Retro Replay Retro Gaming History, Reviews & Emulation
Classic Computer Emulation
Preserving the home computers, operating systems, custom chips, and software that shaped personal computing.
Altirra
Start with our Altirra profile for the project overview, official sources, and setup guidance.
Commodore 64 & Amiga
VICE, WinUAE, FS-UAE, Denise, PUAE, and Amiberry.
PCMS-DOS & Windows
DOSBox, PCem, 86Box, ScummVM, and compatibility tools.
JapanMSX & Japanese Computers
openMSX, blueMSX, PC-98, Sharp X68000, FM Towns, and more.
BritainZX Spectrum & British Computers
Sinclair, Amstrad, Acorn, their developers, and setup guides.
Emulators for Classic Computers
Published emulator profiles for this branch. Open a card for setup, downloads, and sources.
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86Box
X86 PC EMULATOR 86Box 86Box is an open-source emulator that recreates IBM‑compatible PCs and period expansion hardware (from early 8-bit/16-bit PC-era systems through many Pentium‑…
Altirra
ATARI 8-BIT EMULATOR Altirra Altirra is a cycle-accurate Atari 8-bit computer emulator (and Atari 5200-compatible support) developed and maintained by Avery Lee. It runs on Windows…
amiberry
COMMODORE 64 AMIGA EMULATOR amiberry Amiberry is an optimized, open-source Amiga emulator derived from UAE code and maintained by Blitter Studio. It targets ARM single-board comput…
appler
MS DOS WINDOWS EMULATOR appler Appler is an Apple II (Apple ][) emulator originally written in 8088/8086 assembly to run under MS‑DOS. The repository on GitHub contains the origina…
AppleWin
APPLE II EMULATOR AppleWin AppleWin is a Windows-native emulator that runs software for the Apple II family (Apple II, II+, IIe). It is actively maintained on GitHub and distribute…
Atari800
ATARI 8-BIT AND 5200 EMULATOR Atari800 Atari800 is an open-source emulator for Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console, providing CPU, video and I/O emulation and por…
blueMSX
MSX/SVI/COLECOVISION/SG-1000 EMULATOR CORE blueMSX blueMSX (libretro core) — a libretro/RetroArch core port of the blueMSX MSX-family emulator. Provides emulation for MSX series ma…
C-swifty4
COMMODORE 64 AMIGA EMULATOR C-swifty4 C-swifty4 is a Swift-written, cycle-aware Commodore 64 emulator targeting macOS, iOS and tvOS. It is a personal/educational project in progres…
CocoaMSX
MSX JAPANESE COMPUTERS EMULATOR CocoaMSX CocoaMSX is an open-source MSX family emulator for macOS that ports core emulation from blueMSX into a native macOS application with featur…
Denise
COMMODORE 64 AND AMIGA EMULATOR Denise Denise is a cycle-aware emulator that implements both the Commodore 64 and Amiga platforms (multiple Amiga chipsets and many C64 expansions).…
DOS-Emulator
MS DOS WINDOWS EMULATOR DOS-Emulator A small open-source emulator of an IBM PC running DOS, written in Rust. Focused on emulating enough x86-16, BIOS/DOS, VGA and Sound Blaster fea…
DOSBox
DOS EMULATOR CORE DOSBox Libretro cores that run DOS games using DOSBox code (commonly distributed as dosbox, dosbox_core, and DOSBox-Pure cores) for use with RetroArch and other l…
DOSBox Staging
MS-DOS EMULATOR DOSBox Staging DOSBox Staging — a modern, actively developed continuation of DOSBox that focuses on maintainability, improved compatibility, and modern build/distri…
DOSBox-Pure
DOS EMULATOR CORE DOSBox-Pure DOSBox-Pure is a libretro core that ports a fork of DOSBox to the Libretro/RetroArch ecosystem, providing a RetroArch-native DOS environment with simp…
DOSBox-X
DOS PC EMULATOR DOSBox-X DOSBox-X — an actively maintained, highly-configurable open-source emulator for IBM PC-compatible DOS-era systems (including extended support for Windows 3…
DOSee
MS DOS WINDOWS EMULATOR DOSee DOSee — a web-front end that runs an EM-DOSBox (DOSBox JavaScript) MS‑DOS emulation stack in the browser, packaged as a progressive web app and develo…
ESPectrum
ZX SPECTRUM BRITISH COMPUTERS EMULATOR ESPectrum ESPectrum is an open-source Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator implemented to run on Espressif ESP32 SoC boards (examples: Lilygo TTGo V…
fs-uae
COMMODORE 64 AMIGA EMULATOR fs-uae FS-UAE — a cross-platform Amiga emulator and launcher focused on playing Amiga games on Windows, macOS and Linux. It provides a user-friendly fro…
gospeccy
ZX SPECTRUM BRITISH COMPUTERS EMULATOR gospeccy GoSpeccy is a ZX Spectrum 48K emulator implementation written in Go (golang). It provides Z80 CPU emulation, snapshot and tape loadi…
Hatari
ATARI ST, STE, TT AND FALCON EMULATOR Hatari Hatari is an open-source emulator for the Atari ST family: ST, STe, TT and Falcon. It runs on POSIX-like systems and other platforms su…
jPC
MS DOS WINDOWS EMULATOR jPC jPC — a Java-written x86 PC emulator that can run MS‑DOS and older Windows on top of a virtual PC environment. Jump to download ↓Jump to setup guide ↓ S…
JSpeccy
ZX SPECTRUM BRITISH COMPUTERS EMULATOR JSpeccy JSpeccy is an open-source, multiplatform ZX Spectrum emulator written in Java. It implements multiple Spectrum models, snapshot and t…
martypc
MS DOS WINDOWS EMULATOR martypc MartyPC is a cycle-aware emulator of early IBM PC, XT, PCjr and Tandy-class machines (targeting MS‑DOS-era software) implemented in Rust. It emphasi…
openMSX
MSX COMPUTER EMULATOR openMSX openMSX — a long-running, open-source MSX-family emulator with extensive machine profiles, device models, and a detailed manual. Cross-platform binari…