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RetroPie BIOS
Full BIOS collection for RetroPie
RetroPie BIOS is a curated collection of BIOS files intended for use with the RetroPie emulation platform, providing the essential firmware required to run a wide range of classic gaming systems. The repository organizes BIOS files for numerous consoles and arcade systems, ensuring compatibility with RetroPie and related emulation environments. Each file in the collection has been verified against reference databases such as the Libretro system definitions, ensuring accuracy and reliability. The project simplifies the process of setting up emulation systems by consolidating required BIOS files into a single, organized package that users can directly integrate into their RetroPie installation. It also includes checksum validation mechanisms, allowing users to verify file integrity and ensure that BIOS files match expected standards. By maintaining a structured and verified dataset, the repository reduces common issues associated with missing or incorrect BIOS files. -
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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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ASAP (Another Slight Atari Player) plays and converts 8-bit Atari music (*.sap, *.cmc, *.mpt, *.rmt, *.tmc, ...) on modern computers and mobile devices.
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Agat Emulator
Apple 2 and Agat 7/9 emulator
Apple ][ and Agat 7/9 software simulation program for Win32/Linux. -
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EKA2L1
An experimental Symbian OS emulator
Experimental Symbian OS emulator, written in C++ 17. The emulator currently emulates Symbian OS's EKA1 and EKA2 behavior, and reimplement most of its critical app servers. It can already boot many EKA1 and EKA2 apps. For more discussion and support, please visit our Discord server. Artifacts for Windows, OSX, Linux and Android are provided through Github Actions. Click on the Releases section to get the newest stable build. Compatibility for the games and software that can (and can't) run on the emulator can be verified. -
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Panda3DS
HLE 3DS emulator
Panda3DS is a new emulator for the Nintendo 3DS. It allows fans of the console to enjoy their favorite games with various enhancements and unique features on all their devices, be it a laptop, a desktop, or on the go with a Steam Deck (and phone someday). Welcome to the home site for Panda3DS, a new emulator hoping to bring all sorts of unique features to the 3DS emulation scene, such as support for scripting, various enhancements, support for all sorts of platforms, development tools, and more. -
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higan
higan is a multi-system emulator focused on accuracy & preservation
higan is a multi-system emulator, originally developed by Near, with an uncompromising focus on accuracy and code readability. It currently emulates the following systems: Famicom, Famicom Disk System, Super Famicom, Super Game Boy, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Player, SG-1000, SC-3000, Master System, Game Gear, Mega Drive, Mega CD, PC Engine, SuperGrafx, MSX, MSX2, ColecoVision, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color, SwanCrystal, Pocket Challenge V2. Automated, untested builds of higan are available for each supported operating system. -
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Boxedwine
Emulator that can run 32-bit Windows programs/games
Boxedwine is a cross-platform emulator that enables users to run Windows applications by combining a Wine runtime with a custom emulated Linux kernel and CPU environment. Instead of relying on a native Linux system, it creates a fully self-contained execution environment that allows Windows binaries to run on platforms such as macOS, Linux, Windows, and even web browsers via WebAssembly. The project is written primarily in C++ and leverages SDL for graphics and input handling, providing a flexible runtime capable of supporting a wide range of applications. It supports both 16-bit and 32-bit Windows programs, along with graphics APIs such as OpenGL, Direct3D, and Vulkan for rendering. One of its key innovations is portability, as it can run in environments that traditionally cannot support Wine, including browser-based deployments. While performance and compatibility vary depending on the application, it continues to evolve with improvements in memory usage and execution speed. -
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OSX-KVM
Run macOS on QEMU/KVM
OSX-KVM is a collection of scripts, firmware files, and documentation for running macOS virtual machines on Linux with QEMU and KVM. It uses OpenCore and OVMF components to create a Virtual Hackintosh without requiring a Mac host. The project can fetch installers for multiple macOS generations, prepare installation media, and guide users through the complete virtual machine setup. It supports Intel VT-x and AMD SVM hosts, although newer macOS releases impose additional CPU instruction requirements. Included resources cover networking, libvirt, offline installation, headless operation, diagnostics, cloud environments, and GPU passthrough experiments. The repository is useful for macOS testing, development, research, and build-farm scenarios on compatible hardware. Users must still evaluate Apple licensing requirements and the hardware-specific limitations of their chosen configuration. -
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Unicorn Engine
Unicorn CPU emulator framework (ARM, AArch64, M68K, Mips, Sparc
Unicorn is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework. Highlight features. Multi-architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, S390x (SystemZ), SPARC, TriCore & x86 (include x86_64). Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API. Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Pharo, Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, D, Lua, JavaScript, .NET, Delphi/Pascal & MSVC available. Native support for Windows & *nix (with macOS, Linux, Android, *BSD & Solaris confirmed). High performance by using the Just-In-Time compiler technique. Support fine-grained instrumentation at various levels. Thread-safe by design. Distributed under free software license GPLv2. Another significant change on this version is the addition of some new APIs to allow better control on how the core engine works. -
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kvm, or kernel-based virtual machine, is a device driver and userspace component for Linux that utilizes hardware virtualization extensions such as Intel's VT to create virtual machines running on a Linux host.
