Retrocomputing

This page is about retrocomputing, see also Fantasy Console for virtual neo-retro computers ^^.

In general

• MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator), now merged with MESS that was dedicated to computers emulation, is really complete, but maybe not the more efficient in all cases. It even contains a Bebox emulator!
• Qemu for lot of architectures too

8 bits series

6502

• 6502.org
• Easy6502 is an interactive tutorial and tool to learn 6502 assembly based on 6502js. Local copy without malicious site (like Google) anayltics and local copy of 6502js alone, also degooglized.
• Fake6502 library for emulating 6502 (patched version that bugfix and supports 65c02)

Assemblers

• xa or xa65 (cross assembler), (arch: xa) and it's companion debugger, dxa65 (or dxa)
• DASM assembler (documentation)

Commodore (CBM): C64, PET & VIC

• Very complete list of CBM tools, compilers, emulators for various OS
• xa (cross assembler), (arch: xa)
• [C64 coding guide](https://github.com/spiroharvey/c64/blob/main/asm/C64 Assembly Coding Guide.md)
• VICE emule whole 8-bit Commodore family (Arch: vice)

See also C64 Assembly page, a starting guide

Atari 2600,5200,7800,XE

• Atari Protos.com some bit of history around Atarti consoles
• Atari 2600 Programming for Newbies (HTML)
• Atari 2600 Programming for Newbies, revised edition (PDF, local copy)
• Stella A2600 emulator (documentation) is the reference emulator
• z26 A2600 emulator

Atari 400,800,XL

TODO

Oric

Sadly Xeuphoric emulator has disappear, will try to found sources on old disk, still available in MAME

• Oric.free.fr and (linked) Oric Ring (80s~90s website interlinks on a theme)
• Oricutron emulator is not made to be package a standard Unix way.
• See CLK for an accurate emulator (Arch: AUR:clk-sdl ou AUR:clk-qt)

Apple ][

TODO

Z80

• ZEsarUX multi-emulator (Arch: AUR:zesarux)

MSX

• asMSX for assembly
• fMSX light and efficient emulator
• openMSX more heavy emulator, manage lot of MSX flavors

Spectrum

• Fuse emulator (Arch: AUR:fuse)

16/32 bits

680x0

Amiga

• FS-Unix Amiga Emulator (Arch: install directly fs-uae-launcher)

Atari ST

• Hatari emulator

Intel 386/686

Old version of Linux

• Qemu Virt-manager Graphical frontend and its (virt-install cli tool), this take real hardware in consideration with KVM and virtIO and is the most efficient solution when running on x86_64. code source

Microsoft DOS/Windows

• DOS: DOSbox the reference implementation, can also be emulated on ARM or RISC-V.
• Windows: Wine + box86 to emulate this old-fashioned operating system and architecture (CISC AMD64) on modern RISC architectures (ARM, Loongson and RISC-V)

PowerPC 60x

BeOS

• MAME (see at top) emulate BeBox with PowerPC 603 and 604e

64 bits

## AMD x86_64

Microsoft DOS/Windows

• Windows: Wine + box64 to emulate this old-fashioned operating system and architecture (CISC AMD64) on modern RISC architectures (ARM, Loongson and RISC-V)

Other:

• archwiki emulation page
• Lot of interesting links

Fantasy Console

See dedicated page