Free emulators software for linux

DeSmuME project is a Nintendo DS emulator that can run both commercial games and homebrew applications.

The original author of DeSmuME is YopYop156. He has stopped working on it on the beginning of april 2006 and passed the torch to a new team of developers. You can now follow the progress of DeSmuME on this site.

cereal is an emulation framework designed to allow easy emulation of interconnected modules. Its main component is an 8051 emulator module, so it can be used as an 8051 emulator.

The reason for writing cereal was an 8051 embedded controller which should control an engine using pulse-width modulation, read the resulting flow from a flowmeter, and regulate the output to keep flow at a given value.

In the real world, it takes about two seconds for the algorithm to stabilize, and emulating two seconds using conventional emulators (computing the engine input, the real flow, the feedback frequency) by hand is simply impossible to do.

Using cereal, it took about two hours to create a module emulating the engine/flowmeter combination, along with a window showing the current values. Then it is trivial to connect this module to the 8051 module and just sit back and watch the result.

Another, more trivial example is a multiplexed display/keyboard combination (in my case, selecting one of four 8-segment LCD displays). Instead of watching the port bits, why not create a module that shows the output graphically as four displays?

In addition to these possibilities, cereal offers breakpoints, watches, evaluate/modify dialog (which can solve 2 * x + 1 = 5). The KDE GUI also can be extended using KParts (8051 interface is provided as a KParts plugin).

Also included is a command interface usable for creating testsuites for your programs (or for cereal itself - cereal has over 400 tests in its testsuite), and a simple 8051 disassembler.

GnomeBoyAdvance is a GNOME frontend for the Visual Boy Advance emulator.

All the options of VisualBoyAdvance are graphically configurable and stored using Gconf.

The controls are configurable with a pressing on the wished key or joystick button.

You can easily manage your roms collection and associate a screenshot to each game.

J-Nix provides everything the home user needs, and as little else as possible. This makes J-Nix more secure, faster to run, faster to install.

The things the home user needs are

* browser,
* email,
* chat,
* word processor,
* spreadsheet program,
* presentation program.

Mozilla and Open Office do these well, better than Microsoft does and with incredibly fewer vulnerabilituies to hackers, worms and viruses.,

We took a lot of material only of interest to programmers OUT.

Then we made it as easy as possible to use the first time. Insert the CD and one boots to a pleasant screen ready to browse, email, instant message or look at news. We used through Mozilla (FireFox) for most of the web and Gaim for instant messaging.

We took out compilers, seven different text editors, web servers, email servers, several emulators, and localization except for US English.

We took out almost 200 M bytes from the CD, and a Gig from the hard drive space used.

We left in the system tools for getting packages, apt and kpackage so a web savvy user can add in any package they need.

Easier to start with. Easy to add what you need. What could be better?

PHPterm is a terminal/shell emulator for PHP which lets you execute shell commands just like in a shell, but all within your browser window over the HTTP protocol.

It aims to provide the look and feel of konsole, the KDE terminal.

Wolvix is a GNU/Linux LiveCD built from SLAX. Wolvix is a desktop oriented distribution made to fit the needs from regular to advanced desktop users.

Along with the applications youll get some of the best free Linux games. (No 3D gfx card required).

Games Edition features over 50 games in different categories, four emulators and quite a few desktop applications.

You wont find World of Warcraft or Half-Life 2 on the CD, but Ive tried to include some of the finest free Linux games and I think there should be a game or two for most people, Ive even added dopewars for your grandma.

None of the games require 3D drivers, so you should be able to play most games on any graphics card

QTVBA project is a graphical frontend to the VisualBoyAdvance Nintendo Gameboy Advance Emulator.
Main features:
- dual screenshot handling
- save game information
- number and last date played recording
- a built in ROM renamer
- compatibility with GBA-Shells screenshot formats and indexing

Bristol is an emulator for diverse existing synthesisers and organs. Currently, ten are implemented and a mixer is under development.
Bristol Audio software consists of an audio engine and an associated photo realistic graphical user interface called Brighton.
You may also want to chown/chmod bin/bristolengine to suid root, to allow it to use low latency scheduling. This will reduce audio underruns. You can also consider increasing bufsize and preload to reduce this effect, but this will lead to increased latency. Also, if you are using an SB Live! card with ALSA drivers you may need to configure a bufsize of 2048 (ie. 512 samples), which can be compensated for by reducing preload to 2 or 1.
Bristol will currently run 16 voices on a P-II 450, and this is the default voicecount. You can run any number of simultaneous synths - they all connect to the same engine, they will all run with the same polyphony since the MIDI voice structures allow for dynamic assignment of sounds to voices. You can run with split keyboard (no interface at the moment), layering of multiple synths on a single midi channel, etc. Some of the synths max out my P-II 450 CPU when there is a lot of MIDI activity, notably the DX and Explorer at 16 voices.
You can start different synths with different voicecounts, so you could have a 16 voice hammond, a monophonic minimoog, and a 5 voice prophet running at the same time - the GUI will negotiate the voice allocation requirements with the engine. The first synth you start will create the voice count. Subequent synths can have less than the initial value. If you start a monophonic synth first, you will only have one voice available at any time for all synths. If you layer synths you will reduce your polyphony since the engine will allocate multiple voices per keyed note.
Pressing the single letter q in the GUI will send a quit signal and the app will exit gracefully(?). When the last synths quits the engine will also exit. If you press the single letter p then libbrighton will dump a screenshot to /tmp/ .xpm (in XPM format only).
There is a LOT of debugging sent to stdout. You may want to consider adding redirects to /dev/null in the bin/startBristol script to get rid of it. When the final rev-1 is uploaded most of this will be taken out.
Enhancements:
- The graphics were cleaned up, some bugs were fixed, and work on a pair of Oberheim emulators was started.