Emulation and Compatibility Layers
There are also APIs, virtual machines, and machine emulators that provide binary compatibility:
- Basilisk II for the 68040 Macintosh;
- DOSBox and DOSEMU for MS DOS;
- DeSmuME for the Nintendo DS;
- Dolphin for the Nintendo GameCube, Wii, and the Triforce;
- FCE Ultra and TuxNES for the Nintendo Entertainment System;
- Frotz for Z-Machine text adventures;
- gnuboy for the Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Color;
- MAME for arcade games;
- Mednafen and Xe emulating multiple hardware platforms including some of the above;
- Mupen64Plus and the no longer actively developed original Mupen64 for the Nintendo 64;
- PCSX-Reloaded, pSX and the Linux port of ePSXe for the PlayStation One;
- PCSX2 for the PlayStation 2;
- ScummVM for LucasArts and various other adventure games;
- SheepShaver for the PowerPC Macintosh;
- Snes9x, bsnes and ZSNES for the Super Nintendo;
- UAE for the Amiga;
- VICE for the Commodore 64;
- VisualBoy Advance for the Game Boy Advance;
- vMac for the 680x0 Macintosh;
- Wine for Microsoft Windows, as well as the forks CrossOver and Cedega; PlayOnLinux simplifies installing games;
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