emulation

Floci is a tool that enables local emulation of cloud services, allowing developers to test and develop applications without relying on actual cloud infrastructure.

gbemu-cli is a command-line tool that converts the SameBoy Game Boy emulator into a stateful dynamic-analysis service for AI agents, offering features like step execution, breakpoints, memory tracing, and scripting capabilities.

This article describes how to boot Apple's ill-fated Copland operating system in a browser using the DingusPPC emulator, with instructions on running it and links to necessary patches.

A web-based study and emulation tool for the Elektron Machinedrum digital synthesizer, allowing users to interact with its features in a browser.

This project aims to statically recompile the N64 game Ogre Battle 64 to a native PC executable using the N64Recomp toolchain, with the main code segment fully recompiled. The work was mostly performed by the DeepSeek v4/v4.1 Flash AI model.

A Canadian enthusiast reverse-engineered the PlayStation 2's MechaCon security chip after four years of effort, unlocking its secrets for hardware preservation and emulation projects.

A user claims that the GPT-6 Astra model successfully reverse engineered The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, enabling gameplay on a phone after two hours of processing.

A browser-based port of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City using WebAssembly allows players to stream the game instantly with integrated save management and cross-platform input support.

The Dolphin emulator initially failed to run 'The Smurfs Dance Party' due to its Metaphfortress anti-piracy system, which checks for a specific USB 1.1 interface. Implementing USB passthrough support resolved the issue, allowing the game to pass validation.

The article explains why the Windows Entertainment Pack didn't use emulation for MS-DOS games due to 1990s hardware limitations like insufficient memory and lack of virtualization support, making it impractical and resulting in a poor user experience.

A blogger runs Photoshop on a £0.60 Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip by emulating an old Apple Macintosh, highlighting the potential for low-cost, minimal viable computing devices.

Fire Emblem is now playable via a web browser, featuring a landscape screen design. You'll need to rotate your device for the full view.

A minimal kernel designed to run a NES emulator without any operating system, with additional programs like Mandelbrot fractal visualization.

A deep-dive technical article exploring the CHIP-8 programming language, its instruction set, interpreter quirks, and strategies for writing portable CHIP-8 programs.

A retrocomputing blog post reports that a QEMU fork can now emulate Intel Itanium (Merced) well enough to run Windows XP 2002 for IA-64, and documents building a cross-compiler on macOS to help get it working.

This blog post explores how to make RISC-V execution faster on non-RISC-V machines using an ahead-of-time recompiler that connects basic blocks with tail calls and leverages Clang's preserve_none calling convention, as part of the OpenVM project at Axiom.

A developer demonstrates running the game DOOM using a regex engine as a computational substrate, performing millions of substitutions per frame.

PCjs uses JavaScript to emulate vintage computer hardware and software from the 1970s and 1980s, allowing retro computing experiences in a browser.

A practical guide to setting up an AmigaOS development environment on Linux, covering toolchain installation, emulation, and remote debugging.

elfuse is a lightweight, process-scoped runtime that runs Linux ELF binaries natively on macOS Apple Silicon without Docker or full VMs, using Hypervisor.framework and optionally Rosetta for x86_64 translation.