Emulation

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From the 700 series Zaurus onwards, there has been sufficient processor power and memory to allow emulation of other platforms. Of course, it is quicker to provide a virtual machine/application library interface than to emulate an alien platform where the processor and peripherals are totally different from the Zaurus's.

The most exciting development as of writing this is the Zaurus port of the PSX emulator. http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17052

Contents

Game console systems

Device Package Status/Performance/Hints Home Page
Atari 2600 zStella  ? http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/lab/zstella/
SNES  ?  ? http://www.suhami.net/zaurus/index.cgi?Emulator/snes9x
PSX ZPSX currently in active development, see http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17052

Home Computers

Device Package Status/Performance/Hints Home Page
Apple2e Zapple http://led.e-fever.org/zaurus/modules/mydownloads/
Atari 8-bit Line Atari800z Doesn't work if launched from the launcher, I had to launch from the command line with the "-window" option. Kind of slow, I'm looking for speed improvements. http://zaurus.spy.org/feeds/emulators/new-atari/
Commodore 64 Frodo Very fast. Haven't got sound to work. Really needs FrodoGUI to be of any use. http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=Frodo
Commodore Amiga UAE  ? http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=537
Multi MaxMess  ? http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=654

PC Emulators/Virtual Machines

Device Package Status/Performance/Hints Home Page
x86/DOS Bochs very slow, create a bochs image on a PC first then copy to Zaurus http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ - zaurus port at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tzer-jen/zbochs/
x86/DOS dosbox  ?  ?
x86 virtual machine qemu very slow, create a qemu disk image on a PC first then copy to Zaurus http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Handhelds

Device Package Status/Performance/Hints Home Page
Palm (68k) qpose slow, only for early 68000 based Palms? http://www.climov.com/zaurus/qpose/
Atari Lynx handy/sdl  ? See this thread: http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=18087

Arcade Systems

Most of these are various ports of Mame

Device Package Status/Performance/Hints Home Page
Multi MaxMame This is a version of AdvanceMaMe, slow  ?
Multi qMame.ld  ? http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=376
Multi Xmame.sdl  ? http://www.elsix.org/index.php?w=project&p=1044
Multi zMame  ? http://zmame.mameworld.net/

External Sites

Site Comments
booyaa's gaming on the go a review site about emulators on the zaurus and their games.
Linux Link's emulation section
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