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Amiga Paula
1985
Commodore's Amiga custom chip handling four-channel sampled sound, floppy disk I/O and interrupts from 1985 onward.
Machines
Operating systems
Emulators
| Emulator | Type | License | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
| AmiKit | downloadable | Freeware | Website ↗ |
| Amiberry | downloadable | GPL-3.0 | Website ↗ |
| Amiga Forever | downloadable | Commercial | Website ↗ |
| Denise | downloadable | Freeware | Website ↗ |
| E-UAE | downloadable | GPL-2.0 | Website ↗ |
| PUAE | downloadable | GPL-2.0 | Website ↗ |
| UAE | downloadable | GPL-2.0 | Website ↗ |
| WinFellow | downloadable | GPL-2.0 | Website ↗ |
| vAmiga | downloadable | GPL-3.0 | Website ↗ |
| vAmigaWeb | online | GPL-3.0 | Website ↗ |
Reference & documentation
External technical references for programming Amiga Paula and for writing emulators.
| Resource | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AmigaWiki: Paula 8364 ↗ | Datasheet | Chip overview, packages, pinout image, audio specs |
| Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: Floppy Disk Controller (Ch. 8) ↗ | Format | Paula MFM disk DMA: DSKLEN, ADKCON, DSKSYNC |
| Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: Interrupts (Ch. 7) ↗ | Interrupt list | INTENA/INTREQ bits and Paula interrupt levels |
| Amiga HRM: Register Summary (Address Order) ↗ | Memory map | Every DFF000 custom register by address, chip, R/W |
| Aminet: Amiga custom chip pinouts archive ↗ | Pinout | Includes 8362 Denise DIP pinout image |
| Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: Audio Hardware (Ch. 5) ↗ | Programming | Canonical Paula audio: channels, period, volume, DMA, modulation |
| Amiga Machine Code Letter VIII: Audio ↗ | Programming | Annotated assembly PCM playback via Paula registers |
| Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: Register Summary (Alphabetical) ↗ | Reference | Bit-level definitions of every Paula/custom-chip register |
| WinUAE audio.cpp (Paula audio emulation) ↗ | Source | Reference-accurate Paula audio state machine and DMA |
| amiga_replacement_project: Paula.v ↗ | Source | Clean Verilog reimplementation of the Paula chip |