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Emulation and virtual machines, done primarily for general Software and for Games.

See also:

• Oldschool games
• Legacy software

• Virtualization for an entire contemporary platform.

Various:

• chroot

  • For entering into a Linux environment from within Linux.
• Emulation on the Sharp Zaurus SL-C1000 -- Various emulation programs specific to the Zaurus SL-C1000
• Portable computing

• Wine

  • For Windows software under Linux.

Platform-specific emulation notes:

• Amiga
• Atari
• Commodore 64 > Commodore 64 emulation

• DOS

Stuff ∞

• https://rbelmont.mameworld.info/

Arcade and Console Emulation ∞

/tag/game-consoles+emulators

• Sega Genesis
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System

• raine

  • Emulates some M68000 and M68020 arcade games and is mainly focused on Taito and Jaleco games hardware.

• mess/xmess

  • Multi Emulator Super System (M.E.S.S.)
  • A computer and console emulator: it includes a Z80, 6502, 68000 and lastly I86 uP emulators.
• Virtual GameBoy Emulator

• Dolphin

  • Gamecube and Wii emulator

Other ∞

• PearPC

  • An architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems.

• BeebEm for UNIX

  • Acorn BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
  • Probably not stable yet, as it was recently ported, but it might have hope.
  • See also The BBC Micro and Electron games archive
• TI Calculator DOS Utilities
• TRS-80 Disk DOS Software Page (archive.org)

• ScummVM

  • http://kingofgng.com/eng/topics/emulation-retrogaming/

• Win4Lin

  • NeTraverse and Mandrakesoft announced a strategic partnership. Interesting.

• Microsoft Virtual PC

  • This replaces Connectix Virtual PC for Windows 5.2

• pcemu

  • Software-only 8086 PC emulator for X.
  • 2002-03 -- It's a stillborn fork.

• www.emu8086.com

  • For-pay.
  • Amazing for learning assembly, since you can do cool stuff like the c64 cartridges allowed.

• emu486

  • Meant for stepping through a program, for debugging.

ROMs and games ∞

• https://web.archive.org/*/www.rom-world.com

  • https://web.archive.org/*/www.rom-world.com/toproms.php
• http://www.stairwaytohell.com/ The BBC Micro and Electron Games Archive
• http://www.lindqvist.it/retired/uae/ Classics for UAE (retired in 2003, but should still have some games to check out) Also lists demos and music.
• ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/c64/Scene/
• ftp://arnold.c64.org/pub/games/
• http://www.gamebase64.com/
• https://web.archive.org/*/cadaver.homeftp.net/games.htm Covert BitOps C64 page (games)

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050405092436/http://www.snes.it.tt:80/

Resources ∞

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130722144319/http://www.consolemul.com:80/ (french)
• https://web.archive.org/*/www.emuunlim.com/
• http://www.emuboards.com/

• https://www.ngemu.com/

  • For next-gen emulation (more recent systems)

• http://www.scale2x.it/

  • lists games that support it. Good leads to find quality projects.

• https://web.archive.org/*/www.defacto2.net/portal.cfm?category=Emulation&sort=name

  • links
• http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.tosec.info/

• http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources.html

  • has hacked emulators for making speedruns and movies in general
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110623093437/http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Emulators/
• https://www.cascade64.de/ Cascade C64/Amiga
• http://amiga.nvg.org/warlock/ Realm of the Warlock
• http://amiga.nvg.org/ Amiga @ NVG

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound VDMSound ^[ 1 ] was ntvdm.cjb.net

  • Legacy hardware emulator for Windows. May be useful for emulating certain sound cards..
  • Provides sound support to DOS boxes under Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000
  • VDMSound Forum ^[ 2 ] was vogons.zetafleet.com/viewforum.php?f=16

• http://tasvideos.org/

  • tool-assisted console gameplay movies
• http://tasvideos.org/Arc.html TASVideos -- Tool-assisted console game movies
• www.emulationzone.org
• https://www.zophar.net/

• http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorResources.html ^[ 3 ] was http://tasvideos.org/EmulatorHomepages.html ^[ 4 ] was http://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesvideos/EmulatorHomepages.html

  • nice, and includes hacked emulators for making speedruns and movies in general.

Unsorted ∞

• http://java-emu.emuunlim.com/projects.html

  • Java ports and emulation. Wow!

• Scale2x

  • Making bitmaps bigger and actually improving quality!! used in emulators! OMFG!

Last updated 2020-11-14 at 12:55:49