Rui CarmoEmulation and hardware virtualization software of various descriptions, most of them obsolete by now:
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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 |
| 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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| IBM PC | 2023 | martypc | a cycle-accurate IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust |
| 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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| Ultibo-Mini_vMac | A minivmac fork to be built against Ultibo instead of out-of-date SDL2 |
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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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| PalmOS | Mu | PalmOS Emulator |
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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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| Switch | 2023 | Ryujinx | Very good performance on Apple Silicon |
| 2024 | sudachi | Another yuzu fork |
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| Wii U | 2022 | Cemu | Very good performance on Apple Silicon |
| Wii/GameCube | 2011 | Dolphin | An amazing Wii and GameCube emulator |