Rui CarmoEmulation and hardware virtualization software of various descriptions, most of them obsolete by now:
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| 8-bit | 2025 | MCUME | a multi-system emulator for microcontrollers |
| chips-test | a collection of Tiny Emus for 8-bit systems |
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| Amiga | 2008 | MaxUAE | Somewhat dead, with only Power PC binaries available. |
| UAE | Cross-platform Amiga emulator |
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| 2021 | amiberry | optimized for ARM cpus |
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| Arcade | 2010 | Open Emu | A modular emulator that can be used as a Quartz Composer plug-in |
| 2011 | Emulaunch | A multi-emulator front-end suitable for use on a TV |
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| 2022 | Provenance | an iOS and tvOS multi-emulator frontend |
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| C64 | 2019 | bmc64 | a “bare metal” C64 emulator for the Raspberry Pi |
| DEC | 2024 | DECstation2040 | A RP2040 based DECstation emulator (the workstations I used in college) |
| Emulation | 86Box | a low level x86 emulator for running older operating systems and software. |
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| Gameboy | 2008 | Boycott Advance | GBA emulator. Universal binary. |
| Gaming | KiGB | Gameboy/Gameboy colour emulator. |
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| Generic x86 | QEMU | Q |
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| Virtual PC | Used to be the best option for running Windows on Power PC |
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| 2010 | DOSBox | Boxer |
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| Graphics | 2025 | retroarch-shaders | a collection of finetuned shaders to replicate CRT looks on Retroarch |
| IBM PC | 2023 | martypc | a cycle-accurate IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust |
| 2025 | Dosbian | a lightweight distribution for Raspberry Pi that boots directly into DOSBox |
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| felix86 | a low-level x86 emulator for RISC-V platforms |
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| Evertop | an ultra low power, ultra long battery solar PC |
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| Faux86 | designed to be run ‘bare metal’ on a Raspberry Pi |
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| Mac | 2011 | Basilisk II and SheepShaver | the most stable emulators for Motorola-based Macs, but maintained and released via an obscure forum, so quite annoying to keep up to date |
| 2023 | µvMac | An attempt to modernize the vMac source code |
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| Macintosh ROMs | quite amazed to see these in the wild |
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| Mini vMac | The most straightforward Mac emulator out there |
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| 2024 | MinivMacArduino | Port of Mini vMac to the Arduino framework (Kind of) |
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| nacemu | for of Basilisk and SheepShaver with networking support |
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| pico-umac | embeds the umac emulator into a Rasbperry Pi Pico, complete with VGA mono output |
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| umac | a minimalist Apple Macintosh 128K/512K emulator |
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| Ultibo-Mini_vMac | A minivmac fork to be built against Ultibo instead of out-of-date SDL2 |
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| MacRelix | a Unix-like environment that runs in classic Mac OS |
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| 2025 | pico-mac-nano | a minimal Mac emulator using an RP2040 and a tiny LCD |
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| rpi-basilisk2-sdl2-nox | a script to build Basilisk II on a Raspberry Pi with no X11 dependencies |
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| snow | a new classic 68K Mac emulator that emphasises accurate emulation and debugging features |
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| MR Browser | a package manager for emulated classic Macs |
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| N64 | 2010 | mupen64plus | a less polished but cross-platform alternative |
| Sixtyforce | A N64 emulator with the ability to render games in high resolution. |
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| Nintendo 3DS | 2020 | Citra | formerly available for Android with motion controls |
| Other | 2024 | libmui | a brilliant Classic MacOS & GS/OS widget library for linux used in the Apple IIe emulator |
| mii_emu | an Apple IIe Emulator for Linux |
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| oberon-risc-emu | Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine |
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| Twister OS | a set of UI themes and prebuilt ARM images to turn XFCE into faithful reproductions of older OSes |
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| PalmOS | cloudpilot-emu | a cloud-based emulator for running PalmOS applications that works on the iPhone |
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| Mu | PalmOS Emulator |
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| Psion | WindEmu | emulator for Psion Series 5mx (Windermere) |
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| Retrocomputing | 2023 | Clock Signal | a multi-system emulator that works beautifully on a Mac |
| Sinclair | 2010 | Fuse | A recent port of the cross-platform ZX Spectrum emulator |
| zxsp | Emulates a range of Z80-based devices, including the ZX81 I started out with. |
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| 2023 | pico-zxspectrum | a ZX Spectrum emulator for for the Raspberry Pico RP2040 MCU |
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| 2024 | zx2040 | a ZX Spectrum emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico |
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| 2025 | ZXBaremulator | a complete ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+2A bare-metal emulator |
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| Switch | 2023 | Ryujinx | Very good performance on Apple Silicon |
| 2024 | sudachi | Another yuzu fork |
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| Tools | retronas | network storage for different retro computers and consoles |
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| Wii U | 2022 | Cemu | Very good performance on Apple Silicon |
| Wii/GameCube | 2011 | Dolphin | An amazing Wii and GameCube emulator |
| Windows | 2024 | hangover | enables running Win32 applications on aarch64 Linux using various DLLs for improved performance. |
| 2025 | vbesvga.drv | a VESA VBE 2.0 compliant SVGA driver for Windows 3.1 |
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| winboat | a Windows VM wrapper that uses RDP and RemoteApp to render apps on Linux |