never used an amiga but i bet the moment i did i would become an Amiga Person

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never used an amiga but i bet the moment i did i would become an Amiga Person
if you want I have now done the oddly large amount of research required to learn how to use an amiga so I can point people at good starting points
oooh yeah are there any good emulators? or if u have like, a free amiga 500 i'll take one of those
god I wish I had any kind of cool/in-demand retro hardware, the only things I have are this toshiba satellite 430CDS and a PS/2 model 35
but yeah as far as emulation, there's the legit route and the unlegit but free route
legit, you can buy Amiga Forever from Cloanto (https://www.amigaforever.com), which is the inheritor of all the commodore amiga software IP rights
free, amiga forever is built around an open source amiga emulator called "WinUAE" (https://www.winuae.net/download/), and you can find copies of the "Kickstarts" (boot ROMs) and "Workbench" (operating system) for the amiga model of your choice at various internet archives
either way there's a bunch of upgrades + helpful utilities bundled up into installers like ClassicWB (http://classicwb.abime.net) and HstWB (https://hstwb.firstrealize.com/) which you can apply to a copy of the system software, however you end up getting it
you can also find a bunch of shareware/abandonware games and demos by googling for "WHDLoad packs", someone called Retroplay makes a set of well-regarded packs
there's also a few different interesting hardware emulation possibilities; there are prepackaged raspberry pi linux distributions for emulating amigas, as well as a MiSTer core that you can hook up to an emulated1 Roland MT-32, and a couple different lines of community-made FPGA "accelerators" for old amiga hardware which are basically just integrated system replacements
maybe real too? I haven't looked into it