Recommended Software - DOS - Emulators, Source Ports, Engines, and Console Tools

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DOS Emulators, Source Ports, and Console Tools

All-in-one

MESS - Emulates SEVERAL consoles and systems; no ROMs included; requires CWSDMPI

Acorn

Arculator - Acorn Archimedes emulator
ElectrEm - Acorn Electron emulator

Apple II

XGS/32 XGS DOS - Apple II series emulator

ROMs: Download and use at own risk

Apple ][e ROM

AtariST

FAST - AtariST emulator

Atari 2600

PC Atari - Atari 2600 emulator

Commodore 64

CBM64 - C64 emulator for DOS
VICE v2.1 - optimized for Pentium | For other systems and source code

ROMs: Download and use at own risk

Commodore-related DOS software

Assembly Language for Kids: Commodore 64 (1985); PDF

Chip-8

Chip8 Emulator - written by Dave Winter, emulates both Chip8 and SuperChips
Vision-8 - a portable emulator for the old CHIP8 system

CPCE - Amstrad CPC emulator

ROMs: Download and use at own risk

DOOM engines; most require CWSDMPI

Boom - GPLv2 DOOM engine
Fusion - a fork of MBF and good graphics; similar to JDP
JDP (Joel's Doom Port) - a fork of MBF and good graphics; similar to Fusion
MBF (Marines Best Friend) - a modification of the Doom source
RORDoom - This was one of the first Doom source ports to feature rooms above rooms capability, similar to the Build engine.
SMMU (Smack My Marine Up) - a fork of MBF, good graphics, good sound, and lots of features

GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advanced, and Super GameBoy

CBEBoy - GameBoy emulator
cingb - GameBoy emulator
DBOY - GameBoy emulator with GameBoy Color support: dboy.exe -gbc
Fondle - GameBoy emulator
KiGB - free portable emulator for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy
VGB - GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator
VGBA - GameBoy Advanced emulator
zBoy - a Game Boy emulator created as a project by the author to learn about microprocessor architecture, assembly language, and so on

Gamemaster 2001

GM2001 - emulator of the Gamemaster 2001, it requires DOS 6.2 or above, as well as a speedy 386+ CPU

Genesis, Sega CD, 32X

Genecyst - more info
Genesis Plus - Genesis / Sega CD / 32X emulator
Gens - Genesis / Sega CD / 32X emulator
KGen - the predecessor of KGen98 and Kega

ROMs: Download and use at own risk

Infocom Interpreters
- Frotz 2.40 | Source (32-bit DJGPP version, needs a 386 or better processor)
- Frotz 2.53 | Source
- Inf.bat - a Frotz mode selector batch script
- Color schemes - Frotz color scheme selector batch scripts
- Infocom games
- Interactive Fiction Archive

MAME

AdvancedMAME - play Arcade - MAME games

NES

NESticle - a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator

ROMs: Download and use at own risk

Famicom (NES) disk ROM image

SNES

ZSNES - a Super Nintendo emulator

Tandy

Tand-Em - a Tandy 1000 and IBM PCjr emulator for 80386 (or higher)-based PCs
- ROMs: Download and use at own risk
- Tandy system images
T3 v1.01 - a multi-tasking Dragon and Tandy CoCo II emulator
CoCo 3 - TSR-80 Colour Computer 3 (CoCo III) Emulator

The NewZealand Story

TNZS-EMU - The NewZealand Story emulator

TurboGrafx-16

Hu-Go! - an emulator for pc engine

Vectrex

DOS Vectrex Emulator (DVE) - a Vectrex emulator for DOS; it has a clickable interface and includes games but is command-line-friendly

ZX Spectrum

Ameba - ZX Spectrum 128 emulator for .TAP files
Speccy - ZX Spectrum 16/48/128 and others emulator
Z80 - ZX Spectrum 48/128 emulator
Z80Stealth - 128K ZX Spectrum, Pentagon 128/512, Scorpion ZS 256
ZXTape Utilties - lots of utilities regarding converting to and from the TZX file format

ROMs: Download and use at own risk

All ZX Spectrum ROM images

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