- 690 likes40 Wine alternatives
Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are normally not supported. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Flathub
+1 - 274 likes151 RetroArch alternatives
RetroArch is a graphical frontend for emulators, game engines, and media players.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- iPad
- OpenPandora
- Steam
- Raspberry Pi
- Playstation
- Xbox
+6RetroArch Features
- 522 likes39 WinCDEmu alternatives
WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator - a tool that allows you to mount optical disc images by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer. If you have downloaded an ISO image and want to use it without burning it to a blank disc, WinCDEmu is the easiest way to do it.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Windows
- PortableApps.com
+14DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed. Last version, 4.1, released on September 29, 2015, can be still downloaded from GitHub
- 274 likes47 QEMU alternatives
QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.
+1 - 97 likes38 Proton alternatives
Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on Linux kernel operating system. It uses Wine to facilitate this.
Proton Features
- 163 likes5 PCSX2 alternatives
PCSX2 is a PlayStation 2 emulator for Windows, Linux & Mac, started by the same team that brought you PCSX (a Sony PlayStation 1 emulator).
- 111 likes46 KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) alternatives
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.
- 36 likes8 DuckStation alternatives
DuckStation is an simulator/emulator of the Sony PlayStation(TM) console, focusing on playability, speed, and long-term maintainability.
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Android Tablet
- AppImageHub
- Flathub
DuckStation Features
- 35 likes8 Ruffle alternatives
Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust. Ruffle runs natively on all modern operating systems as a standalone application, and on all modern browsers through the use of WebAssembly. Leveraging the safety of the modern browser sandbox and the memory safety guarantees of...
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- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Google Chrome
- Flathub
- Mozilla Firefox
- Microsoft Edge
- Flatpak
- 155 likes33 VisualBoyAdvance alternatives
VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is a free software (GNU GPL) emulator targeted for the Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance handheld game consoles sold by Nintendo.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Haiku
- AmigaOS
- MorphOS
VisualBoyAdvance Features
DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.8.0 beta 3, released in October 2005, can be still downloaded from FileHippo
- 8 likes10 Lime3DS alternatives
Fork of a popular, open-source 3DS emulator, supporting Windows, Linux, Android, and macOS with active maintenance. Perfect for game emulation.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Flathub
- Flatpak
+2 - 197 likes34 ZSNES alternatives
ZSNES is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator. Aside from emulation accuracy, many interface features first introduced in ZSNES have been adopted by other emulators. ZSNES interface features include: Smoothing and dynamic image scaling; screenshot capture; state...
ZSNES Features
DiscontinuedThe program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.51, released in January 2007, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- 24 likes16 Lemuroid alternatives
Lemuroid is an open-source emulation project based on Libretro. It's completely free, without ads and focused on ease of use and good user experience.
+1 - 163 likes58 PowerISO alternatives
PowerISO is a powerful CD/DVD image file processing tool, which allows you to open, extract, create, edit, compress, encrypt, split and convert ISO files, and mount these files with internal virtual drive. It can process almost all CD-ROM image files including ISO and BIN.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
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- 19 likes53 UTM alternatives
UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.