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File Managers

VFU File Manager – VF File Manager for UNIX

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

VFU is a console (text mode) file manager for UNIX/Linux.VFU covers all file managing needs and offers a large set of behaviour options.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

bsnes – standalone SNES emulator using the higan SNES core

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

bsnes is a Super Nintendo / Super Famicom emulator. The emulator concentrates on performance, features, and ease of use.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Snes9x – freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Snes9x is a portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

ZSNES – free Super Nintendo emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

ZSNES is an emulator of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It can run most of the SNES games at full speed with sound and special graphic filters.

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Video-Emulators

Mesen – high-accuracy NES and Famicom emulator and NSF player

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mesen is a cross-platform NES/Famicom emulator for Windows and Linux.

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Video-Emulators

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) – portable NES/Famicom emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Nestopia UE (Undead Edition) is an NES/Famicom emulator. It’s a fork of the original source code, with enhancements from members of the emulation community.

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higan – Nintendo multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

higan emulates a number of classic video-game consoles of the 1980s and 1990s, allowing you to play classic games on a modern general-purpose computer.

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Dolphin – GameCube and Wii emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii.

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DeSmuME – Nintendo DS emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator that aims to be portable. It can be run from the command line directly or as a graphical program.

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Citra – work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Citra is a work-in-progress Nintendo 3DS emulator started in early 2014. It runs under Windows and Linux.

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Video-Emulators

PCSX2 – PlayStation 2 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

PCSX2 is an open source PlayStation 2 emulator.The emulator contains highly optimized dynamic translators for the PS2’s MIPS and VU chips.

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Video-Emulators

RPCS3 – free and open source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

RPCS3 is an experimental open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger. About 35% of PS3 game are playable with the emulator.

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Video-Emulators

PPSSPP – free and open source PSP emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

PPSSPP is a fast and portable PSP emulator released under an open source license. PPSSPP simulates the BIOS and the internal OS.

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Video-Emulators

Reicast – Sega Dreamcast emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Reicast is a multi-platform Sega Dreamcast emulator. It’s an app that allows you to play your Dreamcast games on your computer or Android phone.

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Video-Emulators

Stella – Multi-platform Atari 2600 Video Computer System

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Stella allows you to enjoy all of your favorite Atari 2600 games once again by emulating the 2600’s hardware with software.

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Video-Emulators

RetroArch – front-end for emulators, game engines, video games, media players, and more

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players. It supports a huge range of emulators.

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Video-Emulators

Mednafen – multi-system emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Mednafen is a portable, utilizing OpenGL and SDL, argument (command-line)-driven multi-system emulator with many advanced features.

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Retro

Atari800 – Atari 8-bit computer systems and 5200 game console emulator

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator with various extensions (320kB RAM, stereo sound and more).

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Retro

Caprice32 – Amstrad CPC emulator

November 12, 2023 Luke Baker Emulators, Games

Caprice32 is a software emulator of the Amstrad CPC 8bit home computer series running on Linux and Windows.

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Retro

MAME – recreates the hardware of arcade game systems in software

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

MAME is an emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.

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