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Apple Emulators and Source-Ports

32-bit Intel and older

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Title Description Requirements
Aleph One
A source-port to play "Marathon," "Marathon 2," and "Marathon: Infinity"
Snow Leopard
ARAnyM v0.9.14
Technically "MacARAnyM"; a software virtual machine (similar to VirtualBox or Bochs) designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems (TOS, FreeMiNT, MagiC and Linux-m68k) and TOS/GEM applications
Snow Leopard
Arnold v1.6.1
An Amstrad CPC emulator
Snow Leopard
Atari800 MacX v4.1.0
An Atari 800 and 5200 emulator
Snow Leopard
B-Em v1.0
A BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
Mac OS X; PPC; may need Rosetta
Basilisk II v1.0_09.2017
A Macintosh emulator for older systems, such as System 7; you may also want the BasiliskII Disk Image Chooser application and the HFSUtilGUI application for creating HFS/HFS+ disk images; ROM; System 7.5.3 installer disk image; floppy boot image; download at own risk; instructions
Snow Leopard
BeebEm v3.3a
A BBC Micro and Master 128 emulator
Mac OS X; Universal
Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold v1.1.16
A source-port of the game; science-fiction; 2.5D; Wolfenstein-like; the story is set in the year 2140. Robert Wills Stone III, also known as Blake Stone, is an agent of British Intelligence, recruited after a highly successful career in the British Royal Navy.
Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8
Blake Stone 2: Planet Strike v1.1.16
A source-port of the game; science-fiction; 2.5D; Wolfenstein-like; Blake Stone is once again sent to stop the villain, with a direct order to find and terminate Dr. Goldfire, so that he would never threaten Earth again.
Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8
Bochs v2.6.8
A virtual machine program for running other 32-bit Intel-friendly operating systems while still running Mac OS X
Leopard
Bochs for iOS
Free and open-source, cross-platform virtual machine emulation; keep it small; good luck
Jailbroken iOS 6 (I think...)
Boxer v1.4.0
A DOS game manager and emulator
Snow Leopard
Boycott v0.6.7
A Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator
PPC Mac OS 8.6 and CarbonLib
Boycott Advance
A Game Boy Advance (GBA) emulator
Snow Leopard
Catakig v2.00 Beta 4
Apple II, Apple II+, and Apple IIe emulator
OS X 10.3.9
CocoaMSX v1.43 beta
An open-source MSX emulator for OS X based on blueMSX, one of the most accurate MSX emulators currently available; you can drag-and-drop games onto the application to play them
Snow Leopard
ColEm
ColecoVision emulator
68k + Appearance Manager or PPC
CrabEmu v0.2.0
An all-in-one emulator; however, it only supports Sega Master System, GameGear, SG-1000, Colecovision, and NES
Snow Leopard
D1X-Rebirth v0.58.1
A source-port for the game "Decent"
Snow Leopard
D2X-Rebirth v0.58.1
A source-port for the game "Decent 2"
Snow Leopard
Dapplegrey
A frontend for the Mac OS X DOSBox port
Tiger; Universal
DeSmuME v0.9.11
A free and open-source Nintendo DS (NDS) emulator
Snow Leopard
DMGBoy v1.0
A Game Boy-only (no Color) emulator
Snow Leopard
Dolphin v3.5
A GameCube/Wii emulator; try the JITIL option; using the mouse for the Wiimote barely moves in-game pointers; Dolphin for Mac OS X did not fix many of the mouse-related problems until v3.5-301 and the last to work on Snow Leopard was v3.5-663 and I have no idea what "-???" this is
Mac OS X 10.5.4+
DOSBox v0.65
A free and open-source DOS emulator
PPC Mac OS 9.2.2
DOSBox v0.74-3-3
A free and open-source DOS emulator
Snow Leopard
DOSBox Megabuild 6
A free and open-source DOS emulator
Leopard
Eduke32 (Gtk svn3648)
A source-port to play "Duke Nukem 3D" and other game engine-related games
Snow Leopard
Eduke32 r8344
A source-port to play "Duke Nukem 3D" and other game engine-related games
Leopard
Emulator Enhancer v2.4.0
A shareware module which adds a range of additional features and options to emulators maintained by Richard Bannister
Snow Leopard
Enjoy2 v1.0
Map keyboard keys to a game controller or joystick
Snow Leopard
E-UAE v0.8.29 WIP 4
An Amiga emulator; HOWEVER, use the command-line method (binary inside of app) for a MUCH easier time as you cannot rely on the config file method. The "-r" argument is for the Kickstart rom path. A workflow app via Automator would make this faster.
