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This page is dedicated to software emulators running on PC's (IBM compatibles). Due to limited server space NO software will be provided. Links to appropriate sites will however be established. You may think of this page as of a META-emulator page, nothing but links and some information will be provided.
Some emulators I like a lot, some others are just here for completeness (there will probbably never be a complete list of available emulators, they just pop up everywhere nowadays). I will only include emulators that work on my system. That possibly will exclude emulators running under an OS other than Linux, DOS, and this graphical monster. (but as a matter of fact I don't know of any emulator running under another OS on a PC).

I do realise that the contents of this page is partly covered by the emulators-faq, that's ok with me (that FAQ is pretty good, but not allways up to date). I don't want to create a huge beast like that one. This page is partly intended for myself, to do some quick lookups at certain interesting sites, on the other hand to give others the information I've collected. I do intend to put some material on this page that is not covered by that FAQ. I don't know now how frequently I will be updating this page in the future, I will try to provide direct links to the software, but with rapidly changing version numbers one never knows how long the link will be relevant. In addition I will provide links to appropriate homepages/ftp-sites.

One other thing. There are people out there writting highly portable emulators. These emulators are very soon after completition ported to various other system. Some by their author, some by talented other people. I don't want to discredit anyone by not mentioning every name related to every emulator.
This page is intended to give information about emulators, not about people who are writing or porting them. I hope you people don't mind if I only mention some of you. I really don't mean to discredit your work, it's just that people get burried under names and links if I mention you all.
Most often links to homepages and the like will be provided, people looking for information who has done the programming will find your name, I'm quite confident of that.

My absolute favourite one NOW:

My personal favourites are:
Other really great ones:
One to look out for:

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    Emulators-FAQ

    The newest version of the emulators-faq may be found at     rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/emulators-faq.
    Or via link try the following:
    There is also a HTML version (which is uptodate! -sorry I wronged you Adam):
    Naturally there are many places to visit, one fine place for example is Marat's Computer Corner (it's not really up to date, but then which page is?).
    Another page related to Marat's emulator fascination is http://www.komkon.com/pub/emul8/ which has a small collection of 8 bit computers (video games).

    NEW It seems emulator pages are quite modern, yet another page...
    http://www.nfinity.com/~swhalen/node99/index.html a mainly console oriented page, most of the time UP TO DATE!!!
    http://www.telecall.co.uk/~gavinlew/emulator.html
    Or try the follwing one, was not up to date the last time I checked, but it shows some promise...
    and another...
    In this document you will find many links. Most of them are directly related to emulation and/or to the computer they are associated with. Just keep 'surfing' thru this doc, I'm sure by following every link on every page (and so forth) you will be occupied quite a while and will get much information about emulators and classical computers and games.
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    Dragon/Color Computer

    Another computer I don't know much of. I tell you what I found, OK? There is a FAQ about it though, in case you don't know either and want to learn more about it. It can be found     http://www.io.com/~vga2000/faqs/ or try a download (look) via link http://www.io.com/~vga2000/faqs/coco.faq.
    The Dragon Data HomePage http://www.york.ac.uk/~djl102/computers/dragon/dragonhome.html.
    (good one) Paul Burgin's Dragon Page http://public.logica.com/~burginp/dragon.html.
    Dragon & Tandy CoCo Emulator Home Page http://public.logica.com/~burginp/emulators.html.

    Software can be found at the follwing places:

    Another interesting page:

    There even is a newsgroups that's related to dragons....

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    ZX 81

    There is a     ZX 81 FAQ at http://www.gre.ac.uk/~bm10/zx81.faq.
    Or try http://www.gre.ac.uk/%7Ebm10/zx81.faq, there is a hypertext version as well, http://www.gre.ac.uk/%7Ebm10/zx81faq.html. There are only two known emulators for PC compatible computers:
    I didn't dig to deeply in the pool of information, concerning one of the smallest computers. I collected a few interesting pages related to the subject. I'm sure you will find much information if you follow them:

    There used to be a ZX81 homepage at:
    A new one is accessable at:
    and another

    Another good page for sinclair related stuff is the following:

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    TRS 80

    There is a TRS 80 Homepage at     http://www.kjsl.com/trs80, much information and other interesting links can be found there.
    An TRS80 emulation homepage appeared recently (or was discovered):
    http://members.aol.com/trs80emul.

    These are the known emulators for PCs.
    Something else to say:
    Jeff Vavasour Also did a Model III emulator which is not shareware. You can contact him at the above address and ask about it.

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    CP/M

    I'm not really interested in CP/M emulation. We used to have a CP/M computer at school, but it wasn't really a machine that could catch my interest. I include it in this list because I found some emulations, I'll just give a list, nothing more, I didn't even try them yet (aren't     MSX computers supposed to run CP/M too? What about C128 (VICE)?). All I know about it, is that it used to run on Z80 processors and that it is somekind of 'father' to (MS) DOS (not the company that is, but there are some really old routines left in the 'kernel' (interrupts that is, hardly can call that a kernel)...).
    For some other information about CP/M emulation look at the Emulators FAQ.
    (There is a comp.os.cpm FAQ available too, but I didn't bother to look for a link, anybody interested?)
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    Last Updated: 20. September 1996
    Malban