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AppleIIGo Emulator 2.0 Build 301
AppleIIGo Emulator is a brilliant Apple II family emulator more>> <<less
Catakig 2.0b4
Catakig is a product considered an emulator of the 8-bit family of Apple II computers. more>>
Enhancements:
- Improved Epson-to-PostScript printing. Files now viewable with Apples Preview utility.
- Added recognition of the //c Rev. 04 ROM.
- Addressed flickering display bug in full-screen mode.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
Catakig is a free emulator designed for the popular Apple II series of personal computers, supporting the Apple ][, ][+, //e, and //c models. Catakig 2.00b4 - ColinLicense:Freeware
Catakig lends you the chance of using an emulator for the popular Apple II series of personal computers, which supports the Apple ][, ][+, //e, and //c models
Hatari 1.3.0
Hatari is an Atari ST emulator that are supported by the SDL library. More precisely, Hatari is an adaption of the WinSTon source code to the SDL library, using the portable UAE CPU core instead of the original, non-portable assembler CPU core. more>> <<less
BSNES 0.4.7
Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. more>> Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator.
BSNES has a somewhat different purpose to most emulators; it focuses on accuracy over performance.
To that end, it does not include any game specific hacks, or idle-loop skipping optimizations commonly found in other emulators. To add to the fun, it uses a cycle accurate hardware emulation.
The net result of all this is the highest system requirements of any emulator available for Mac; those without a G5 class machine need not apply. If your Mac meets the requirements, however, this is the most accurate SNES emulation available on the Macintosh platform.
Main features:
- Support for the S-RTC and S-DD1 custom chips.
- Full sound emulation.
System requirements:
- BSNES requires a minimum of a PowerMac G5 to run. The current release is unlikely to run at full frame rate on anything less than 2.3GHz.
Enhancements
- In sync with the latest version for PC (again!). The major change in this release is support for the SuperFX chip (Yoshis Island, Starfox, etc).
- Began using profile directed optimization in Xcode, which gives roughly a 10% speed up.
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Free and open source DOS-emulator for your Mac. more>> Free and open source DOS-emulator for your Mac.
DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X.
Its statically compiled against SDL and built upon the Cocoa, Carbon, OpenGL, QuickTime, and AudioUnit frameworks.
DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games.
This is a rather trivial port of DOSBox to MacOS X. What if you just want to play some old games? This port of DOSBox may be your answer.
Its statically compiled against SDL, is built upon the Cocoa, Carbon, OpenGL, QuickTime, and AudioUnit frameworks, and thus, is only MacOS 10.3.x (or Panther) compatible. It has partial protected mode emulation, a subset of VESA 1.2 functionality (800x600x8) via S3 Trio emulation, and internal modem support via the SDL_net framework.
You can "re-live" the good old days with the help of DOSBox, it can run plenty of the old classics that dont run on your new computer.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Add two new opl2+opl3 emulators. (better speed, different implementation approach)
- Improved DRO recording/better file structure.
- Add EGA emulation.
- Add special vga machine mode. Supports more of the exotic tricks like changing the palette during screen updates, 9x16 fonts etc.
- Added special machine modes for the following svga cards:S3ParadiseTseng
- Fix problems with the vga split line feature.
- Improve vesa emulation.
- Add optional selection of old vesa mode for games that dont work with certain vesa features.
- Improve video BIOS emulation to behave more like a real bios.
- Fixes for emulated 4bpp graphics modes.
- Fixes to paging system.
- Various fixes and improvements for the recompiling core.
- Add arm backend for the recompiling core.
- Add some mscdex quirks when dealing with files that are exactly 8.3 long.
- Small fixes to batch file handling.
- Small fixes to the XMS memory handling.
- Various fixes for aligned memory on hosts that want it.
- Various improvements to the mouse.
- Fixes and small speed ups to the debugger.
- Fix and improve lots of compilation problems. (curses detection, GCC 3.4 and GCC 4.X fixes)
- Added some basic auto keyboard layout handling. (windows only currently)
- Add basic support for evdev keyboard driver.
