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This page attempts to list the various categories of emulators and Virtual machine software out there.

Contents 1 Hardware 1.1 Commodore 1.2 Misc 1.3 x86 2 Game Consoles 2.1 Arcade 2.2 Game Boy and Game Boy advance 2.3 Nes/Famicon 2.4 Nintendo 64 2.5 Sony Playstation and Playstation 2 3 Misc 4 OS 5 Programming languages environments

Hardware

Commodore

• VICE - C64 C128 VIC-20

Misc

• qemu - emulates different types of CPUs.

x86

• Bochs
• VMware - Supports running Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Novell OS.

Game Consoles

Arcade

• MAME
• ZiNc

Game Boy and Game Boy advance

• Gnuboy
• Visual Boy Advance

Nes/Famicon

• FCE Ultra
• NEStra
• TuxNES

Nintendo 64

• Fake64
• Mupen64

Sony Playstation and Playstation 2

• ePSXe
• PCSX
• PCSX2

Misc

• ScummVM - Classic LucasArts engine for point-and-click adventures.

OS

• colinux - allows running Linux on Microsoft Windows.
• CrossOver
• DOSEMU
• DOSBox
• User-Mode Linux - Run another Linux kernel in userspace.
• Win4Lin - emulates Windows 98/ME on Linux.
• Wine - Emulation layer for running Windows applications.
• WineX
• VirtualPC - emulates x86 on MacOS.

Programming languages environments

• JVM - Java Virtual machine, but there are also other languages that run in it.
• Parrot - VM specially designed to run interpreted languages.
• Mono - .NET CLR.