Open Source Python Emulators

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CDemu - a virtual CD/DVD drive for Linux. Project includes Linux kernel module & userspace utilities.

Mininet creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine (VM, cloud or native), in seconds, with a single command. Because you can easily interact with your network using the Mininet CLI (and API), customize it, share it with others, or deploy it on real hardware, Mininet is useful for development, teaching, and research. Mininet is also a great way to develop, share, and experiment with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) systems using OpenFlow and P4. Mininet is actively developed and supported, and is released under a permissive BSD Open Source license. We encourage you to contribute code, bug reports/fixes, documentation, and anything else that can improve the system! Links are virtual ethernet pairs, which live in the Linux kernel and connect our emulated switches to emulated hosts (processes).

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.

RetroPie‑Setup is a collection of shell scripts designed to install and configure RetroPie—an emulation frontend—on Raspberry Pi OS, Ubuntu, Odroid, or PC platforms. It automates installing RetroArch, emulator cores, configuring controllers, themes, and optional ports. Used for retro gaming on varied hardware.

pfeMAME is a front end for the Multiple Arcade Game Emulator (MAME) written in (wx)Python. It is cross platform (tested on Linux (Ubuntu), Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), and MacOS. ). It also includes a graphical Tile View designed for MAME cabinets which allows control using joystick / gamepad. It supports favourite game flagging, MESS systems, Software Lists (for systems), per-rom input mapping, and launching of other emulation engines. pfeMAME was written by Gareth Finch and the development project started in 2014 . The goal was to create a MAME front end that was simple, as easy as possible to get into, and had some good documentation. It doesn't provide access to every single MAME option, but pretty much all of the relevant ones you will use from day-to-day. You are free to distribute pfeMAME and modify its source as you wish, however pfeMAME is not to be sold or repackaged for commercial sale.

PC-BASIC is a free, cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC, BASICA, PCjr Cartridge Basic and Tandy 1000 GWBASIC. -- This page is an archive and hosts the legacy version 1.2 of PC-BASIC only. -- For documentation and the latest releases, please see the official homepage: www.pc-basic.org Four source code, discussions and to report bugs please see the GitHub project page https://github.com/robhagemans/pcbasic

Cross-platform and multi-arch ultra lightweight emulator. Supported OS: Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD, DOS and UEFI. Support Arch: x86(16/32/64), ARM(64) MIPS, EVM and WASM. It also support Linux Kernel Module(.ko) , Windows Driver(.sys) and MacOS Kernel(.kext) via Demigod. Binary instrumentation and API are Qiling Framework's main focus and priority. It is designed for reverse engineers - thus there is no need to rebuild another sand boxing tool. Using Qiling Framework saves you time. The API-rich Qiling Framework brings reverse and instrument binary to the next level quicker. Additionally, Qiling provides API access to register, memory, filesystem, operating system and debugger. Qiling also provides virtual machine-level API such as save and restore execution state. It combines binary instrumentation and binary emulation into one single framework.

We moved to https://github.com/frankmorgner/vsmartcard see you there!

Alternative Lineage 2 Game Server written in Java.

mac-on-windows is a pearpc based powerpc emulator. it is faster than pearpc and it have a easy-to-use-gui on A old pentium 2, it lasts a minute for mac os x tiger has started.

This project implements a Windows SCSI hard disk driver which simulates physical Solid-State Drive (SSD). This driver includes a simple flash translation layer. Please note that the project is in alpha.

OoeyGUI MESS Launcher has been coded by Chris Schneider [SHIFT838] to be a front-end launcher for use to with MAME to easily launch an emulated TI-99/2, TI-99/4, TI-99/4A, TI-99/8 and Myarc Geneve 9640 computer systems. This application has been tested with MAME v0.225b and higher and is completed coded in Python for cross OS compatibility. It has been tested on Windows 10, Linux Ubuntu 20.04, MacOS Catalina/Big Sur and Raspberry OS on RPi4. Please be aware that MAME program switches have changed and this launcher will not work with older versions. Configure your system directories in the 'Configuration' tab and 'Save OOEYGUI Configuration'. To use the TIIMAGETOOL 'Serial Bridge' configuration you must have JAVA installed. For Windows 64bit systems please refer to the manual for getting the RXTX interface for java re-enabled.

OpenXCI is a Xen-based desktop hypervisor. Unlike other desktop hypervisors, it is not targeted at businesses wanting remote provisioning, but rather at individuals who want a high-performance alternative to dual/multi-booting.

Spyn is an Nintendo Entertainment System written entirely in Python, using Pygame for graphics / sound.

AxisCameraEmulator is a simple IP video camera emulator, which can be used to test CCTV software. It partially emulate Axis 223M network camera, using jpeg files as video steam. It support small subset of Axis VAPIX.

This is an attempt to make a complete, and playable atari emulator entirely in python and some common modules. Currently, it only requires PyGame 1.5.0 and Numeric.

The project focuses on the design of a CPU architecture emulator aimed to assembly languages course.

AmsdosFS is an implementation for Linux of Amsdos filesystem used on Amstrad CPC computers. It is written in Python and uses module Fuse Python to mount DSK images.

An Apple ][ Emulator written in Python.

Commodore 64 emulator in Python.

A pure Python-based emulated Unix-like OS for Series 60 mobile phones.

CabFE is a multi-emulator frontend for MAME, Daphne and other arcade games designed specifically for arcade cabinets using minimal set of controls (typically only a joystick and a few buttons) that are common on cabinets.

This project contains some test scripts and software for Analog Devices' DSP chip emulators. This verifies whether a particular emulator is working correctly with a particular PC and target board.

Dynagui is a GUI frontend for the dynamips Cisco 7200 router simulator.