- Various fixes to the timer. (improve mode 2 timer changes, implement mode 1, improve gate2 handling)
- Add audio extraction and mci audio support. Should enable CDROM audio for Vista and adds volume control.
- Improve the directory cache speed a lot, especially with mounting slow media like network paths.
- Various fixes to the create temporary file call.
- Dont keep batchfiles open during execution. Allows rewriting of the active batchfile. (menu programs use this trick sometimes)
- Fix problems with filenames with 2 extensions.
- Add some more lowlevel dos tables.
- Fixes to hercules emulation.
- Fix flag handling for special case of ROR.
- Make the batchfile handling in regard to IF more flexible.
- Fixes to scrolling/panning feature.
- Add prefetch queue emulation.
- Make the emulated cpu type selectable. This is mainly the identification commands and the way paging works.
- Some special EMS functionality added. (OS handles, zero-page handling)
- Improve support for EMS when booting a different OS.
- Improve cdrom speed detection by games.
- Improve stability of cycle guessing code, when there is background activity.
- Fix various mscdex and cdrom detection schemes.
- Added Coremidi support on Mac OS X.
- Improve support for DOS devices when used to detect the existance of directories in various ways.
- Add IRQ 2 emulation on VRET. (ega only)
- Added video parameter table and video state functionality.
- Increase default freespace to 250 MB.
- Some fixes to the fat filesystem handling for disk images.
- Some soundblaster fixes and command additions.
- Fix mixer 16bit direct transfers on bigendian hosts.
GoatTracker 2.68
Commodore 64 SID music tracker. more>>
GoatTracker 2.68 is the best tool for you to commodore 64 SID music tracker. It is a cross-platform tracker producing SID chiptune music and it's released with source code under the GPL. It is notable for being possibly the only SID chiptune-composer NOT native to the C64, as many alternative composers (including JCH, and CyberTracker) only execute on the C64 or inside C64 emulators.
Many SID tunes are available in various formats on the Internet, especially through the High Voltage SID Collection (HVSC). GoatTracker is capable of directly exporting to the .sid (PSID/RSID) file format in addition to standard C64 PRG files.
This Mac OS X port of GoatTracker integrates the cross-platform code with a standard Mac OS X GUI, and adds additional features, such as MIDI keyboard support and comprehensive built-in help.
Nes.app 2.3.3
Nintendo Emulator for iPhone. more>> Nintendo Emulator for iPhone.
NES.app is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for Apples iPhone.
NES.app uses an emulator core called NESCore, which has been forked from pNESx and InfoNES and re-engineered as a high-performance and highly-portable Nintendo emulator core.
In order to use NES.app, you will need ROM images of games written
for the Nintendo Entertainment System platform. There are many public domain,
home-brew games available which have been written for the Nintendo platform,
and depending on your country of origin, you may be entitled to play images
of commercial games which you rightfully own.
NOTE: If you find NES.app useful, please consider sending the author a cash donation through PayPal at jonathan@zdziarski.com.
System requirements:
- iPhone
Enhancements
- Added backward compatibility for 2.0/2.1
HP-12W 1.14
HP-12W offers you a versatile HP-12C emulator for Mac OS X Dashboard with the power to support all HP calculator operations, including financial, IRR, depreciation, statistics, and programming mode. more>> HP-12W 1.14 offers you a versatile HP-12C emulator for Mac OS X Dashboard with the power to support all HP calculator operations, including financial, IRR, depreciation, statistics, and programming mode. The engine is the same as the HP-12C emulator for Web.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
KEmul 0.1.1
Free and open source KDE emulation module more>> Free and open source KDE emulation module
KDE Emulators Tools is a set of KDE applications and plugins that ease the use of UNIX and UNIX-like console and computers emulators on the K Desktop Environment.
Each emulator has its own KPart frontend in a Universal KDE Frontend to all emulators which is the main part of the project. To each emulated system, a KFile plugin to Konqueror is made to be able to see the meta-information of the systems ROM.
System requirements:
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Enhancements:
- Update the filters after the collection building.
