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MAME v0.263 Updated

Andrew Lee on 14 Mar 2024
  • 531MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Feb 2024
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a hardware emulator that enables you to play many ancient, long-lost mostly arcade games and even some newer ones.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mame64.exe.

Note: This is just the emulator. You need ROMs which are the actual games to play. You can find a few on MAME's homepage, but you'll need to search online for game ROMs. Put game files in the "roms" directory of MAME, then launch MAME.
What's new? See: https://www.mamedev.org/
Latest comments
a on 2011-02-01 02:16

latest version is 0.141

Wolfghost on 2011-02-01 18:10

>a Updated ;)

bitcoin on 2019-03-28 17:47

brings back good memories - Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, etc

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FCEUX v2.6.5

lwc on 5 May 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 7 Feb 2023
  • Suggested by PowerCat

FCEUX is a games emulator for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom, Famicom Disk System (FDS), and Dendy. It supports NTSC (USA/JPN), PAL (European), and NTSC-PAL Hybrid modes.

Note that to actually play any game with FCEUX you will need ROM images in one of the supported formats, not included with the download.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch fceux.exe
What's new? See:
https://fceux.com/web/version.html
Latest comments
ChemZ on 2011-04-29 15:05

This program is now called FCEUX, and version is at 2.1.4a (older version still available on website).

"The concept behind FCEUX is to merge elements from FCEU Ultra, FCEU rerecording, FCEUXD, FCEUXDSP, FCEUXDSP CE, and FCEU-mm into a single branch of FCEU."

http://fceux.com/web/home.html

Not sure about portability though...

Loner on 2012-04-19 17:46

For those of us who check these pages every day to see whats new, this program isn't categorized but from what I've read, I "assume" its a game. The description is very vague to those of us uninitiated.

thepiney on 2012-04-19 22:24

It's really not a game but an emulator similar to Mame and others. You add ROM files and you can play older games on your PC. In this case it's an emulator for NES and Famicom based games.

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Stella v6.7

lwc on 27 Jul 2022
  • 13MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Jun 2022
  • Suggested by Magibon

Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator, allowing you to play Atari 2600 games.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Stella.exe from inside the 32-bit or the 64-bit folder with the argument:
Stella.exe -baseinappdir
OR
Stella.exe -basedir configfolder (replace configfolder with a name of your choice).
What's new? See:
https://stella-emu.github.io/changelog.html

Kawaks v1.65

billon on 5 Feb 2020
  • 736KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 1 May 2016
  • Suggested by Fluffy

Kawaks is an emulator for two arcade systems: Capcom's CPS1/CPS2 and SNK's Neo-Geo. The program includes per-ROM control setup, a variety of different display and sound options, netplay capabilities, demo recording, and more.

Note: To actually play any game with Kawaks, you will need the proper ROM zips. Neo-Geo support requires additional BIOS roms.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application Folder
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package with multi-volume 7z package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch WinKawaks.exe.
What's new? See:
http://cps2shock.emu-france.info/
Latest comments
jade on 2010-12-07 13:45

dowload dont work

I am Baas on 2010-12-07 14:36

@jade
Entry updated, thanks.

bitcoin on 2020-02-05 14:29

apparently is at v1.65 now

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DOSBox v0.74-3

lwc on 1 Apr 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Jun 2019
  • Suggested by Rob Loach

DOSBox emulates an Intel x86 PC, complete with sound, graphics, mouse, modem etc. that are necessary for running many old DOS programs and games incompatible with any modern OS.

Alternatively, Portable DOSBox is also available.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No
Unicode support: No
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract using an extractor (like 7-Zip) to a folder of your choice
  2. [Optional] Delete uninstall.exe
  3. Create an empty file called dosbox.conf
  4. When run from another folder, launch DOSBox.exe -conf "[application folder]\dosbox.conf"
What's new? See:
https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/news/
Latest comments
Smurflover on 2011-02-01 14:10

Frontend and easier config can be found here http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/

a on 2011-02-01 19:54

Smurf, that looks sweet, if it is portable I suggest this be added to database. (possibly as a replacement?)

There's a note:
D-Fend Reloaded may be installed in a portable operation mode (for USB-Sticks etc.).

My eyes lit up when I read that.

SYSTEM on 2011-07-17 09:39

I have updated the extraction instructions. Chris Morgan had pointed out that DOSBox is not portable if launched without any command-line switches.

http://portableapps.chrismorgan.info/irc/logs/?t=2011-07-16#T16-58-39

Thanks Chris. :)

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D-Fend Reloaded v1.4.4

lwc on 12 Mar 2019

The program provides an easy, graphical environment for DOSBox (which runs a wide variety of DOS-based games on and programs modern hardware), helping with the management of program details such as configuration and tweaking.