Snow Leopard
Exult v1.6
A source-port for the game "Ultima VII"; you will also want to install the audio data
Snow Leopard
fMSX
An MSX emulator; though, it is a bit buggy
Snow Leopard
Free42 v2.0.6
A re-implementation of the HP-42S Scientific Programmable Calculator and HP-82240 Printer
Snow Leopard
Gambatte r532
One of the best Game Boy Color emulators for Mac OS X 32-bit Intel
Mac OS X; 32-bit Intel
Game Hunter
A video game organizer; v1.1.14 for Leopard; v1.2 for Snow Leopard
Mac OS X; 32-bit Intel
GemRB v0.8.0-130-g5116fdb
A source-port to play games that use Bioware's Infinity Engine, such as Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Tournament
Snow Leopard
Genesis Plus
A Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulator
Snow Leopard
GrayBox Z Beta 1
NES and Famicom emulator
PPC
Gsport v0.31
An Apple IIgs emulator
Snow Leopard
GZDoom v1.9.1
A free and open-source source-port for playing Doom WADs; Doom, Doom II, Hexen, Heretic, Chex Quest, etc.; however, ZDoom v2.8.0 will play better
Leopard
Hatari v2.0.0
A free and open-source Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator
Tiger; Intel
Horizon v1.39
a BBC Micro emulator; it does not come with ROMs and it seems as though only the B+ ROMs work; you are better-off running BeebEm v4.13 via WINE
Snow Leopard
iDOS 2 v1.4
It is basically DOSBox for iOS wit a few games included; read this to add games/software
Jailbroken iOS 5.1.1
iNES v1.2
NES and Famicom emulator
Mac OS 8+ PPC or System 7 with Appearance Manager
InfocomPro
Infocom games interpreter for ProDOS
Apple II with ProDOS
ioquake3_universal_2021-09-10
A source-port for the game "Quake III: Arena"
Snow Leopard
iortcw v1.51c
A source-port for the game "Return to Castle Wolfenstein"
Snow Leopard
JACE 2012-08-28
Java Apple Computer Emulator; a logical reproduction of an enhanced Apple //e computer, written in Java 6; you will have to run it from the Terminal rather than use the JAR Launcher
Java 6
JAVATARI v3.30
A multiplayer (share keyboard) Atari 2600 emulator written in pure Java withouth the need for any external libs
Java
JKCEMU v0.9
A Robotron KC 85 / Z 9001 emulator
Java 6
JPCSP
A PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator; it is very limited and buggy
Snow Leopard and JAVA
Jump52
An Atari 5200 emulator
Snow Leopard
jzIntv
An Intellivision emulator; uses the command-line and does not include required ROMs
Panther; Universal
Kega Fusion v3.63i
A Sega Master System, Game Gear, Genesis/Megadrive, SegaCD/MegaCD and 32X emulator; alt link
Snow Leopard
KiGB
A Game Boy, Super Game Boy, and Game Boy Color emulator
Snow Leopard
Level 9 v5.1
Use this to play the extracted data files from any of the Level 9 text adventure games of the 1980s
Snow Leopard
LisaEm 1.2.7-RC4_2022.04.01
An Apple Lisa emulator
Snow Leopard
Lxdream v0.9.1
A Sega Dreamcast emulator; you will need to place a "dcboot.rom" in its corresponding Application Support directory; supports disc, CDI, and NRG
Snow Leopard
Mac Spectale v1.5.5
ZX Spectrum emulator
Macintosh Classic; System 7, an 68020+ or PowerPC, Color QuickDraw, and QuickTime
Mac64
Commodore 64 emulator
PPC System 7
MacMAME v0.28
An arcade emulator but you will need to find zipped ROMs that are compatible with this version
68k System 7
MAME v0.190
An emulator used for playing arcade games; this is a command-line version and therefore more open to other system-types if you have the correct ROMs and placement
Snow Leopard
MAMEOSX v0.135
An emulator used for playing arcade games; graphical user interface ONLY
Snow Leopard
MasterGear v1.4
Sega Master System and GameGear emulator
PPC; Appearance Manager required for System 7
MESSMenu v0.8.5
An all-in-one emulator with support for several systems, though you will have to supply your own system ROMs for several of them
Snow Leopard
MicroEmulator v2.0.4
A J2ME emulator; plays Java midlet games designed for "dumb" or "feature" phones
Java
Mini vMac 36.04
A Macintosh 68k emulator
Snow Leopard
MO5
A Thomson MO5 emulator
Snow Leopard
