DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games...

Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...

• Plain ANSI portable C
• Fast, runs on low resource devices
• Multi platform:
• SDL ports for win32, linux x86
• Gameboy emulation
• Gameboy Color/Colour emulation
• gzip (.gz files) compress roms
• pkzip (aka regular .zip files) compressed roms

higan is a Nintendo multi-system emulator that began development on
2004-10-14. It currently supports the following systems:

• Famicom
• Super Famicom
• Game Boy
• Game Boy Color
• Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo DS

higan also supports the following subsystems:

• Super Gam ...

This emulator fully emulates the Sony Playstation. Compatibility is fairly high, most games I've tried work well.

An R3000 debugger is contained which may be of interest to people working on translations.

Retrospec are a team of coders, graphics artists and computer musicians who have gathered together [...] to bring you the best remakes of old 8 bit games and new original games with a decidedly retro feel that we can. We meet here in the clubhouse - a remarkable building with rooms on at least 5 planets (and a cosmic toilet, baby!)

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

ScummVM supports many adventure games, including LucasArts SCUMM g ...

UAE is a mostly complete software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. A Commodore Amiga, for those who don't know, is a 16/32 bit computer system based on the Motorola 680x0 CPU and a few specially designed custom chips that provide very good graphics and sound ca ...

VICE is a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, Dingoo, Syllable or Mac OS X machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C64DTV, the C128, the VIC20, almost all PET models, the PLUS4 and the CBM-II (aka C610).

VBA is the best and most popular Gameboy Advance emulator around. Emulates GBA, GBC, SGB, GBA roms! Supports ZIP-ed roms, so that after downloading files from the net you don't even have to un-zip them.