E61/65 Blog

October 24, 2006

E61 Emulators

Filed under: Software — stmcgill @ 3:50 pm

I was looking at Speccy today (the Spectrum emulator) and stumbled upon 3 other emulators for the E61- MasterGear, ColEm and VGBA. If you like retro gaming these have to be worth a look…

Emulators are programs that run software written for old computers or videogame consoles on the new hardware. Essentially, an emulator makes old software “think” that it is running on the original hardware, while it actually runs on your computer. I am creating emulators since 1993 and have made quite a few of them. For those who would like to try making an emulator on their own but do not know where to start, I have written a short introduction into the craft.

Originally, I developed emulators for PCs and Unix workstations. With time though, even mobile devices such as PDAs and cell phones became capable of emulating older hardware. Thus, at this page you will find my applications for Nokia Symbian-based smart phones and instructions on how to set them up.

If you work for a game company that would like to run its legacy games on mobile phones or other hardware, and need help…

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