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CEmu emulator
Third-party TI-84 Plus CE / TI-83 Premium CE emulator
Developer-oriented emulator of the eZ80-based TI-84 Plus CE / TI-83 Premium CE calculators. CEmu is a third-party TI-84 Plus CE / TI-83 Premium CE calculator emulator, focused on developer features. The core is programmed in C and the GUI in C++ with Qt, for performance and portability reasons. CEmu works natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux! Easy setup - get running by doing a one-time-only connection of your calculator! Accurate and fast emulation. Customizable speed/throttling. Resizable calculator screen. "Always-on-top" window option. Screen capture (PNG). Screen recording (animated PNG). File sending/receiving (not for Apps/OS yet). Multiple keybinding presets. Emulation states for efficient saving / restoring. Color skins (like the real devices). Available in English, French, Spanish, and Dutch. -
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WAV-PRG is a program for converting Commodore 64 tapes to PC and back. It is designed not to require any custom-built cables: transfers between PC and tape are done by means of a tape player/recorder connected to the PC's soundcard by a plain audio cable
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VirtualBoxes - Free VirtualBox(R) Images
Appliances of free/open source operating systems for VirtualBox
We provide ready-to-use Oracle VM VirtualBox(R) images for open-source operating systems that can be used for testing and/or security-related purpose, or for anything you wish. News, HOWTOs and much more is available at the project web site. N.B. Newer OVAs are only available through BitTorrent: torrent links are published only on our website. Please search our database in http://virtualboxes.org/images/ -
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AQEMU
a GUI for virtual machines using QEMU as the backend
AQEMU is a GUI for virtual machines using QEMU as the backend. Support for the KVM accelerator on Linux is provided. The application has a user-friendly interface and allows to set a large number of options. -
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QtEmu is a graphical user interface for QEMU and KVM written in Qt4. https://github.com/uwolfer/qtemu
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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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SameBoy
Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C
SameBoy is a user friendly, powerful and open source Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Super Game Boy emulator for macOS, Windows and Unix-like platforms. SameBoy is extremely accurate and includes a wide range of both powerful debugging features and user-facing features, making it ideal for both casual players and developers. Of course, SameBoy also has every feature one would expect from an emulator – from save states to scaling filters. Supports Game Boy (DMG), Game Boy Pocket and Light (MGB), Game Boy Color (CGB) and GBC-Mode Game Boy Advance (AGB) emulation. Supports accurate high level emulation of Super Game Boy (SGB; NTSC and PAL) and Super Game Boy 2 (SGB2). High quality 96KHz audio. Battery save support. Save states. Follows the BESS specification for cross-compatibility with other emulators. Includes open source boot ROMs for all emulated models. Complete support for all game-specific palettes in the CGB/AGB boot ROM, for accurate emulation of Game Boy games. -
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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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OPENTHOS
Run Android and Linux applications side by side
OpenThos is a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on Android-x86. It's designed to run Android and Linux applications side by side. OpenThos is unique because it was designed with security and privacy in mind. You can run OpenThos on your PC or laptop without installing it. -
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Android Emulator Container Scripts
Minimal scripts to run the emulator in a container for various systems
android-emulator-container-scripts turns the Android Emulator into a cloud-native service you can run in Docker and Kubernetes, so teams can provision ephemeral Android devices on demand. It includes scripts and container images that configure the emulator for headless operation, wire up networking, and expose endpoints for ADB and web access. A built-in WebRTC bridge lets you stream the emulator screen to a browser with interactive input, which is ideal for CI dashboards, remote debugging, or demo environments. The project focuses on reproducibility and scale: you define which system image to boot, how to persist or reset data, and how many instances to run, then schedule them like any other workload. GPU acceleration, audio, and sensors can be enabled depending on your host and cluster capabilities, while fallbacks like SwiftShader keep things usable when no GPU is available. -
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AndroidSDK
Full-fledged Android SDK Docker Image
AndroidSDK is a Docker-based development environment that provides a complete, portable Android SDK setup for building, testing, and deploying Android applications in a consistent and reproducible way. Instead of installing and configuring the Android SDK locally, developers can run a preconfigured container that includes essential tools such as the SDK, build tools, Gradle, and Kotlin compiler. This approach solves common issues related to environment inconsistency, such as dependency conflicts or differences between developer machines and CI pipelines. The project emphasizes minimalism and flexibility by shipping only a base SDK image, allowing developers to mount their own SDK components and customize installations as needed. It is particularly useful in continuous integration workflows, where deterministic builds and clean environments are critical. -
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Furnace
A multi-system chiptune tracker compatible with DefleMask modules
Furnace is a powerful multi-system chiptune tracker that enables users to compose music using the sound chips of classic computers, consoles, and arcade hardware. It supports an extensive range of audio chips, including FM synthesis, wavetable synthesis, and sample-based systems, making it one of the most versatile trackers available. The software is compatible with multiple operating systems and can be used both as a standalone application and as a development tool for retro-style audio production. Its interface is inspired by traditional tracker software, allowing precise control over note sequences, effects, and instrument parameters. Furnace stands out for its compatibility with Deflemask modules and its ability to emulate the sound characteristics of numerous legacy systems with high fidelity. It is widely used by musicians, game developers, and enthusiasts who want to recreate or innovate within retro sound design constraints.
