Projects

Wine

Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86 and x86_64 based Unixes.

DOSBox

DOSBox uses SDL to emulate the PC hardware required for running old DOS games. This includes a 386 processor, an S3/Trio video card with some tweaks to allow for older display hardware like the Tandy, a Sound Blaster Pro, the PC speaker, Tandy 3-sound, CMS/GameBlaster, Disney Sound Source, and MIDI. ... [More] DOS emulation is integrated. It is possible to mount local directories as drives inside the emulator. [Less]

QEMU

QEMU is a processor and system emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation

PCSX2

PCSX2 is a PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows and Linux, started by the same team that brought you PCSX (a Sony PlayStation 1 emulator), with continuing contributions from open source developers. PCSX2 is one of very few fully functioning PS2 emulators available today, with both high ... [More] compatibility and high performance. Many games still emulate slowly due to the inherent complexity of the PS2's architecture, but on whole the emulator is functional and enjoyable. PCSX2 has changed repositories a few times over the past year. Code metrics for contributions made from 2005 to 2008 can be found at the following Ohloh pages: https://www.ohloh.net/p/4001 https://www.ohloh.net/p/pcsx2_playground [Less]

ZSNES

ZSNES is a SNES/Super Famicom emulator for x86 computers. It runs on Windows, MS-DOS and Linux/FreeBSD and supports mode 7, sound, Super FX, and a lot more.

MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

Even though MAME allows people to enjoy the long-lost arcade games and even some newer ones, the main purpose of the project is to document the hardware (and software) of the arcade games. There are already many dead arcade boards, whose function has been brought to life in MAME. Being able to play ... [More] the games is just a nice side-effect. The huge success of MAME would not be possible without the talent of the programmers who joined to form the MAME team. At the moment, there are about 100 people on the team, but there is a large number of contributors outside the team too. Miodrag Milanovic is the current coordinator of the project. [Less]

VisualBoyAdvance

VisualBoyAdvance is a GameBoyAdvance emulator. It's not the fastest but it aims to be the most accurate.

jpcsp

Jpcsp is the most advanced PlayStation Portable emulator, allowing you to play your PSP games on a PC. Even though Jpcsp is written in Java, it can already reach 100% PSP speed on a lot of commercial games... and the emulator performance is constantly increasing. The project is still a beta ... [More] release, but currently more than 200 games are already playable. [Less]

DeSmuME

DeSmuME is a freeware emulator for the Nintendo DS created by YopYop156. DeSmuME is also known as YopYop DS is written in C++ for Microsoft Windows and can play Nintendo DS homebrew and commercial nds roms. The emulator its self is in French (with user translations to English and other languages). ... [More] But even French version of DeSmuME is easy to navigate through menus as it has a similar users interface to DSemu. It supports many homebrew nds rom demoes as well as a handful of Wireless Multiboot demo nds roms. DeSmuME is also able to emulate some of the commercial nds rom titles which other DS Emulators like iDeaS and Dualis aren't capable of doing so. [Less]

Bochs x86 PC emulator

Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation.