Emulation

Emulation and hardware virtualization software of various descriptions, most of them obsolete by now:

CategoryDateLinkNotes
8-bit2025MCUME

a multi-system emulator for microcontrollers

chips-test

a collection of Tiny Emus for 8-bit systems

Amiga2008MaxUAE

Somewhat dead, with only Power PC binaries available.

UAE

Cross-platform Amiga emulator

2021amiberry

optimized for ARM cpus

Arcade2010Open Emu

A modular emulator that can be used as a Quartz Composer plug-in

2011Emulaunch

A multi-emulator front-end suitable for use on a TV

2022Provenance

an iOS and tvOS multi-emulator frontend

C642019bmc64

a “bare metal” C64 emulator for the Raspberry Pi

2025TeensyROM

a ROM emulator, fast loader, MIDI and internet cartridge for Commodore 64/128

DEC2024DECstation2040

A RP2040 based DECstation emulator (the workstations I used in college)

Emulation202486Box

a low level x86 emulator for running older operating systems and software.

2026M5Tab-Macintosh

68040 emulator on an ESP32-P4 with video rendering and input handling capabilities.

Musashi

A portable Motorola 68000 CPU emulator core used in many classic system emulators

Anemoia NES Emulator fixes

fixes for the ESP32 port of the Anemoia NES emulator

Gameboy2008Boycott Advance

GBA emulator. Universal binary.

Gaming2008KiGB

Gameboy/Gameboy colour emulator.

Generic x862008

Q

Used to be the best option for running Windows on Power PC

2010

Boxer

Graphics2025retroarch-shaders

a collection of finetuned shaders to replicate CRT looks on Retroarch

IBM PC2023martypc

a cycle-accurate IBM PC/XT emulator written in Rust

2025Dosbian

a lightweight distribution for Raspberry Pi that boots directly into DOSBox

felix86

a low-level x86 emulator for RISC-V platforms

Evertop

an ultra low power, ultra long battery solar PC

Faux86

designed to be run ‘bare metal’ on a Raspberry Pi

2026os8088

8088 operating system and retro x86 project

Mac2011Basilisk 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

2023µvMac

An attempt to modernize the vMac source code

Macintosh ROMs

quite amazed to see these in the wild

Mini vMac

The most straightforward Mac emulator out there

2024MinivMacArduino

Port of Mini vMac to the Arduino framework (Kind of)

nacemu

for of Basilisk and SheepShaver with networking support

pico-umac

embeds the umac emulator into a Rasbperry Pi Pico, complete with VGA mono output

umac

a minimalist Apple Macintosh 128K/512K emulator

Ultibo-Mini_vMac

A minivmac fork to be built against Ultibo instead of out-of-date SDL2

MacRelix

a Unix-like environment that runs in classic Mac OS

2025pico-mac-nano

a minimal Mac emulator using an RP2040 and a tiny LCD

rpi-basilisk2-sdl2-nox

a script to build Basilisk II on a Raspberry Pi with no X11 dependencies

snow

a new classic 68K Mac emulator that emphasises accurate emulation and debugging features

MR Browser

a package manager for emulated classic Macs

2026Retro68

A GCC-based cross-compilation environment for building 68K and PowerPC Macintosh software, including modern hobby projects and tiny utilities for classic Mac emulators.

Cydintosh

A Macintosh Plus emulator port for the Cheap Yellow Display ESP32 board, bundled with a few tiny 68k Mac applications and repurposed as a smart-home status display.

MacSurf

a modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC with CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, and native HTTPS

pico-mac

Runs the umac emulator on a Raspberry Pi Pico, with VGA output.

Macframe

An IBM mainframe emulator for macOS distributed as release downloads

speedmtr

A classic Mac benchmarking utility distributed via Gryphel (archive of classic Mac software)

Advanced Mac Substitute

An API-level reimplementation of classic 68K Mac OS that runs old Mac applications without an Apple ROM or original system software.

Multi-system2025retrom

a centralized management service that serves up web-based emulated games

N642010mupen64plus

a less polished but cross-platform alternative

Sixtyforce

A N64 emulator with the ability to render games in high resolution.

Newton2025Einstein

Newton MessagePad emulator for multiple platforms

Nintendo 3DS2020Citra

formerly available for Android with motion controls

Other2024libmui

a brilliant Classic MacOS & GS/OS widget library for linux used in the Apple IIe emulator

mii_emu

an Apple IIe Emulator for Linux

oberon-risc-emu

Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine

Twister OS

a set of UI themes and prebuilt ARM images to turn XFCE into faithful reproductions of older OSes

2026rocket68

C11 Motorola 68000 CPU emulator library focused on correctness, precise cycle counting, and easy embedding into retro projects.

Pocket8 / pico-ios

Native PICO-8 companion for iOS that embeds the official engine via WASM, adding instant save/load states, adaptive controls, and a smart library for cartridges.

OberonSystem3Native

Native port of Oberon System 3 for modern Windows units, complete with build scripts, packaging artifacts, and usage notes.

Klepton

JIT-less relinker and compatibility layer for running Quest/Android XR APKs on visionOS and macOS

Oberon System (ETH)

Official ETH Zurich archive for the Oberon language and operating system, including System 3 downloads, documentation, and research notes.

Project Oberon

Niklaus Wirth’s Project Oberon site: the book, FPGA schematics, and step- by-step guides to recreate Oberon hardware.

PalmOS2024cloudpilot-emu

a cloud-based emulator for running PalmOS applications that works on the iPhone

Mu

PalmOS Emulator

Psion2024WindEmu

emulator for Psion Series 5mx (Windermere)

RISC-V2025uvm32

a minimalist, dependency-free virtual machine sandbox that emulates a 32-bit RISC-V CPU that can run DooM

2026OberonSystem

RV32 variant of the OberonSystem project

Emuko

Fast RISC-V emulator written in Rust that can boot Linux and targets modern systems.

Retrocomputing2023Clock Signal

a multi-system emulator that works beautifully on a Mac

2025Bedrock

8-bit virtual computer system specification with assembler/emulators for PC, web, and Nintendo DS

2026RomM

A beautiful self-hosted ROM manager and player with metadata scraping, browser-based UI, and built-in EmulatorJS/RuffleRS players for hosting and sharing emulation collections.

Sinclair2010Fuse

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.

2023pico-zxspectrum

a ZX Spectrum emulator for for the Raspberry Pico RP2040 MCU

2024zx2040

a ZX Spectrum emulator for the Raspberry Pi Pico

2025ZXBaremulator

a complete ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+2A bare-metal emulator

Switch2023Ryujinx

Very good performance on Apple Silicon

2024sudachi

Another yuzu fork

Terminals2026Blaze

a VT420 terminal emulator written in Rust

Tools2024retronas

network storage for different retro computers and consoles

2026Memo-1

simple 6502-based computer project

Wii U2022Cemu

Very good performance on Apple Silicon

Wii/GameCube2011Dolphin

An amazing Wii and GameCube emulator

Windows2024hangover

enables running Win32 applications on aarch64 Linux using various DLLs for improved performance.

2025vbesvga.drv
winboat

a Windows VM wrapper that uses RDP and RemoteApp to render apps on Linux

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