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%%      Emulation Rambler Special:  All the Emulators in the World!      %%
%%                 By Jason Compton (jcompton@tcity.com)                 %%
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Ok, not all of them.  After all, I'm only talking about the Amiga, and
I'm sure that they're not ALL here.  But there's a whole lot of them,
and I figured I'd bore everyone to death if I included it in ER proper,
so here it is, the largest single list of emulators in the world that I know
of!
If you want to reprint it, just throw in a little "with permission" blurb
about Amiga Report and throw a "V1.0" or something on it.
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All (most) of the Emulators in the World!
Originally compiled by: Angelo Carpi (siama@dist.dist.unige.it)
Messed around with by: Jason Compton (jcompton@tcity.com)
Key to cost notation:
FW: No cost (PD/Freeware/Giftware/whatever)
SW: Shareware
                                IBM clone Bridgeboards:
Name                Built-in video     Approximate cost    Company/Origin
PCboard             uptomonoVGA              $200              Holland
Power PC                   ?                 $200              Supra
Note: Just an XT emulator, sorry, not what it sounds like.
2088 Bridgeboard        CGA                  $50             Commodore
Sidecar                 CGA                   ?              Commodore
Note: XT emulator for the 1000.
2286 Bridgeboard        CGA                 $100             Commodore
2386sx Bridgeboard      CGA                 $300             Commodore
486 Bridgeboard         CGA                 $900           EMC/Commodore
ATOnce/+ 286         CGA (?)                $200               Vortex
GoldenGate 386    upto16colVGA              $350               Vortex
GoldenGate 486    upto16colVGA              $900               Vortex
                                IBM Software-based
Name                    Available Video    Approx. Cost     Company/Origin
Transformer 1.2           Mono only          $35               Insignia
Note: This is taking Angelo's word.  I've seen Transformer, it's from 1986.
Somehow I doubt anyone is trying to collect on it.  Emulates a 286,
so the sysinfo programs say.
PCTask (XT)        VGA (256col with AGA)     $40            New Zealand
IBeM (XT)                  CGA                ?             New Zealand
Note: CrossPC, with the CrossDOS package, is really this program.
                                Commodore Emulators
Name                      Approx. Price      Company
C64Emulator                      ?           ReadySoft
A-64 Package 3.0                $50          Questronix
Vic-20 Emulator       No information, it's just been announced over Usenet.
Looks like it's free.
                               Atari ST Emulators
 Name                Approx. Price               Company/Origin
ATARI1                     ??                          ??
MEDUSA 2.0               dm 320                    MacroSystem
CHAMAELEON 2.1           dm 340                       Maxon
BRAINSTORM                 ??                        M.A.S.T.
AMTARI                   dm 298                        ??
ST4AMIGA                   FW                        Germany
Note: This one is software based and requires an Atari ST image file.
                                        UNIX
Name                       Price                         Company
MINIX                      $169                       Prentice Hall
NetBSD                      FW
Linux                       FW
                                Macintosh Emulators
Name                    Approx. price                 Company
A-Max 4                   See note                   ReadySoft
Note:  A-Max 4 is an upgrade to A-Max II+, a Zorro-board which did mono
Mac emulation.  As an entire new package, it could well run $500.  As an
upgrade, I believe the cost hangs around $250.
Emplant Mac v3.7          See note              Utilities Unlimited
Note: Emplant is a board available in 4 different configurations (the Mac
software is included)  Cost ranges from $280 to $400, depending on options.
                                CPM/Z80 (all believed free)
Name                     Origin
SimCPM                   Canada
ECPM                     Sweden
CPM                      U.S.A.
Z80Emulator103      Phil Brown-U.K.
Note:  This is truly an emulation of a Z80 chip, not a particular computer or
OS.
                     Assorted Emulators (all believed free)
Name                                            Origin
ZX-Spectrum 1.6                    Peter McGavin-New Zealand
QLemulator                                       U.K.
APPLE2                                           U.S.A.
Apple II+ C code                                   ?
Note: I've seen the C code for an Apple II emulator floating around...it
doesn't
compile very well on an Amiga.
GameBoy68000                                       ??
Note: The legitimacy of this is questionable, as I've never seen it run
anything
other than Tetris.  However, someone went through the trouble to write
Tetris in Z80 code, presumably used by the program...
Wow! There you have it, the most complete list I know of.  Please
contact either Angelo or myself with comments, corrections, or
additions.  Keep the emulators warm.