List of emulators

This article lists software that emulates arcade and console game systems, as well as other computing platforms or CPUs.

Table of contents

1 Arcade Game
2 Console Game
3 Portable Game
4 Computing Platform
5 Multi-system
6 CPU

Arcade Game

MAME
Raine
XMAME for the X Window System
Daphne, the laserdisc game emulator

Console Game

Atari 2600
- PC Atari
- Stella
Atari 5200
- Virtual 5200 (DOS)
Atari 7800
- Virtual 7800 (DOS)
ColecoVision
- ColEm
- Virtual ColecoVision
Emerson Arcadia 2001
- Emerson Arcadia 2001 Emulator (DOS)
Mattel Intellivision
- Intv (requires Intellivision Lives! to run)
- Bliss
Sega Genesis
- Gens
- Genecyst
- Kega
- KGen
Sega Master System
- MEKA
- Chasms
Nintendo Entertainment System
- For Microsoft Windows
  - FCE Ultra
  - Jnes
  - NESten
  - Nester
  - NESticle
  - RockNES
- For UNIX/Linux
  - fwNES
  - iNES
  - TuxNES
Sony Playstation
- AdriPSX ILE
- Bleem!
- ePSXe
Super NES
- ZSnes
- SNES9x
Turbo Grafx 16
- Hu6280
Nintendo 64
- UltraHLE
- Nemu64
- Project64
- TR64
- 1964
- Mupen64
Xbox
- Cxbx

Portable Game

Atari Lynx
- Handy
- MetaLynx
Game Boy and Game Boy Advance
- BGB
- GNUBoy
- NO$GMB
- VGB
Game Gear
- MEKA

Computing Platform

Amiga
- Unix Amiga Emulator (UAE) for the X Window System
- WinUAE for Microsoft Windows
- Fellow]
Apple II
- Apple IIe Emulator for Windows
- IIe for the Macintosh
- Catakig emulates an Apple IIgs
- XGS/32 emulates an Apple IIgs (Windows)
Atari ST
- STonX for the X Window System
Commodore 64
Mac II/Quadra
- Basilisk II
- FUSION
- Gemulator
Macintosh Plus
- vMac
Macintosh Classic
- Basilisk
Tandy
- Tand-Em
TRS-80
- TRS-80 Colour Computer Emulator
IBM PC
- VirtualPC
- Bochs
Windows
- Softwindows emulates Microsoft Windows

Multi-system

Multi Emulator Super System (MESS)

CPU

MOS Technologies 6502
- A6502
- M6502
Intel Pentium
- RealPC for Macintosh
Motorola 68040
- Mac OS for PowerPC Macintosh (see Mac 68K emulator)
- Unix Amiga Emulator. The UAE emulation engine is commonly used in emulators of other 68K platforms, like the Macintosh.

A number of programs which provide compatibility for running programs designed for other operating systems on the same hardware are sometimes mistaken for emulators:

WINE runs Microsoft Windows programs on various Unix-like operating systems running on x86 machines
LINE runs x86 Linux programs on Microsoft Windows
iBCS (Intel Binary Compatibility Standard) allows a number of x86 Unix operating systems to run a common binary format
FreeBSD and other BSD Unixes have system call translation allowing them to run Linux binaries compiled for the same platform
SCO UNIX has a similar "Linux kernel personality"
VMware, Virtual PC, ShapeShifter, and Mac-On-Linux run entire operating systems inside another. This is called virtualization. Basilisk II also supports virtualization on m68k platforms.