- Fix addition on ZIP file in the collection.
- Fix the desktop file to display correctly in menu.
cingb 0.29
Free and open source Gameboy emulator more>> Free and open source Gameboy emulator
cingb is an attempt to write a Gameboy-emulator for all kinds of platforms. cingb plays Gameboy and Gameboy Color ROMs and also includes a debugger for step-by-step analysis of Gameboy programs. cingb might be interesting for educational purposes.
NOTE: cingb is licensed and distributed under the terms of the BSD License.
Enhancements:
- Timing fixes for fast PCs
- Optimizations in drawing code
- Code cleanups
mrxvt 0.5.4
Free and open source multi-tabbed terminal emulator more>> Free and open source multi-tabbed terminal emulator
Mrxvt (previously named materm) is a lightweight, powerful multi-tabbed terminal emulator for the X window system. mrxvt is based on rxvt version 2.7.11 CVS and aterm.
It implements many useful features seen in some modern X terminal emulators (like konsole and gnome-terminal) but aims to be lightweight, fast, and independent of standard toolkits or desktop environments (e.g. KDE / Gnome).
Main features:>
- Multi-tab support
- Run time changeable per-tab titles / backgrounds / colors.
- Session support for each tab
- Input broadcasting to all tabs
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Translucency and pseudo transparency support
- JPEG / PNG / XPM background support
- Off-focus background fading
- Xft support.
- Text shadow
- Menubar / popup menus
- XIM and multi-language (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) support.
- Five different scroll bar styles
- Small and fast.
- Does not depend on GTK / Qt / Gnome / KDE.
- Available on multiple platforms.
- utmp/wtmp/lastlog logging
Enhancements:
- configure.ac: Version bump to 0.5.4
- doc/mrxvt.1, src/rxvtlib.h, src/screen.c, src/xdefaults.c: Removed (obsolete) scrollWithBuffer option. It caused problems if combined with ttyInhibitScroll.
genesis4iphone 1.0.1
A great Sega Genesis emulator for iPhone. more>> A great Sega Genesis emulator for iPhone.
genesis4iphone is a Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) and Sega CD emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch!
It is based on Notazs heavily updated PicoDrive emulator. genesis4iphone it is also able to support zipped roms.
System requirements:
- iPhone or iPod touch.
psx4iphone 0.8.0
Playstation emulator for the iPhone/iPod Touch. more>> Playstation emulator for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
psx4iphone is a Playstation emulator for the iPhone/iPod Touch. psx4iphone accepts the following game formats: .ISO, .BIN, .IMG, .Z, .ZNX.
System requirements:
- iPhone or iPod Touch.
Enhancements
- Updated GUI. Much improved!
- Buttons highlight when pressed.
- Runs on all 2.x.x firmwares to date.
- Large performance gains from all previous versions.
- Much more stable gameplay.
- Volume control can be changed and save states/bookmarks can be made during gameplay!
Fuzzbug 0.0.1
Fuzzbug is considered as a professionally designed Spectrum ZX Emulator for Mac OS X. more>>
Fuzzbug 0.0.1 is considered as a professionally designed Spectrum ZX Emulator for Mac OS X. Development of this project began many years ago as test code for my then new emulator shell, and while it was never intended for public release it seemed a shame to sit on it indefinitely. It is not intended to compete with the more elaborate Spectrum emulators, but if you just want to play the occasional game then it may work for you. In short, it's crap, in a funky skillo sort of way.
- Support for .sna format snapshots (only).
- Emulation of the original ZX hardware, supplemented with the AY-3-8912 sound chip.
SimCoupe 0.8.3
SimCoupe is a professionally developed SAM Coupe emulator for the Macintosh which emulates the original SAM Coupe 512K computer. more>>
SimCoupe 0.8.3 is a professionally developed SAM Coupe emulator for the Macintosh which emulates the original SAM Coupe 512K computer. It is also able to function as a Spectrum emulator because the hardware is very similar. Sound support is now included, using the SAA1099 core by Juergen Buchmueller and Manuel Abadia.