Modeler v0.9.3a
Sega System 32, Sega System 32 Multi, and Sega Model 1 emulator but only the System 32 games will work
PPC Mac OS 8.6 and CarbonLib
Mugrat v0.4.3
A Colecovision emulator
Leopard; Universal
Mupen64Plus v1.99.5 Bundle
A Nintendo 64 (N64) emulator; you will need to understand how to use the Terminal; no GUI front-end included
Leopard
Neko Project II
A PC-9801E emulator; only d88 files seem to work
Leopard or Snow Leopard with Rosetta
NekoLauncher Mednafen v0.9.29-WIP
Mednafen multi-emulator with NekoLauncher graphical front-end; click here just for Mednafen
Snow Leopard
Neopocott
A Neo-Geo Pocket Color emulator
Snow Leopard
Nestopia
A free and open-source Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator
Snow Leopard
O2Em v1.1.1
A Magnavox Odyssey2 / Videopac G7000 emulator
Tiger
OpenEmulator v1.0.3
An all-in-one, modular emulator; comes with Apple I an II emulation
Snow Leopard
openMSX v0.9.1
A free and open-source MSX emulator; includes the C-BIOS; you will have to learn how to use it like a command-line program to play games
Snow Leopard
OpenTTD v1.8.0
A source-port for the game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"
Snow Leopard
Oric
A Tangerine Computer Systems Oric emulator
Snow Leopard
Oswan
A Bandai WonderSwan emulator
Snow Leopard
PCSX-Reloaded v1.9.92
A PlayStation emulator with working game controller support
Snow Leopard
PCSX2 v0.9.9
A PlayStation 2 emulator; this version uses Wineskin and is very slow to start and VERY laggy; almost point-less
Snow Leopard
Power20 v4.9.5
An emulator for the Commodore VIC-20
Leopard; Universal
Power64 4.9.5
An emulator for the Commodore 64
Leopard; Universal
Previous v2.2
A NeXT computer hardware emulator
Leopard
Project Magma v1.8.4
A source-port/disc installer for the game "Myth II: Soulblighter"
Snow Leopard
QEMU v5.1.0 Cocoa "Screamer"
Free and open-source virtual machine emulation; the script that runs inside of the app appears to be for Mac OS X 10.3 (IMG not included) but could be changed
Leopard
QtBkBtl Beta 8
An Elektronika BK0010/BK0011 emulator; a project of the computer emulation of the Soviet domestic BK-0010/BK-0011, built on a 16-bit processor K1801VM1 compatible Instruction Set family PDP-11
Leopard
QtUkncBtl Beta 24
An Elektronika BK0010/BK0011 emulator; a project of the Soviet school computer simulation UKNC built on two processors KM1801VM2 compatible with the family of PDP-11
Snow Leopard
Rainbow
An Atari 8bit computer (400, 800, XE, XL, 5200, 7800) emulator
Snow Leopard
RAINE v0.51.9
An arcade emulator that emulates M68000 and M68020 based games; mainly focused on Taito and Jaleco games hardware
Tiger; Intel
RetroArch
A free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications
Leopard | iOS9
RockNES v2.4.0
NES, Famicom, and Famicom Disk (BIOS "disksys,rom") emulator; this may be the best one for PPC
PPC Mac OS 8.5
Sara v0.5.0
An Apple /// emulator
Snow Leopard
SDLJoyTest
Use this to test connected gamepads and joysticks as far as SDL-based programs/games are concerned
Snow Leopard
ScummVM v2.9.1
A source-port for playing old point-and-click games popularized on DOS and Amiga systems, as well as a few from Windows and Mac
Leopard
SDLTRS v1.1.0
A Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator
Snow Leopard
SheepShaver v2.4
A Macintosh PPC emulator for OS 8 and OS 9; use Basilisk II for older than that; you will also want the SheepShaver folder; a clean OS 9 HD image; ROM; place the ROM file into the SheepShaver folder; rename the ROM to "Mac OS ROM" with no extension; download at own risk; SheepShaver GUI apps found here
Snow Leopard
Shockolate v0.5.8
A source-port for the game "System Shock"
Snow Leopard
SimCoupe v1.0
A SAM Coupé emulator
Tiger; Universal
sixtyforce v1.0
An N64 emulator; may want a registration key to unlock more features
Snow Leopard
SMS Plus
A Sega Master System and GameGear emulator
Snow Leopard
Snes9x v1.43
A Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator
PPC Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib v1.6
