, and include fewer games and demoscene productions out of the box. Gallery items and KX Light support are included only in the Plus and Premium Edition. Video content is included only in the Premium Edition.

Features describing the "player" refer to the Windows version. Plus Edition and Premium Edition Amiga content is also usable on other platforms, with additional software (both included and available for download elsewhere).