What emulators do you use?

JustAnotherSaver · 13 January 2019 at 4:39PM

I was looking on YouTube for a bit of memory lane videos.

The old Amstrad CPC 464. The Dizzy games, Renegade, Peter Pack Rat etc.

Made me think about looking in to playing these again on the PC as i know you can get emulators for this kind of thing. Back when i had an Amstrad the joystick was the controller. What do you guys use now? Just keyboard controls or do you have some other input device for it?

And what are you emulating? I guess some will be doing the Amstrad but many will no doubt be playing games from other machines. Just interested to see what others are using out there.

RichL74 · 14 January 2019 at 1:49PM

Mainly just Win UAE an Amiga emulator.

SuperPikachu · 14 January 2019 at 1:58PM

Same on Win UAE cause I wanted to play Outrun and Nebulus.

almillar · 14 January 2019 at 2:02PM

PC - STEem (Atari ST) and umpteen others.

but Android is also full of emulators - Android devices are easily powerful enough to emulate 16 bit stuff. I've played about with some of these so consider it a 'partial personal recommendation.
They work similarly to each other - you need to put the ROMS (the disk/tape/cartridge as a file) into a certain folder for each emulator. You might also need an OS/firmware file for the computer or console.
Controls - this is more difficult. You can connect a USB Mouse and Keybord to most Android devices, with a USB hub and USB A - MicroUSB adaptor, for example. Or of course, bluetooth mouse/keyboard. And again for controllers - you can connect brilliant bluetooth controllers, or tiny cheap ones in you just want to dip your feet. Can be time consuming to set up on each emulator, but way better than on screen controls of course.

Hataroid/SToid - Atari ST
John NES Lite - NES
My Boy! Free - Gameboy Advance/Colour
My Oldboy! Free - Gameboy
Snex 9x EX+ - SNES
Speccy - Spectrum 48k/128k etc.
UAE4droid - Amiga

SuperPikachu · 14 January 2019 at 2:37PM

Some stuff you can just play online nowadays too, pretty much upto Sega Medadrive.

https://classicreload.com/search?search_api_views_fulltext=dizzy

Browniez · 18 April 2019 at 2:37PM

I don't know any other emulator aside DosBox

sleepyjones · 19 April 2019 at 9:48AM

When I did foray into Emulators I used MAME.

Might have to give it another try now that you mention it.

esuhl · 19 April 2019 at 8:09PM

I run AdvanceMAME on my PC. And I have a bootable USB stick containing Batocera Linux (based on Recalbox), which turns a PC into a games console. It supports loads of different emulators.

https://www.advancemame.it/
http://batocera-linux.xorhub.com/
https://www.recalbox.com/en/

KnoppixMAME is a bootable CD/DVD image, which works pretty well too. The last release was 15 years ago, so it works well on old PCs!

http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/knoppixmame/

Amumu00 · 22 April 2019 at 5:36AM

I use the Nox emulator to play other games androdi games available at apknite

sleepyjones · 22 April 2019 at 8:17AM

Well, thanks to this post I'm now down an X-Box PC controller.

Decided to give Mame another try on the Arcade Classic Wonderboy (used to play this almost every day in the Arcade when I was a kid) ... turns out I don't have the patience I had when I was a kid, so now have a broken controller and a very scuffed wall :rotfl:

smartmartin · 27 April 2019 at 12:15AM

I use Nox Player

What emulators do you use?

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