Snes9x v1.53
A Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator
Leopard; Intel
SoftVMS Dreamcast Virtual v1.8.1
A Sega Dreamcast VMU emulator; memory card game player
PPC Mac OS 8.1 and CarbonLib
Stella v0.7
An Atari 2600 emulator
PPC System 7
Stella v4.2
An Atari 2600 emulator
Leopard
Supermodel wrapped games
A collection of Sega Model 3 games inside of Supermodel emulator wrappers
Leopard
Sweet16
An Apple IIgs emulator
Tiger; Universal Binary
Teo
A Thomson TO8 emulator
Snow Leopard
TGEmu
A NEC PC Engine emulator
Snow Leopard
Thom
A Thomson T07 emulator
Snow Leopard
TIC-80 v1.1
A free and open-source fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games; you will need WINE installed to use this or play TIC-80 games
Snow Leopard
uHexen2 v1.5.9
A source-port for the game "Hexen II: Hammer of Thyrion"
Snow Leopard
Unreal Speccy Portable v0.0.17
A ZX-Spectrum emulator that supports Z80 128K (Pentagon) AY/YM, Beeper, Beta Disk, Tape, Kempston Joystick/Mouse, Snapshots
Snow Leopard
USB Overdrive
Use this if an emulator does not support gamepads/joysticks; pair keyboard keys with buttons; HOWEVER, you will see a message to register after each login
Snow Leopard
Vecx v0.1.6
A Vectrex emulator
Leopard; Universal
ViBE
A Virual Boy emulator; though, it is a bit buggy
Snow Leopard
VICE v2.4
A collection of emulators for Commodore 64, 128, CBM, PET, PLUS4, and VIC-20
Snow Leopard
Virtual ][
Apple ][, ][+, and //e emulator; evaluation version (pauses every 5 min and other minor annoyances); make sure it downloads as a DMG file if using wget
Tiger; Intel
VirtualBox v4.3.40
Use this to run other 32-bit or 16-bit, Intel-based operating systems from inside of Mac OS X; you will also want the VirtualBox Extension Pack
Snow Leopard
Virtual Gameboy v2.0
Game Boy and Game Boy emulator; probably the best one for PPC Mac OS 8/9
PPC or System 7 with Appearance Manager
Virtual Jaguar v2.0.2
An Atari Jaguar emulator; however, it is very picky and only loads from ZIPs; see the included "Downfall.zip" example
Mac OS X; Intel
Virtual T v1.5
A TRS-80 Model 100/102/200 emulator
Tiger; Universal
WACKE v1.6
An Atari 400-800-XL-XE emulator; use "REVBNTSC.ROM" file; hold down Command key to show bottom menu
PPC System 7.5.2
WINE Bottler Combo v1.8.6
I know, "WINE Is Not an Emulator"; however, you will need this to run Windows games/programs; I would not both above WinXP if you can help it, though some installers require Win7 but then run fine on WinXP afterwards; use the Bottler to make Windows programs portable for others without WINE installed
Snow Leopard
Wolf4SDL v1.7.7
A source-port for Wolfenstein 3D; edit the app content's "startwolf.sh" file to use 960x600
Leopard
wxMupen64Plus v0.3 Combo
A Nintendo 64 (N64) emulator with a GUI front-end; combining this with the Mupen64Plus version previously mentioned may be more ideal
Leopard
X Millennium Build 05/02/14
A Sharp X-1 Turbo Emulator
Snow Leopard
Xash3D FWGS v0.9.12
A free and open-source engine for playing Half-Life
iOS 6
XM61 v0.37
An unofficial port of the Japanese Sharp X68000 computer emulator XM6; menus are in Japanese
Snow Leopard
XRoar v0.33.2
A Dragon 32/64 and Tandy Colour Computer (CoCo) models 1 & 2 emulator
Tiger; Universal
Yabause 0.9.14
A free and open-source Sega Saturn emulator
Snow Leopard
z26 v3.02
An Atari 2600 emulator
Snow Leopard
ZDoom v2.8.0
A Doom source-port; you use this to play Doom WAD games, including Chex, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, and etc.
Snow Leopard
ZIP
Infocom games interpreter; V1-V5 support
Apple IIGS
Zoom v1.1.5
An Infocom game player; Z-Machine emulator; rename the "dat" files to have the "*.z3" (or whatever) extension for Zoom to see it
Snow Leopard
ZXSP v0.7.2
Simulates the black & white models ZX80 and ZX81, the Jupiter Ace, the ZX Spectrum models with 16K and 48K ram, the Spanish clone from Inves, the +128, +2, and the +2A/+2B including the Spanish and French localised versions
Snow Leopard

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