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Multiple Classic Computer Platform (MCC) | A new FPGA product is in development. The FPGA board can emulate classic computers from Commodore, Atari, Sinclair and Amiga. At the moment the Commodore 64 / 1541 core is finished. The FPGA makes it possible to improve the C64, for example: 48x42 16 colors sprites, 16 MHz 6510, double SID etc.

Hoxs64 - v1.0.5.26 | A new version of Hoxs64 is available. Hoxs64 is a Commodore 64 emulator made by David Horrocks and can be used on a Windows 2K/XP/Vista Computer. In this version: In the FDI file format reader is a bug removed. The 1541 emulation is improved. Raster and IRQ behavior of the VIC-II is more accurate. A small error in the joystick emulation is removed.

Amiga Forever 2009 | Cloanto released the 2009 version of Amiga Forever. There are 3 different versions available: Value Edition, Plus Edition and the Premium edition. Depending on the version you get: Amiga emulator with 1.3 or 3x roms, Amiga Explorer software, videos and games. Visit the web page for all the details.

C64 emulator for iPhone rejected | A C64 emulator is developed for the iPhone, but it was rejected by Apple. At the moment developer Manomio is working hard to iron out the kinks with Apple's approval system. Read all the details on the Pocket Gamers web page.

WinUAE 1.6.1 | A new version of the Amiga emulator is now available. In this release the following new features: Added disk image and configuration file icons, file extension association improved. Added button/key toggle mode to Input panel. Also a number of bugs were fixed such as the Magic mouse and the Gzip decompression. For more details visit the WinUAE web page.

VICE PSP v2.2.21 | Akop Karapetyan released the VICE emulator for the Sony PlayStation Portable. A virtual keyboard is included in this version of VICE. The emulator and the source code can be downloaded from Akop's web page.

GenesisPlus - AmigaOS 4 | GenesisPlus is very compatible and accurate Sega Genesis/MegaDrive emulator. Thanks to the emulator, the Sega consoles only games like Ristar, Sonic The Hedgehog, Streets of Rage can be played on the Amiga. The emulator features full-screen support, Amiga Joystick recognition, automatic recognition of cartridge type, automatic decompression of zip compressed cartridges, turbo mode and save states support.

C64 Forever | Cloanto has released a new package called C64 Forever. Many people will know Cloanto from the Amiga Forever series, and now they have made the step towards the Commodore 8-bit machines. C64 Forever is a complete emulator package included many games and demos. Some of the features are: PET / CBM, VIC-20, Plus/4, C64 and C128 emulation. 200 pre-installed games and demos. Database with info about 5000 C64 games. RP2 support. Auto update for the emulator.

Yape 0.83 | A new version of the Plus/4 emulator is available. In this version the following changes: SID card DigiBlaster (8bit DAC) support. Immediate exit on pressing F12 now optional. Separate version for Win9x / NT machines. Occasional GCR data corruption problem fixed. The new version can be downloaded from Attila's web page.

CCS64 V3.7 | Per Håkan Sundell released a new version of his Commodore 64 emulator. In version 3.7 the following is changed: The cursor up / left are now emulated with SHIFT down / right. Number of joystick is now 16 and auto fire can be switched off. Via the Joystick Calibration screen almost any joystick can be mapped. Sprites in the side border with NTSC is now fixed. You can download the latest version of CCS64 on Per's web page.

Yape 0.82 | A new version of YAPE is available. In this release a couple of bug fixed and performance improvement. The changes are: Emulator optimization (up to 30% speed increase). Improved the tape system. Bug solved in the CPU level of the 1551. XP/Vista theme support restored. Solved a TED idle cycle read inaccuracy. The Plus/4 emulator can be downloaded from Attila's web page.

Emu64 - v4.10 | Thorsten Kattanek released a new version of his Emu64 emulator. Emu64 is a Commodore 64 emulator for Windows. This emulators emulates the C64, 1541-II and the 1530. Besides the emulator there are also many tools included: Quick Freeze, SID dump, Debugger, 2 pass Cross assembler, SID player and LAN64. With LAN64 you can transfer data from your PC to your C64 with a special cable. Emu64 is freeware and is available for Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

VirtualC64 | VirtualC64 is a C64 emulator for a Mac with OSX 10.5. This emulator is an open source project and it's written in C++. You can download the emulator but you have to provide the ROMs yourself.

SMSPlus | SMSPlus is a Sega Master System (SMS) and Game Gear (GG) emulator for Amiga OS4. The SMS is a 8-bit game console developed by Sega in 1986. The GG is a portable hand-held console developed by Sega in 1990. This emulator supports all the hardware features of the consoles, all the video modes, the sound generator and has save states support.

AmigaSYS 4 - Xbox version | AmigaSYS 4 is now available for the Xbox. The AmigaSYS is a fully pre-configured AmigaOS system. To install, you'll need an original AmigaOS CD. The AmigaSYS pack contains every important program, which could be required by the user. Besides the Xbox version the SYS 4 package is also available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, Linux, MacOS, PDA and Windows.

Yape 0.81 | A new version of Yape is available for download. In this version of the Plus/4 emulator the following changes: CPU watch frame in monitor window. File association via the menu now works under Vista. Solved sound reset problem for save states. Ironed out a joystick set-up bug. A few bugs fixed when recording to tape. There is also a 64-bit Windows version available.

