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RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]
86Box is an IBM PC emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac based on PCem that specializes in running old operating systems and software that are designed for IBM PC compatibles. Originally forked from PCem, it later added support for other IBM PC compatible computers as well.
Emulator Latest version Released Guest emulation capabilities Host Operating System License Ersatz-11: 7.1 August 7, 2015: DEC PDP-11: DOS, Windows, Linux: Shareware: ts10: 021004 October 4, 2002: DEC PDP-10, DEC PDP-11, DEC VAX: Unix, Linux: GPL: SIMH: 3.9-0 May 3, 2012: Various very old computers Cross-platform: Open source: Charon TB: 4.0 ...
MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. [1]
DOSBox is a free and open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games. [5] It was first released in 2002, when DOS technology was becoming obsolete. Its adoption for running DOS games is widespread, with it being used in commercial re-releases of those games as well.
Bochs (pronounced "box") is a portable IA-32 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator and debugger mostly written in C++ and distributed as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License. It supports emulation of the processor(s) (including protected mode ), memory, disks, display, Ethernet , BIOS and common hardware peripherals of PCs .
Kali is an IPX network emulator for DOS and Windows, enabling legacy multiplayer games to work over a modern TCP/IP network such as the Internet. Later versions of the software also functioned as a server browser for games that natively supported TCP/IP. Versions were also created for OS2 and Mac, but neither version was well polished.
Video game console emulators are programs that allow a personal computer or video game console to emulate another video game console. They are most often used to play older 1980s to 2000s-era video games on modern personal computers and more contemporary video game consoles.