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DOS

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All-in-Ones and Front-ends

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
MESS stable-0.36
Emulates SEVERAL consoles and systems
CWSDMPI
Yes

Acorn and BBC Micro

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
Archie v0.9
Acorn Archimedes emulator
450Mhz Celeron or equivalent; SoundBlaster; ROMs; DOS4GW
Yes
ElectrEm
Acorn Electron emulator
CWSDMPI; VESA 1.2 or 2.0; SoundBlaster Pro or better
Yes
RPCemu v0.7
Acorn Archimedes emulator
Pentium 4 or better; ROMs; CWSDMPI
Yes

Amstrad

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
CPCE v5.2i
Amstrad CPC emulator
A fast 486 (486DX2-66, VLB, SVGA) or better; SoundBlaster; no PC speaker support; use v5.1i or older for slow 486 or 386 machines; ROMs included
Yes
ROMs
Download and use at own risk
Emulator
N/A

Apple

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
vMac v0.1.9.6
A Macintosh Plus (System 6.0.1 to 7.5.5) emulator
ROM required; flash the ROM yourself or find a file similar to "1986-03 - 4D1F8172 - MacPlus v3.ROM" with an MD5Sum of "8a41e0754ffd1bb00d8183875c55164c"; CWSDMPI
Yes
XGS/32 XGS DOS
Apple II series emulator; may be too complicated to get working
Pentium-90 or better; DOS 5.0; does not work on 486 or NT; works best on OS/2 Warp 4.0; ROMs; CWSDMPI
???
ROMs
Download and use at own risk
Emulator
N/A
Apple ][e ROMs
Download and use at own risk
Emulator
N/A

Arcade

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
AdvancedMAME v0.100.0
Multiple arcade emulator
???; MAME-friendly game ZIPs; CWSDMPI
Yes
TNZS-EMU
"The NewZealand Story" emulator for DOS
???; ROM images; CWSDMPI
???

Atari

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
FAST
Atari ST emulator
???
???
PCAE v2.5
Atari 2600 emulator; PC Atari Emulator
486; 540K RAM; SoundBlaster
Yes; may get sound "pops"

Commodore

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
CBM64
Commodore 64 emulator
???
???
NO$64 v1.1
Commodore 64 emulator and debugger
???; ~190KB EXE file
???
Vice v2.1
Commodore PET, VIC, PLUS4, 64, 128, CBM emulator; "DOSVICE"
Pentium; 8MB of RAM; CWSDMPI
???
ROMs
Download and use at own risk
Emulator
N/A

CHIP-8

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
CHIP8 v2.2.0
Written by Dave Winter, emulates both Chip8 and SuperChips
386DX or better
Yes
Vision-8
The Portable CHIP8 Emulator
286 or better; CGA
Yes

GameMaster 2001

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
GM2001
Emulator of the GameMaster 2001, it requires DOS 6.2 or above, as well as a speedy 386+ CPU
DOS 6.2 or above; speedy 386+ CPU; VGA; gm2.rom required
Yes

NEC

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
Hu-Go!
An emulator for PC Engine
???
???

Nintendo

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox
CBEBoy v0.51 βeta
Game Boy emulator with integrated dissassembler and debugger and other features
AMD K6-2 400 MHz or better; CWSDMPI
No
cingb
Game Boy emulator with double-size mode
???; CWSDMPI
Yes
dboy v0.75c
Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Color support: dboy.exe -gbc
???; CWSDMPI
Yes
Fondle
Game Boy emulator
???; DOS4GW
No
KiGB v2.03
Free portable emulator for Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Super Gameboy
Pentium (minimum), Pentium II+ (recommended); 16MB RAM; 16-bit or higher graphics
Yes
NESticle v0.43
A Nintendo Entertainment System emulator with a mouse-friendly GUI
486 or Pentium; DOS4GW; 8MB of RAM
Yes
Virtual GameBoy v0.88
Game Boy emulator
486DX-33 (486DX2-66 recommended); VGA; Adlib/Adlib Gold/SBPro/SB16
No
Virtual GameBoy Advance v0.6
Game Boy Advance emulator; 8bit and 16bit color options
???; assume Virtual GameBoy v0.88 requirements but better
Yes
zBoy v0.11
A Game Boy emulator created as a project by the author to learn about microprocessor architecture, assembly language, and so on
???; CWSDMPI
No
ZSNES v1.51
A Super Nintendo emulator
Pentium II (or equivalent) 233MHz; 32MB RAM; VGA; SoundBlaster; CWSDMPI
Yes

Philips

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
M2000
A Philips P2000 emulator
???
???

