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Playstation 3 | Did you know that you can play the really good games on the Playstation 3. In this YouTube video you can see a demonstration of the VICE emulator running on the PS3. For the demonstration the game Nebulus was used.

VirtualC64 0.9.3 | Dirk Hoffmann has released a new version of his VirtualC64 emulator. This emulator can turn your Mac (OS X) into a Commodore C64. New features are: Cheatbox. T64, PRG and P00 as virtual disk, Improved keyboard mapping, More different 1541 roms can be used, Improved CIA emulation, Cartridge support (.crt) and many more. Visit Dirk's web page for all the details.

Fuse 1.0.0.1 | Fuse is a ZX Spectrum emulator for AmigaOS. The 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 Spectrums are emulated accurately. Changes in version 1.0.x: Improvements for the Amiga port for loading files. NTSC Spectrum support. Improved sound output and Fuller Audio Box support.

Janus-UAE v0.8 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for AROS from Oliver Brunners is now available. In this version the following changes: Minimum blit size is now 64 bits, Window border gadgets are now done as AROS gadgets. Fixed a sound and mouse pointer hide bug. Hotkey for the GUI. New load/save configurations and much more.

C64 ITX PC | Stiggy made a slide show of his Commodore C64 ITX PC project. This C64 is built using a 1.6 Atom ITX motherboard and a C64 Keyrah interface. It runs on Windows XP, Gamebase 64 with 17000+ games and the Commodore C64 emulator VICE.

FPGAArcade Replay | MikeJ has finished the first series of his FPGAArcade Replay. The Replay is a re-configurable computer that makes it possible to emulate an game console, arcade machine or computer like the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64 etc. The Replay has an ARM processor, FPGA, SD card, DVI connector, joystick, keyboard, mouse, video and audio connector. You can read more about this project on MikeJ's web page.

AmiArcadia - v15.1 | AmiArcadia is a emulator of early game consoles like the PHUNSY, Elektor TV Games Computer, Interton VC 4000, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Central Data 2650 and others. Ami Arcadia is available for the 68k Amiga, Amiga OS4, MorphOS and Windows. Changes in this version are: Improved PHUNSY emulation. SAVEAOF command added in Debugger. And many miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. The emulator supports multiple languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Hoxs64 v1.0.6.1 | David Horrocks released a new version of his Hoxs64 emulator. In this version: Adjusted $D011 and $D016 for pixel exact output. Improved keyboard matrix emulation. Adjusted VIC light-pen and CIA6526A IRQ timing. Adjusted audio sync. Please visit the web page for more information.

WinUAE 2.3.0 | There is a new version of WinUAE available. With WinUAE you can emulate the Amiga 68k on your Windows PC. A few examples of the changes in this version (2.3.0) are: CDTV and CD32 CD+G audio CDs support. Borderless/minimal/normal window modes. SCSI emulation, including full CD audio support. Cycle exact audio and disk DMA sequencer. Improvements of the 68000, 68020 and 68040 MMU emulation. Please visit the web page of WinUAE to read about all the changes.

GnGeoNG v0.8.0 | GnGeoNG is a fast and powerful command line Neo Geo emulator for Amiga OS4. Neo Geo is a cartridge based game computer for arcade halls and for home use. The Neo Geo has a Motorola 68000 processor (12 MHz), Zilog Z80 processor (4 MHz) and dedicated video / audio chips. The Neo Geo has a resolution of 320x224 pixels, 4096 colors (65536 pallet), 380 sprites and 15 channels of audio.

YAPE 1.0 | The Commodore Plus/4 emulator YAPE celebrates it's 10 year anniversary. In the latest version (v1.0) the following changes: 32-bit and automatic bit-depth option in full-screen mode. Copy and paste to/from the clipboard now respects upper/lower case mode. Partially implemented 48 bps mode of the T6721A speech LSI. G64 image support improved. Reading from open address space. And many bug fixes for the drive, TED, auto-start, monitor etc.

WinUAE 2.2.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator WinUAE is now available. In this new version the following: Game Ports and Input GUI update, 1G Chip RAM support, 7zip SDK updated, Triple/Double/No buffering option added to GUI, WASAPI and PortAudio volume control support and more. Visit the web page for all the details.

Hoxs64 v1.0.6.0 | David Horrocks released an update of his Commodore 64 emulator. The changes are: More settings options CIA6526(A). Improved the VIC emulation for an pixel exact output. Adjusted IRQ DMA behaviour. Restore key bug fixed. Optimised the DirectX video device creation. Many corrections of the VIC emulation. Added light pen IRQ re-trigger behaviour. The new version can be downloaded from David's web page.

PSPUAE v0.80 beta3 | FOL has released a new version of his Amiga emulator for the Sony PSP. He recently added AGA support to PSPUAE and now he made a version available for the PSPGo. He also added support for the HalfByte Loader. The eboot can also be used on older PSP's.

Emu64 V4.30 | Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator Emu64. A few examples of the changes in version (4.30) are: PAL video emulation/configuration, VIC configuration, REU 2MB Ram, EasyFlash, Gamebase V7.0, CPU logging and much more. Visit the Emu64 forum (German Language) for more information.

PUAE 2.1.00 | GnoStiC (Mustafa Tufan) has started working on the PUAE Amiga emulator. The original (E-UAE) was developed by Richard Drummond and is an Amiga emulator for Unix based computers such as Linux and Mac OS-X. You can visit the web page for more details and for downloading the sources.

