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== Nintendo NES ==
= Nintendo NES =


* fakenes seems very good, with an excellent GUI and an excellent video support via OpenGL.
* fakenes seems very good, with an excellent GUI and an excellent video support via OpenGL.
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* Mednafen is another candidate.
* Mednafen is another candidate.


== Sega Saturn ==
= Sega Saturn =


* The best one on Linux seems to be Yabause. Although slow, and problematic for sound, it is impressive already.
* The best one on Linux seems to be Yabause. Although slow, and problematic for sound, it is impressive already.


== DOS ==
= DOS =


* You must use DOSBox. I did not find yet a good front-end for Gentoo. Write the configuration file yourself, and start the emulator directly on the command-line with as an argument the .EXE you want to load.
* You must use DOSBox. I did not find yet a good front-end for Gentoo. Write the configuration file yourself, and start the emulator directly on the command-line with as an argument the .EXE you want to load.
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* Press alt-enter to switch fullscreen mode.
* Press alt-enter to switch fullscreen mode.


== Commodore 64 ==
= Commodore 64 =


* Vice 1.22 is good, however I had problems with keyboard keys and speed (while reading the disks).
* Vice 1.22 is good, however I had problems with keyboard keys and speed (while reading the disks).
= SCUMMVM =
* Excellent emulator to play LucasArts games as well as other ones such as Legend of Kyrandia.
* Don't select the ALSA driver as a sound driver (for some reason it then says it cannot find the MIDI port). Select the Adlib driver or the default one.

Revision as of 14:37, 19 January 2009

Nintendo NES

  • fakenes seems very good, with an excellent GUI and an excellent video support via OpenGL.
  • Fakenes is quite slow with good video options (HQ4X). It also must be ran in windowed mode in order to use alt-tab.
  • Mednafen is another candidate.

Sega Saturn

  • The best one on Linux seems to be Yabause. Although slow, and problematic for sound, it is impressive already.

DOS

  • You must use DOSBox. I did not find yet a good front-end for Gentoo. Write the configuration file yourself, and start the emulator directly on the command-line with as an argument the .EXE you want to load.
  • Try dboxfe as a front end. It's already quite usable, not yet perfect though.
  • Press Control-F10 to turn the mouse cursor off (useful for many games). Press Control-F11 or F12 to increase or decrease the CPU cycles. Some old games may need a very low cycle rate. Beware that by default these keys are already captured by KDE.
  • Press alt-enter to switch fullscreen mode.

Commodore 64

  • Vice 1.22 is good, however I had problems with keyboard keys and speed (while reading the disks).

SCUMMVM

  • Excellent emulator to play LucasArts games as well as other ones such as Legend of Kyrandia.
  • Don't select the ALSA driver as a sound driver (for some reason it then says it cannot find the MIDI port). Select the Adlib driver or the default one.