List of emulators

This article lists software emulators.

Central processing units

ARM

• ARMulator
• Aemulor
• QEMU

MIPS

• SPIM: The OVPsim 500 mips MIPS32 emulator, can be used to develop software using virtual platforms, emulators including MIPS processors running at up to 500 MIPS for MIPS32 processors running many OSes including Linux. OVP is used to build emulators of single MIPS processors or multiple - homogeneous MP or heterogenous MP.

x86 architecture

• Bochs
• DOSBox
• FX!32
• PCem
• QEMU – an opensource emulator that emulates 7 architectures including ARM, x86, MIPS, and others
• box86
• Rosetta 2: Apple's emulator for macOS
  allowing to run x86_64 applications on arm64 platform

• Mac 68K emulator: For PowerPC classic Mac OS

PowerPC

• PearPC
• Rosetta
  : Apple's emulator for PowerPC processors, built into Mac OS X
• WarpUP: Amiga system for PowerPC expansion cards built into MorphOS and available for AmigaOS
• SheepShaver: Emulates the PowerPC processor. Can run Mac OS 7 to Mac OS 9.

Computer system emulators

Full system simulators

• Simics
• CPU Sim: A Java application that allows the user to design and create a simple architecture and instruction set and then run programs of instructions from the set through simulation
• GXemul: Framework for full-system computer architecture emulation

Mobile phones and PDAs

• Palm OS Emulator
• Adobe Device Central
• BlueStacks
• Windows Subsystem for Android
• touchHLE^[1]

Multi-system emulators

• blueMSX: Emulates Z80 based computers and consoles
• arcade machines
  , video game consoles and computers
• DAPHNE is an
  laserdisc video games with the intent of preserving these games and making the play experience as faithful to the originals as possible.^[2] The developer calls DAPHNE the "First Ever Multiple Arcade Laserdisc Emulator" ("FEMALE"). It derives its name from Princess Daphne, the heroine of Dragon's Lair. HYPSEUS is a modern SDL2 update to the DAPHNE emulator, named after a sibling to Daphne.^[3]

• ns-2
• Cisco Packet Tracer
• Router Sim

Operating system emulators

Unix

• Cygwin: For Microsoft Windows, provides a POSIX environment and system libraries (contained in cygwin.dll). This does not allow one to run unaltered Linux/Unix binaries. However, it allows use of the gcc compiler collection to compile software written for these operating systems from source code.

In addition to the POSIX system, Cygwin includes a package manager that connects to a repository with 9000+ software packages. Users can optionally use Cygwin ports repository which includes >2300 (86x64) to >2700 (86x32) additional software packages not included in the RedHat-hosted repository, including many GUI applications.

The repository contains a wide range of software, including

Tcl/Tk, and Lua

are available, along with multiple development libraries.

In addition to Bash, the GNU Utilities (e.g. find utilities, such as locate, find, grep) are installed by default. Hundreds of other software packages are included, many with non-POSIX Windows implementation, such as database management systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL), web servers (e.g. Apache HTTP Server), firewalls, text processing utilities, and console mode applications. In addition, there is a (reasonably stable) X.org/X11 implementation with GTK and Qt libraries. Based on these, graphic desktop managers, including GNOME, LXDE, LXQt, KDE, and others (e.g. x2go) with associated graphic user applications with variable stability and functionality.

Windows

• PortableApps
  platform and the 300+ available software applications which can be downloaded with it, work with little or no issues.

Printer emulators

• Ghostscript: Emulator for printers without PostScript

Terminal emulators

Video game console emulators

See also

• Comparison of application virtual machines
• Comparison of OS emulation or virtualization apps on Android
• Comparison of platform virtualization software
• List of compatibility layers
• List of free and open-source emulators for Android
• List of video game console emulators

References