WinUAE 2.1.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator for Windows is available. In version 2.1.0 the following changes: CDTV/CD32 CD image file support, including audio tracks. Direct 3D rewrite. A1000 Agnus vblank bug emulated. Multidisk image selection helper. Parallel port sound sampler emulated. Many improvements on 68000 cycle-exact instructions. Visit the web page of WinUAE for all the details.

YAPE v0.86 | Gaia released an update of his Plus/4 emulator YAPE. In this version support for memory watch points (read, write, execute). Auto detect for best full screen mode, overall speed improvement and a couple of bugs removed.

CCS64 v3.8 | Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore C64 emulator. Advantages over previous versions: Multiplay over Internet, windowed mode, more screen resolutions, increased compatibility, more Windows friendly, integrated HardSID support. The CCS64 emulator can be used with Windows 98 to Windows 7 with DirectX 9.0.

Icaros Desktop 1.2.1 | Paolo Besser has made a new Icaros Deskltop available. In this version: Files system updated, .backdrop support, User-customizable pointer, Improved 68K apps integration with Janus-UAE 0.6, 3D hardware support for GeForce cards, OWB v1.0 rc2, WookieChat update, SabreMSN v0.67, YAM 2.6, HDAudio chipsets and Envy24T audio boards support, Network support on iMica and compatible systems.

Yape 0.85 | A new version of the PLus/4 emulator YAPE is available for download. In this version: Non-overlay based TV/display emulation, which is now the default one when using GDI for screen rendering. Other changes are bug fixes. (Monitor, video recording and TED.)

UAE4Droid | Manuel Schreiber is working on a Amiga emulator for the Andriod Operating System from Google. The emulator is still in development and has a few bugs. At the moment the emulator is working on the G1 and the Motorola Milestone. Visit Manuel's blog (German language) to check the progress on UAE4Droid.

JavaScript Commodore 64 Emulator | jsc64 is a Commodore 64 emulator written in JavaScript by Tim de Koning. It's a port of the FC64, the Commodore 64 emulator written in Actionscript by Darron Schall and Claus Wahlers. This emulator is meant as a 'proof of concept' and uses the HTML5 Canvas-element to render the Commodore 64 screen layout. It will work on all modern browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

VICE v2.2 | VICE is a emulator for the 8-bit Commodore computers. It can be used on many platforms: Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, Mac OS X, AROS64, QNX 4.x, HPUX, Atari Mint, Solaris Express and SkyOS. New features in version 2.2 are: Improved: C128 VDC, VIC-20 and PAL emulation. ReSID's resampler has been optimized. SFX Sound Sampler and SFX Sound Expander emulation. Added: EasyFlash, Digibooster SID, Mega-Cart, Final Expansion cartridge, paddle, lightpen/lightgun emulation, userport joystick adapters.

WinUAE v2.0.0 | A new version of the Amiga emulator is now available. In this release the following new features: Improvement an the A500 and unexpanded A1200/CD32 emulation. A2065 ethernet card emulation. Old game protection dongles emulated (Leaderboard, Robocop3, etc..) Full NTSC timing implemented. Single sided PC/Atari ST disk images supported. AVI and wave sound recording improved and much more.

Yape 0.84 | There is a update of the Plus/4 emulator Yape available: Implemented a simple assembler in the external monitor. Tape head adjust dialog for wave samples. Optionally invert tape sample input signal. Tape fast forward and rewind in 15 sec steps. TAP's with non-native encoding now supported (C64, VIC20 frequencies) and bugfixes (sound, tape).

Hoxs64 | This time a small update for a bug that gives problems if you use the emulator more than 73 minutes. Hoxs64 is a Commodore 64 emulator made by David Horrocks. The goal of Hoxs64 is to accurately emulate the Commodore 64 computer. Features: A cycle based CPU, VIC, CIA and SID.

ICU 64 | Mathfigure has been working on a visual debugger for the Commodore C64. The debugger is available for the Frodo and the VICE emulator. The debugger will let you look at and change the memory of the emulator while running a program.
You can watch a YouTube video with a demonstration of ICU 64 on Mathfigure's web page.

C64 on the iPhone (not) | For 3 days there was a iPhone application available to emulate the C64 on the iPhone. But some people discovered that you could activate the original BASIC. And Apple decided to remove the app. The developer Manomio has now made a version without BASIC and will try to get it approved again by Apple.

Hatari 1.3.0 | For AmigaOS 4 there is a new version available of Atari ST /STE emulator. Hatari emulates most of the ST / STE hardware including joysticks and hard disk images. Hatari is also available for: Linux, Apple, BSD, Windows and BeOS. Visit the Hatari web page for all the details.

Hoxs64 - v1.0.5.27 | David Horrocks released an update of his Commodore 64 emulator. This time the following changes: Option to enable/disable opposing joystick directions. Speed optimisation to the CPU, CIA and VIC. The emulation is noticeable faster on lines with no DMA fetches and no IRQs. Bug fix to the reverse keyboard matrix. Accurate emulation of the $DD00 VIC bank switch bug. David is now working on the debugger.

Emu64 v4.20 | Thorsten Kattanek released version 4.20 of his Commodore C64 emulator. New in this version: GameBase64 interface with search. Disk drive sound is improved, disk swap is recognized. A virtual keyboard is implemented. Stereo SID is now available. Speed control for the emulator. Visit the Emu64 forum for all the details.

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