A: Yes, however the Windows version of Amiga Forever
normally places some information in the system registry which is
used by the upgrade installer for Windows and by Software Director to locate the installation.
If you manually installed the files of a cross-platform version
of Amiga Forever on a Windows system, you need to also add at
least the path information in the registry, so that the installer
can find it. You will then also be asked by the installer to
provide the license key.
Similarly, if you installed the Windows version of Amiga
Forever by manually copying it from a backup (or from the Amiga
Forever CD-ROM, but without using the installer), the installation
will not be detected if the registry data is missing or incorrect.
This article explains how to restore this information.
Warning - Please read the following article
before proceeding:
By default, the Windows version of Amiga Forever is installed
in "C:\Program Files\Cloanto\Amiga Forever". This is the path
information which is normally written to the system registry in
the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cloanto\Amiga Forever\#.#\Path"
string value, where "#.#" is the major version number (e.g.
"1.0", "2.0", "3.0", "4.0",
"5.0", "6.0" or "2005.0", the last digit is always "0").
In all versions of Amiga Forever the "Amiga Forever"
directory contains subdirectories named "Documentation",
"Emulation", etc. While you are free to change the location of
the "Amiga Forever" installation directory, you should not
modify the structure of the directories and files contained in
it, or else the upgrade may not work.
To create the Path string in the system registry launch
Registry Editor,
select "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE", right-click it and select
New Key to create the keys "Cloanto" and "Amiga Forever" (inside
"Cloanto"), if they are not already present. Then do the same to
create a key named after the version of the cross-platform
edition of Amiga Forever which is installed. Then
click "2005.0" (or other version key), select New String Value and
name the string value "Path". Double-click it and set the value
data to "C:\Program Files\Cloanto\Amiga Forever", or whatever
your installation path is.
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