Open Source C Emulators

A multi-system emulator written in C#. As well as quality-of-life features for casual players, it also has recording/playback and debugging tools, making it the first choice for TASers (Tool-Assisted Speedrunners). Screenshotting and recording audio + video to file. Firmware management, input, framerate, and more in a HUD over the game. Rebindable hotkeys for controlling the frontend (keyboard+mouse+gamepad). A comprehensive input mapper for the emulated gamepads and other peripherals. Programmatic control over core and frontend with Lua or C#.NET. Development builds are made automatically whenever someone contributes. Because of this, we recommend using a release for work that requires stability (such as TASing), and only switching to a dev build if there's a specific change or addition you need.

The Bitdefender disassembler is a highly optimized, lightweight x86/x64 instruction decoder designed for security, reverse engineering, and low-level systems analysis. It focuses on decoding machine instructions with high precision while providing detailed metadata about each instruction, including operands, access modes, CPU flags, and feature requirements. Unlike many disassemblers, bddisasm is built with zero dynamic memory allocation and no external dependencies, making it extremely portable and suitable for constrained environments such as kernels, hypervisors, and embedded systems. The project also includes a companion component called bdshemu, which provides a minimal instruction emulator capable of analyzing shellcode-like behavior in a controlled environment. Its performance is a key strength, achieving millions of decoded instructions per second while maintaining thread safety and deterministic behavior.

gpsim is an open sourced simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers. It supports all three families of PICs: 12-bit, 14-bit, and 16-bit cores. See also gputils http://gputils.sourceforge.net/

kvm, or kernel-based virtual machine, is a device driver and userspace component for Linux that utilizes hardware virtualization extensions such as Intel's VT to create virtual machines running on a Linux host.

This emulator is capable of providing a faithful replication of the HP48. It also has a debugger for the saturn processor.

TilEm is an emulator for the Z80 series of Texas Instruments graphing calculators. It supports all of the existing models in this series (TI-73, TI-76.fr, TI-81, TI-82, TI-83, TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, TI-85, and TI-86.) TilEm features detailed emulation of all aspects of the calculator hardware, and includes a debugger for writing assembly programs.

uCON64 is a tool to backup all kinds of video games. It supports almost every available backup unit for cartridge-based consoles and performs many other tasks like ROM hacking.

Unicorn is a lightweight multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework. Highlight features. Multi-architectures: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, RISC-V, S390x (SystemZ), SPARC, TriCore & x86 (include x86_64). Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API. Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Pharo, Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Haskell, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, D, Lua, JavaScript, .NET, Delphi/Pascal & MSVC available. Native support for Windows & *nix (with macOS, Linux, Android, *BSD & Solaris confirmed). High performance by using the Just-In-Time compiler technique. Support fine-grained instrumentation at various levels. Thread-safe by design. Distributed under free software license GPLv2. Another significant change on this version is the addition of some new APIs to allow better control on how the core engine works.

Virtual T is a TRS-80 Model 100/102/200 emulator that runs on Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. The goal of Virtual T is to provide 100% hardware emulation so any existing programs will run. It also adds powerful development and debugging tools.

Portable emulator for Pokémon-Mini. Last version: 0.60 (16 June 2015) Check Wiki for platform dependencies and other information.

1964 is a popular Nintendo64 Emulator for Windows. With the right plugins, you can play almost any Nintendo64 game on your PC.

SkyEye is a very fast full system simulator which takes llvm as IR of dynmic compiled framework.. It can simulate series ARM, Coldfire,Mips, Powerpc, Sparc, x86, TI DSP and Blackfin DSP Processor. Also can simulate multicore system by the multicore of host. The commercial support is provided by DigiProto Co. (http://www.digiproto.com)

OpenGLide is a Glide to OpenGL wrapper. It emulates a Voodoo board so you can run old Windows Glide games by translating Glide calls into OpenGL. The CVS code moved to https://github.com/fcbarros/openglide.

MicroLua brings the programming language Lua on the Nintendo DS for easy and fast development of beautiful homebrews! Based on brunni's µLibrary, µLua is a Lua interpreter featuring fast drawings and many important functionalities. You can exploit your Nintendo DS with the simplistic yet powerful Lua language! On your cartridge, MicroLua is a NDS executable that shows as its frontend a great graphical shell from which you can explore your cartridge and run Lua scripts written for µLua. µLua already benefits from an impressive collection of homebrews, from a complete and expandable MicroLua IDE to enjoyable games, produced by an active and helpful community.

ATasm is a 6502 command-line cross-assembler that is compatible with the original Mac/65 macro assembler released by OSS software. The aim of ATasm is to provide Atari home-brew coders with a comfortable and powerful toolset.

vmdkutil is a utility to manage VMware sparse virtual disk files (.vmdk), creating, cloning, merging, etc.

This project is for the portable computer "Cambridge Z88", produced by Sir Clive Sinclair (of ZX Spectrum fame). We continue to support software development (ROM, 3rd party apps on memory cards and desktop applications). We have moved to https://cambridgez88.jira.com/wiki (development, source code and documentation). However, we continue to publish files for download here.

GXemul is a full-system computer emulator, emulating processors (ARM, MIPS, M88K, PowerPC, and SuperH) and surrounding peripherals, in some cases well enough to let unmodified guest operating systems run as if they were running on real hardware.

A portable library and tools for archiving images of tapes with Atari 8-bit computer software. Provides a common interface for loading and saving tape images in various formats. Designed for use by emulators and Atari<->PC communication software.

QToaster is a simple app that executes QEMU with proper command line parameters (a frontend). The features are pretty basic, the executable is small and is a portable application. I needed something to automate QEMU quickly operate fast without having to worry about setting things up. I just wanted to get moving fast. It is designed just for that. It will keep your last machine settings and reload them from the .ini files that it creates. The main purpose I needed this for is Android - using Limbo. If something works on QEMU then it has a good chance of working on Android. You don't need to put QEMU in your environment path, just point to its base folder. It doesn't need any special runtimes (java, .net, Python, etc.), it only needs the utility file Lutil.dll. Frontend was made for: http://69.170.215.148/nothoro/software/QTPage/QToaster.html QEMU emulator version 6.0.0-rc2 available at: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/w64/2021/ When you run the installer, it will extract to a subfld

The user-mode kernel port is a port of the Linux kernel which runs in a set of processes. The result is a user-mode virtual machine and a kernel which can be debugged and developed using all of the usual process-level tools.

Tiny8051 is small 8051 microcontroller simulator written in C#. Project was created for educational purposes, to show how µP works by using clean visual interface and debugging. Note: communication over serial port was not implemented, because there was no demand for it.

ZASM is a 2 pass assembler for Zilog's 8-bit CPU Z80. Supported platforms: Unix-style OS, e.g. MacOS X, Linux, BSD. Special support for ZX Spectrum emulator file formats. Binary or intel hex file output.

Sarien is a portable implementation of the Sierra On-Line Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI), and is able to run games such as Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards and Space Quest I and II.

A Zilog Z80 simulator, debugger and profiler tailored for ZX Spectrum development (but generic enough to be used with other platforms)