Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Emulators
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Emulators for Desktop Operating Systems
Browse free open source Emulators and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Emulators by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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VICE
Versatile Commodore Emulator
VICE is an emulator collection which emulates the C64, the C64-DTV, the C128, the VIC20, practically all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610). It runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X or Mac OS X machines. -
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VirtualBox
Virtualization software for x86_64 hardware
VirtualBox is a powerful open-source full virtualization software that allows a user to run one or more “guest” operating systems simultaneously inside “virtual machines” on a single physical “host” machine. It supports a wide variety of host platforms (Linux, Windows, macOS, Solaris, etc.) and guest OSes, enabling, for example, running Linux on a Windows PC, running Windows Server on a Linux host, or even legacy OSes in a controlled environment. This flexibility makes VirtualBox ideal for developers, testers, sysadmins, or hobbyists who need different OS environments, want to test software across systems, or need isolation for development, sandboxing, or security experiments. VirtualBox offers both a user-friendly GUI as well as a command-line interface and headless mode, making it useful for desktop usage as well as server or automated environments. -
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Wine
Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes. -
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The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse): an emulator of the 1980s home computer and various clones for Unix, macOS and Windows.
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VisualBoyAdvance
An emulator for Gameboy and GameboyAdvance systems
An emulator for Gameboy and GameboyAdvance systems. -
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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.
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RetroArch
RetroArch is a frontend for emulators, game engines and media players.
RetroArch is a way to run classic games on a wide assortment of Operating Systems and Consoles. Support the Developers on their Patron! https://www.patreon.com/libretro -
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MAME
A multi-purpose emulation framework
On December 24th, 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators, which he merged into one program during January 1997. He named the accomplishment by the name of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME for short. -
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VBA-M
A merge of the original Visual Boy Advance forks
The continuing development of the legendary VBA gameboy advance emulator. -
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PearPC is an architecture independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems. It includes a JITC for x86-Processors.
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DGen
Portable Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator.
DGen is a free, open source and portable emulator for Sega Genesis/Mega Drive systems. -
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uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video games. It supports almost every available backup unit for cartridge-based consoles and performs many other tasks like ROM hacking.
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The Psx Emulation Open Source project (P.E.Op.S.) contains several open source libraries (plugins) for freeware MSWindows and Linux psx/ps2 emulators.
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SIMH is a highly portable, multi-system simulator. This was a CVS source code server for the project. It has not been updated, and SourceForge does not have commit access to CVS anymore. Please see the new project here: https://github.com/open-simh/simh
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A MAME and MESS port with an advanced video support for Arcade Monitors, TVs, and PC Monitors. It also contains a bootable Linux LiveCD/USB, a frontend with animated MNG/MP3 snapshots, a rom manager, and recompression utilities for compressed files.
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teo-emulator
Teo is an emulator of the Thomson TO8 microcomputer
Teo is an emulator of the Thomson TO8 microcomputer for PC, running on MSDOS, Windows and Linux. The compatibility is close to 100% for softwares which don't use non emulated peripherals and don't hold physical protections. In other words, if a software doesn't work on Teo, so probably : 1. it needs the presence of another peripheral than mouse, light-pen, joystick, tape recorder and disks (so it won't run as long as this peripheral is not emulated), 2. its physical protection makes it fail. -
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Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS
Transfer disks and disk images between the Apple II and the real world
Apple Disk Transfer ProDOS (ADTPro) transfers classic 8-bit Apple disk images over a serial, ethernet or audio link to a more modern computer. Based on the seminal ADT, ADTPro can transfer any ProDOS- or SOS-visible volume. -
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O2EM is an open source multi-platform Odyssey2 / Videopac+ emulator. The Odyssey2 (Videopac/Jopac in Europe) was a video game console created in the late 70s.
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z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler
z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator
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FakeNES is a highly portable, Open Source NES and Famicom emulator. It runs on all modern operating systems and has an actively maintained DOS port for enthusiasts. Support for phones and other mobile platforms is under development. The majority of the project is entirely original code released under the zlib/libpng license. Contributed and third-party code is included under GNU licenses.
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Portable Cygwin
Script for portable installation of Cygwin
Portable installation of Cygwin that is integrated with PortableApps.com launcher. -
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JsDOSBox
JavaScript PC DOS Emulator
JsDOSBox is a JavaScript port of jDosbox (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jdosbox/) which is itself a port of DOSBox (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox). Demonstration of JsDOSBox at http://jsdosbox.sourceforge.net Running a game demo at http://jsdosbox.appspot.com (Chrome recommended). And running DOS demos at http://retropcdemos.appspot.com. See website link below for details on recent changes and instructions. http://sourceforge.net/p/jsdosbox/home/Home/ -
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Cambridge Z88
Software development for 4Mb portable, using Z80 CPU and AA batteries
This project is for the portable computer "Cambridge Z88", produced by Sir Clive Sinclair (of ZX Spectrum fame). We continue to support software development (ROM, 3rd party apps on memory cards and desktop applications). We have moved to https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki (development, source code and documentation). However, we continue to publish files for download here. -
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janus-UAE
Amiga Emulator (UAE) for AROS
ATTENTION: This repository is not active anymore. Janus-UAE moved to github in 2026, so please got to https://github.com/o11i/janus-uae/ for any possible updated sources. Janus-UAE (short: j-uae) is a transparent (rootless) Amiga Emulator for the AROS Operating System, based on the original UAE by Bernd Schmidt and E-UAE 0.8.29-WIP4 by Richard Drummond (sf.net unix name uaedev)). Janus-UAE2 is a direct port of WinUAE including its GUI to AROS. Janus-UAE2 is still in early development and released as a development snapshot for AROS/64bit ABI v1 only.
