MAME's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. As electronic technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents this important "vintage" software from being lost and forgotten. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions. The source code to MAME serves as this documentation. The fact that the software is usable serves primarily to validate the accuracy of the documentation (how else can you prove that you have recreated the hardware faithfully?). Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus.

ARCADE is a continuation of the MAMEUIFX project. It is based on the latest MAME source at the time of release.

WinUAE is a 32-, 64-bit Windows version (XP/Vista/7/8/10) of the UAE Amiga Emulator. UAE is the collaborative effort of a number of Amiga enthusiasts to create a portable Amiga emulator under the GNU Public License.

Raine (for Rainbow Islands Emulator) is an arcade multiemulator, it can handle games from CPS systems, Taito, Jaleco and it's run titles from NeoGeoCD (in last year project raine and neoraine was combined in one application).

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator

C64-Archiv Scans and stores your C64 - (games) - collection with only a few clicks File manager for C64 images Starts C64 images and programs in different emulators or file tools Delivers instructions for the emulators: VICE, CCS64, HOXS64, EMU64 and MICRO64 Works with tools e.g. 64Copy, D64Lister or DirMaster Stores the C64-programs from files with the extensions: D64, D71, D81, G64, P00, PRG, T64 and CRT Stores files by name with the extensions: TAP, VSF (VICE-snapshot-file), VFL (VICE-Flipfile) and C64 (CCS64-session-file) Stores picture files: BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG and TIFF Media files: MP3, MP4 und AVI Stores text and information files with the extensions: PDF, TXT, NFO and DIZ Searches archiv files Read more

Arthur Jordison author of CBM prg Studio has released new version 3.3.0 of him application. Very convenient framework that allows not only to edit files written in CBM Basic but also in assembler. Additionally Studio has a module for creating sprites ("Sprite"), edit the font and service SID'ów.

Eighty One is one of the older designs of machine emulators with Z80 on board and quite accidentally with a rainbow in the logo - he can not only pretend the construction from Sinclair ZX80, to Amstrad ZX Spectrum +3 but also familiar with Timex, or more exotic ZX81 - Ringo clones and Lambda.

ZEsarux is another multimulator of Sir Clive's machines - we can find practically all models from ZX80, through traditional Sinclair Spectrum models, including those that have already appeared with the Amstrad logo, to the exotic Z88 Cambridge, if not for the lack of QL to say that he emulates everything from this family. Currently, he also manages the Sam Coupe machine or CPC464 (I will not mention other exotics - hence the feature in development). Author also adds Spectrum QL emulation. Emulator, by Cesar Hernandez (this is his second project, after ZXSpectr) was created for Unix, but in time he also made a version for Windows - looking at the list of possibilities, it's quite an interesting harvester, which is worth having at hand if you need all-in - with a rainbow on board - at least it gives me some problems, but what can be liked.

BizHawk is a A multi-system emulator written in C#. BizHawk provides nice features for casual gamers such as full screen, and joypad support in addition to full rerecording and debugging tools for all system cores.