Introduction


Emulators allow you to run software designed for another operating system and/or hardware. An obvious application of this is to run popular games. In addition to popular games console emulators, there are compatibility layers like Wine that allow Windows software to be used.

1. Windows Games

Some Windows games can run on Ubuntu, but they need either an emulator or a compatibility layer.

1.1. Windows Emulators

WINE logo

WINE - A completely free compatability layer that works for some games.

1.2. Windows Game List

Windows games that can be run on Ubuntu with an emulator.

2. Other Emulators

Name

Package Name

Emulates

Repository

Homepage

Status

MAME

mame

Multiple Arcade Machines

Universe

http://mamedev.org/

Active

Hatari

hatari

Atari ST, STE, TT, and Falcon

Universe

http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/

Active

Gngb

gngb

Nintendo Gameboy Color

Universe

http://m.peponas.free.fr/gngb/

Active

DeSmuME

desmume

Nintendo DS

Universe

http://desmume.org/

Active

Yabause

yabause

Sega Saturn

Universe

http://yabause.org/

Inactive

Atari800

atari800

Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200

Multiverse

http://atari800.sourceforge.net/

Active

DGen

dgen

Sega Genesis/MegaDrive

Multiverse

http://tamentis.com/projects/dgen/

Inactive

VBA-M

visualboyadvance

Nintendo Game Boy Advance

Universe

http://vba-m.com/

Active

FCEUX

fceux

Nintendo NES/Famicom (8-bit): NTSC and PAL

Universe

http://fceux.com/web/home.html

Active

Stella

stella

Atari 2600

Universe

http://stella.sourceforge.net/

Active

Mednafen

mednafen

Nintendo NES, GameBoy Advance, Atari Lynx, PC Engine

Universe

http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/

Active

KDE All Machine Emulator Frontend for Unix

kamefu

Nintendo NES, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, SNES, MAME

Universe

http://kamefu.pwsp.net/

Inactive

UAE: The Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator

uae

Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000

Multiverse

http://www.amigaemulator.org/

Inactive


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Games/Emulators (last edited 2014-09-27 14:36:27 by 213)