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Last month I posted a picture of a piece of needlework art in my dad's house, and remarked on its similarity to Amiga-era pixel art: https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/113777224091786351
I said in that post that it would be cool to digitise it back to a paletted image suitable for actually loading into Deluxe Paint. I didn't get round to doing it … but someone else did! https://kaberett.dreamwidth.org/ put in a *lot* of effort (more than I would have dreamed of asking for) and sent me a PNG.
I thought the only reasonable thing to do with that was to convert it back to IFF ILBM, transfer it on to an Amiga floppy image, and load it in _actual_ Deluxe Paint. Tada!
But even given a starting PNG, getting it into DPaint was a challenge. (1/8)
My Amiga emulator of choice is FS-UAE, which comes with a reasonably convenient GUI configuration editor and launcher. Or rather, it _did_. Since I last tried to use it, I've upgraded Ubuntu at least once, and now most of the controls are missing, the remaining ones are piled on top of each other, and if you run it from a terminal you get Python error tracebacks.
But the most important control is still there: the one that lets you double-click one of your saved configurations. And the configurations themselves live in text files, so I can still edit them even though the rest of the GUI is broken. (2/8)
@simontatham I switched from FS-UAE to Amiberry, it has a much better GUI, much like WinUAE. And it's actively being worked on.
@Turrican thank you for the recommendation! It carries extra weight coming from someone with your username, because that suggests it will at least be able to run one of my favourite games :-)
@simontatham Yeah, I remember having read somewhere a long time ago that the Turrican games are good benchmarking apps for Amiga emulators! That's certainly true! 
And the Turrican games run just fine on Amiberry. BTW: nice read, your ILBM experiment!