Radio Shack

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
CoCo 3
TSR-80 Colour Computer 3 (CoCo III) emulator
333K free RAM, VGA, and MS-DOS 3.3
Yes
T3 v1.01
A multi-tasking Dragon and Tandy CoCo II emulator; may be too complicated to use
80386 processor; MS-DOS v2.00; VGA; 209K RAM; ROM files required
Yes
Tand-Em v0.55
A Tandy 1000 and IBM PCjr emulator for 80386 (or higher)-based PCs
80386 or better CPU; Adlib or SoundBlaster; Tandy 1000 ROM required (at own risk)
No; XMS manager issue

Sega

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
Genecyst
A Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator with a mouse-friendly GUI; more info
Pentium; 8MB RAM; VESA; DOS4GW
Yes
Genesis Plus v1.2a
A Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator; sound may not work
???; CWSDMPI
Yes
Gens v0.15b
A Sega Genesis/MegaDrive, Sega CD, and 32X emulator; no sound
???; DOS4G; DOS4GW
No
KGen 98 V0.4b BETA TEST
A Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator with a keyboard-friendly GUI; the predecessor of KGen98 and Kega; Game Genie support
Pentium; VESA 2.0 for 16-bit video mode
Yes
SEE
A Sega Saturn and ST-V emulator
???
???
ROMs
Download and use at own risk
Emulator
N/A

Sinclair

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
Ameba
ZX Spectrum 128 emulator for .TAP files
???
Yes
Speccy v1.6
ZX Spectrum 16/48/128 and others emulator
???
Yes
Z80 v2.01
ZX Spectrum 48/128 emulator; use F1 to toggle a menu
512K RAM; VGA, CGA, EGA, Hercules, or Plantronics; Adlib; can use EMS memory
Yes
Z80Stealth
128K ZX Spectrum, Pentagon 128/512, Scorpion ZS 256 emulator
???
???
ZXTape Utilties
Lots of utilities regarding converting to and from the TZX file format
???
???
ZX Spectrum ROMs
Download and use at own risk
Emulator
N/A

Texas Instruments

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
TI-8x emulator
TI-8x Multiple machine support: TI-82, -83, -85, and -86; quite a few features including graphlink support, speed control, and a debugger
???
???

Vectrex

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
DVE
DOS Vectrex Emulator; it has a clickable interface (toggle with Spacebar) and includes games but use the DOS shell to launch a game as an argument first
???; based on GUI and EXE size, probably a 486
Yes

Z-Machine

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
Frotz 2.40
Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games
32-bit DJGPP version; needs a 386 or better processor
Yes
Frotz 2.53
Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games
Compiled with Turbo C++ 3.0 in 16-bit mode for maximum compatibility
Yes
Inf.bat
A Frotz mode selector batch script
???
Frotz
Color Schemes
Frotz color scheme selector batch scripts
???
Frotz
Infocom Games
Infocom Games
???
Interpreter
Interactive Fiction Archive
Interactive Fiction Archive
???
???

Source-Ports

For DOOM source-ports, try the argument -iwad ???.wad to play a custom IWAD

Title Description Recs and Reqs DOSBox?
Boom v2.02
GPLv2 DOOM engine; plays DOOM, DOOM II, Ultimate DOOM, and Final DOOM
486DX/33 with 8M of RAM; DOOM WAD; CWSDMPI
Yes
Fusion
DOOM source-port; A fork of MBF and good graphics; similar to JDP
???; ~1999; DOOM WAD; CWSDMPI
Yes
Joel's Doom Port v1.01
DOOM source-port; a fork of MBF and good graphics; similar to Fusion
???; CWSDMPI; based on MBF 2.03
Yes
Marine's Best Friend v2.03
DOOM source-port
???; CWSDMPI; based on Boom v2.02
Yes
RORDoom
One of the first Doom source ports to feature rooms above rooms capability, simaler to the Build engine
???; CWSDMPI; BOOM compatible IWADs
Yes
SMMU
DOOM source-port; "Smack My Marine Up"; a fork of MBF, good graphics, good sound, and lots of features
???; CWSDMPI; BOOM compatible IWADs
Yes

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