The Amiga is a family of personal computers. It’s the last truly great gaming home computer before the dominance of the PC and the 32-bit games consoles.
Read more
Category: Emulators
Emulate the BBC Micro home computer with Linux
The BBC Microcomputer System was a series of microcomputers designed and built by the Acorn Computer company.
Read more
Emulate the Commodore 64 home computer with Linux
The Commodore 64 (C64) is an 8-bit home computer released in 1982. The $595 (£399) device took its name from its US maker, Commodore International, and the fact it had 64K of RAM.
Read more
Emulate the Atari ST home computer with Linux
The Atari ST was a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation. We recommend open source emulators for the Atari ST.
Read more
Emulate the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer with Linux
The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. The name highlighted the machine’s color capabilities.
Read more
Emulate the Amstrad CPC home computer with Linux
This series looks at emulating home computers. This article looks at emulating the Amstrad CPC range.
Read more
Emulate the Sinclair ZX81 home computer with Linux
This series looks at emulating home computers. We start the series looking at the ZX81, a home computer produced by Sinclair Research from 1981.
Read more
7 Best Free Linux Mega Drive Emulators
The Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) was a leading 16-bit video game console system. The console was developed by Sega Corporation in 1988. Sega was unable to obtain trademark rights in North America, and it was released in that market under the name of Sega Genesis.
Read more
Genesis Plus GX – open-source Sega 8/16 bit emulator focused on accuracy and portability
Genesis Plus GX is a Sega multi-system emulator originally for the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii.
Read more
Experience Home Computers that Missed the Big Time
Home computers were a class of personal computer which reached the market in the late 1970s, and became immensely popular in the following decade, selling many millions of units. The market was dominated for many years by a small number of 8-bit machines, in particular the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Acorn BBC Micro.
Read more
USP – portable ZX Spectrum emulator
Unreal Speccy Portable (USP) is an open source portable ZX Spectrum emulator. It runs under many operating systems.
Read more
Xcpc – open source Amstrad home computer emulator
Xcpc is a portable Amstrad CPC464/CPC664/CPC6128 emulator. This software is partially based on Marat Fayzullin’s Z80 emulator.
Read more
cpc4x – Amstrad CPC home computer emulator
cpc4x is an Amstrad CPC emulator. It can be used either in a console, or in X11. cpc4x emulates most of the CPC hardware.
Read more
z81 – Sinclair ZX81 (aka TS1000) emulator
z81 is a Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator with versions for X and the Linux console. It uses svgalib. It supports most programs and games.
Read more
Spectemu – emulator of the original 48k ZX Spectrum
Spectemu emulates the 48k ZX Spectrum, which uses the Z80 microprocessor. It emulates the Z80 processor as well as the 48k Spectrum’s other hardware.
Read more
Steem – Atari STE emulator
Steem is an Atari STE emulator. It runs almost every ST program ever made without any problems. Closed source freeware.
Read more
UAE – UAE Amiga Emulator
UAE is a computer emulator which emulates the hardware of the Commodore Amiga range of computers.
Read more
E-UAE – ubiquitous Amiga emulator
E-UAE is an Amiga emulator. A Commodore Amiga is a 16/32 bit computer system based on the Motorola 680×0 CPU and a few specially designed custom chips.
Read more
21 of the Best Free Linux Home Computer Emulators
Emulation refers to the duplication of functions of one system using a different system.
Read more
21 of the Best Free Linux Video Console Emulators
This article focuses on selecting the best software which enables a Linux machine to emulate classic video consoles, such as the GameBoy, Nintendo 64, Megadrive, PlayStation 1 & 2, and many others. Please be aware that although all of the software featured in this article is free to download, some of the emulators are not open source.
Read more