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VirtualBox
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Windows Virtual PC
Microsoft has added several new features to Windows Virtual PC to make it easy to use and to help you run many older Windows XP applications in Windows 7.DOSEMU stands for DOS Emulation, and allows you to run DOS and many DOS programs, including many DPMI applications such as DOOM and Windows 3.1, under Linux.
DOSEMU on LINUX
When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. QEMU supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, QEMU can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, and S390 guests.
QEMU
DOSBox
Several companies are using DOSBox to re-release old DOS games. GOG .com , a digital distribution website dedicated to old games, is one of the major users of our program; we sat down for a chat with Pawel ( GOG .com technical department), Lukasz (public relations) and Guillaume (manager): What made you decide to use DOSBox , instead of creating your own? Pawel: Before we launched GOG .com , we did think about creating our own software for emulating DOS environment under Windows, unfortunately time was crucial here and we decided to use DOSBox instead. Having our own software would have its advantages, but then DOSBox is an acclaimed and the best working DOS emulator out there, with hundreds of thousands (or even millions) users who test it on different hardware. In short these were the reasons we decided to use DOSBox , can’t complain we did that.
The VICE Emulator
(19 Dec 2009) Version 2.2 Current VICE team members: Andreas Boose, Tibor Biczo, Dag Lem, Andreas Dehmel, Andreas Matthies, Martin Pottendorfer, Spiro Trikaliotis, David Hansel, Markus Brenner, Marco van den Heuvel, Christian Vogelgsang, Fabrizio Gennari, M. Kiesel, Hannu Nuotio, Daniel Kahlin, Antti S.
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 capabilities. Its first incarnation, the A1000, appeared in 1985, followed by the highly successful A500 and A2000 models. UAE is written for Unixish systems; it is developed on a Linux machine but it should compile and run on any half-recent Unix-like operating system.