The program also includes helpful configuration files and pre-sets for a variety of popular DOS games.
DOSBox is included in the installation.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract:
  1. Download and run the installer
  2. Select "Custom installation" and then "Portable mode" in the installer and extract to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch DFend.exe
Note: A PortableApps.com installer is also available. On the Download page, look in the "Other packages" section under "Other installation packages."
What's new?
  • All path names in conf files stored in archive files are made relaltive.
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2014-04-02 22:37

Great tool! Using it now I can play my favourite DOS game BlockOut by California Dreams on my Widnows 8 system.

smaragdus on 2014-07-01 08:25

D-Fend Reloaded 1.4.0 is out.

Checker on 2014-07-01 14:41

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

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Simplified Virtual Floppy Drive v2.1

lwc on 27 Jul 2022
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Jul 2011
  • Suggested by blackvisionit

Simplified Virtual Floppy Drive (VFD) mounts image files (*.img) as new browseable computer resources. View, edit, rename, delete, create, or launch files on a virtual floppy as well as format.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Dependencies: Administrator rights
Stealth: ? No
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch vfdwin.exe.

Qemu Manager v7.0

Midas on 6 Mar 2021
  • 34MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 10 Jul 2011
  • Suggested by Pim Borst

Qemu Manager is an interface for QEMU that makes it easy to understand and use for average users. It provides facilities for configuring, running and managing virtual machines and the associated storage, peripherals and devices.

QEMU is a processor emulator that allows VMWare-style virtual machines, enabling users to run another operating system inside, including Windows and Linux. Using a technique called "dynamic translation" QEMU can virtualize different system architectures including PowerPC, S390, and more.

Category:
Runs on:WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL v2
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch QemuManager.exe
  3. Open qemumanager.exe.manifest with a text editor and delete the tag <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2"> along with its content (this way Qemu Manager doesn't request elevation when launched under Windows Vista/7)
Administrator rights are required for KQEMU Accelerator support, and if you don't want to leave any trace on the host machine, you must uninstall the driver upon exit.
Latest comments
Peter202 on 2013-08-10 17:55

Download link not working.

Napiophelios on 2013-08-14 02:16

@Peter202 : The author's website is gone too but Download.com (cnet) has it still.

http://download.cnet.com/Qemu-Manager/3000-2094_4-75451507.html

Just dont use the big green "Download Now" button,
click the "direct download" link below it.

Midas on 2021-03-06 18:08

Webpage gone: links redirected to Archive.org and Cnet.com. Installer and SigCheck report zipped and mirrored to "Qemu_Manager_v7.0.zip" at https://mir.cr/0ZSCQV8E.

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MobaLiveCD v2.1

Midas on 6 Mar 2021
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 8 Nov 2009
  • Suggested by spacemonkey

A simple graphical frontend for QEMU that lets you boot any LiveCD ISO image in a virtual machine without complicated settings in only a few clicks.

QEMU is a processor emulator that provides you with VMWare-style virtual machines using a technique called "dynamic translation" that gives good performance.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? No. Writes to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and installs kqemu driver where administrator rights is available.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch MobaLiveCD_v2.1.exe.
What's new?
  • Added USB boot support. You can now test your bootable USB drive (made with grub4dos, syslinux or other bootloaders) through emulation.
  • Updated qemu to the latest version for a better support of all new Linux distributions and Windows versions.

(Cf. https://www.mobatek.net/mobalivecd_changelog.txt)
Latest comments
Wiz on 2011-04-26 18:14

Tried it today on WinXP SP3 PC with a Kingston 4 GB USB flash drive and a Linux image for eeePC. The experience was horrible. I choose to not create a virtual disk (in belief that all would be done in RAM). After the Linux image start execution my brand new USB was corrupted, no data, not readable in Windows. After formatting it reports only 0.9 GB instead of 4 GB. I have rescued it using some low level utility and make an experiment in order to know is the corruption caused by MobaLiveCD v2.1 or not. After the booted image reports disk writing immediately USB stick LED indicates a writing operation and the stick became corrupted again. What if someone starts such utility from HDD? Did my experience mean that this tool can corrupt HDD too?

Roshan on 2011-05-07 15:38

Wiz may b yr pen drive is faulty. Try to format it with hp usb format utility. Mobalive does not boot 64bit linux. Pity. I downloaded centos n mepis x64 but no use. Both the live images r not booting thru usb also. Can anyone help in this regard.

Midas on 2013-01-29 15:42

Dedoimedo review @ http://dedoimedo.com/computers/mobatek.html

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