KEGS | KEGS is a emulator of the Apple IIgs computer, running on many different platforms, including the Amiga. KEGS emulates the 65816 processor, 5.25 and 3.5 disk-drives, Apple II sound and all Apple IIgs graphics modes. Keyboard, mouse and joystick are supported.
For KEGS you need Amiga OS 4.x and the ROM images from an Apple IIgs.

VICE v2.1 | A new version of VICE, the Commodore 8-bit emulator, is available. The most important change is that now the C64 DTV is supported.
C64 changes: Added isepic and Double Quick Brown Box cartridge emulation.
VIC20 changes: Improved the sound and VIC emulation.
C64DTV changes: New emulator.
Unix changes: PAL Emulation fixed and improved. MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. MS-Windows changes: MIDI cartridge emulation for x128, x64 and xvic. RS232 can use real devices now.

VmwAROS v1.0 | Version 1.0 of your AROS distribution has been released. WmwAROS is a pre-configured AROS desktop environment available in two formats: a bootable live-DVD installable on the hard drive, and a disk image for VMware. The AROS Research Operating System is a open source lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level, while improving on it in many areas.

FUSE 0.10.0 | Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) was a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix. But, it has now also been ported to Mac OS X, Windows, AmigaOS and MorphOS. The 16K, 48K, 128K, +2, +2A and +3 Spectrums are emulated accurately. For AmigaOS there is a version available made by Chris Young and Q-Master made a version for MorphOS.

Miggy | Miggy is an Amiga emulator written in Java. The emulator is not finished yet but you can follow the progress at the blog of Tone. With the current version it is possible to run the 68000 processor on 64 MHz.

Minus4j v1.4 | There is a new version of the Minus4j Java based emulator. Mike Dailly released version 1.4 with the following changes: Updated rendering engine and CPU processing. Added FLASH attribute. Also there are a few errors fixed with this version.

Hyper64 | Hyper64 is an experimental C64 emulator. This emulator doesn't change the 6510 machine code into bits of code that are handled by the CPU of a modern PC. Instead it disassembles, analyzes and re-assembles the 6510 machine code as native 32-bit x86 code. For example the A, X and Y registers of the 6510 are mapped to the x86 AL, BL and CL registers. This makes it a very fast emulator but the side-effect is that it is not cycle exact. You can download this emulator from the web page of micro64.

Atari++ (AmigaOS 4) | Atari++ is an emulator of the Atari 8 bit computers and the Atari 5200 game console. The 8 bit Atari computers were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The emulator does precise cycle emulation, precise sound emulation, emulation of wide range of disk interfaces and joysticks. The Atari++ emulator can be used with AmigaOS 4.

DGen 1.24 for AmigaOS 4 | DGen is an emulator of the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive consoles. The Genesis/MegaDrive had a 68000 processor at 7.6 MHz and was direct competitor of the Amiga. Ventzislav Tzvetkov converted DGen to Amiga OS4. With DGen you can play 95% of all Genesis/MegaDrive games on your Amiga. For more details visit the web page of Ventzislav.

XRoar (Amiga) | XRoar is an emulator for the Dragon and Tandy computers. The emulator can be used with Amiga OS 4.0, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Nintendo DS and the GP32. The Dragon and Tandy are 8-bit computers based on the 6809 CPU. They were produced in the early 80's.

plus4emu 1.2.9 | Istvan Varga made more improvements to his Plus/4 emulator (Linux, MacOS and Windows). Added MPS-801 printer emulation. More accurate PAL emulation in OpenGL mode. LED display for drive emulation. ROM images are now included. There are several bugs fixed. You can download the emulator from Istvan's web page.

plus4emu 1.2.8 | Istvan Varga released a couple of updates last month for his Plus/4 emulator. The plus4emu is an open source emulator of the C16, C116, and Plus/4. The program is written in C++, and supporting Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. A few of the changes are: Fixed file overwrite bug. New option for saving the printer output to a text file. New set of Windows icons (by SVS).

WinUAE 1.5.1 | The popular Amiga emulator for Windows has had a major bug fix update. Besides bug fixes there are also a couple of improvement. Added support for Direct3D pixel shader filters. Window resize enabled in windowed mode (chipset mode). Easier USB mouse/joystick insert/removal. Visit the web page for all detail and to download the new version.

VICE 2.0 | VICE is a emulator for almost all 8-bit Commodore computers. It can be used on many platforms. Besides versions for Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Win32, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, BeOS, QNX 6.x, Amiga, GP2X, or Mac OS X there are now also versions for AROS64, QNX 4.x, HPUX, Atari Mint, Solaris Express and SkyOS. New features in version 2.0 are: More precise PAL emulation with double size and double scan. Action Replay 4, StarDos, NEOS and Amiga mouse support for the C64. Many bug fixes for all emulated computers. VICE can be downloaded from the VICE web page.

OS4Emu - 2.0 | Amigazeux made version 2.0 of the OS4EMu for Morph OS available. This emulator for MorphOS 1.4 / 2.0 makes it possible to run Amiga OS4 programs on your MorphOS system. There is a list where you can see what programs are working. In this version: Enhanced newlib.library. Implementation of 64bit DOS, Exec and Picasso96 functionality. Improved general compatibility. Fixed ELF loader. AltiVec is supported only in MorphOS 2.

WinUAE 1.5.0 | There is a new version of the Amiga emulator. There are many new features and improvements: Better Picasso96 emulation. PCMCIA SRAM card emulation. Multithreaded AVI recording. Improved Sprite emulation. IDE emulation >128GB support. Added 1.5M Chip RAM. 5.1 sound settings. There are also many bug fixes. You can download the new version from the web page of WinUAE.

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