Emulation

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RPCS3 Emulator boasts over 1500 FPS on the Minecraft title screen

By Zak Killian Published

The RPCS3 emulator team brags of immense optimization even as fans whine that many titles remain unplayable without the latest hardware.

PlayStation
Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS

Programming
Open source IDE-ATAPI drive emulator launches for vintage computers

By Mark Tyson Published

PicoIDE is touted as 'an open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers.'

microSD Cards
Retro Apple emulator ported to $60 ESP32 microcontroller-powered touchscreen tablet

By Mark Tyson Published

A new emulator makes running classic Apple Macintosh 68K software a breeze on a cheap, portable, IoT development kit.

MacOS
D7VK reaches version 1.1 and adds frontend and experimental Direct3D 6 support

By Bruno Ferreira Published

D7VK has added experimental Direct3D 6 support, opening up near-native performance for older PC games without emulation.

Retro Gaming
Installing Win 95 on a PS2
Windows 95 on a PlayStation 2 kind of works — but this modded PS2 couldn’t play Doom

By Mark Tyson Published

'Silly tech' channel MetraByte has shared a video of their attempts to get Windows 95 and Doom95 up and running on the PlayStation 2.

PlayStation
Penguin + Excel
Developer gets Linux running inside Microsoft Excel, 'mostly for fun'

By Mark Tyson Published

Holy sheet!

Linux
Sonic Unleashed: Recompiled running natively on PC.
Full Xbox 360 recompilation for PC debuts with Sonic Unleashed Recompiled

By Christopher Harper Published

Sonic Unleashed is the first Xbox 360 game to receive a native port via Recompilation on PC, and the tools used have been open sourced.

Xbox
LinuxPDF screens, from a project by Ading2210
Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator

By Mark Tyson Published

A version of the Linux operating system can now be toyed with inside a PDF opened by a Chromium-based browser.

Linux
RPCS3 on Arm64 official graphic
Sony PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 now natively supports Arm64 architecture — including Raspberry Pi 5

By Christopher Harper Published

Sony PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 gets full native Arm support, demonstrated with both Apple silicon and Raspberry Pi 5.

PlayStation
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