Hatari Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Hatari for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is CLK, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Hatari and eight of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Hatari are PCE, Stella, Z26 and jGameBase.

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  1. CLK icon
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    A latency-hating emulator of: the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Archimedes, Amstrad CPC, Apple II/II+/IIe and early Macintosh, Atari 2600 and ST, ColecoVision, Enterprise 64/128, Commodore Vic-20 and Amiga, MSX 1/2, Oric 1/Atmos, early PC compatibles, Sinclair ZX80/81 and ZX Spectrum.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. PCE icon
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    PCE is a collection of microcomputer emulators. At the moment it contains three emulators:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Stella icon
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    Stella is a multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Stella was originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott, and is currently maintained by Stephen Anthony.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Stella vs Hatari Comments
    Erdnussmus
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    Stella emulates the Atari 2600, a game console. Hatari emulates only the Atari ST, a computer series. Like a PC and a Playstation. Not an alternative at all.

    • Stella is Free and Open SourceHatari is also Free and Open Source
  4. Z26 icon
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    Z26 is one of the best emulators for the Atari 2600. The author reports that the graphics part of the emulator is nearing perfection to a point that there's little more to fix.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Z26 vs Hatari Comments
    Erdnussmus
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    Z26 emulates the Atari 2600, a game console. Hatari emulates only the Atari ST, a computer series. Like a PC and a Playstation. Not an alternative at all.

    • Z26 is Free and Open SourceHatari is also Free and Open Source
  5. jGameBase icon
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    jGameBase is a fully-­featured retro-gaming emu­lator frontend and game database utility. It is a sister app­lication to the Windows program GameBase (without "j"), the official frontend for the GB64 Collection.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Atari800MacX icon
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    This is the the Macintosh OSX Port of David Firth's Fantastic Atari 800 Emulator. Ported is the SDL version of the Atrari800 emulator to Mac OSX, and added a full native Cocoa interface, including Preferences, Menus, File Associations, Help and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    Atari800MacX vs Hatari Comments
    Erdnussmus
    Negative
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    Atari800MacX emulates the Atari XL/SE series, a 8 bit home computer. Hatari emulates only the Atari ST, a completely different and incompatible computer series. Not an alternative at all.

    • Atari800MacX is Free and ProprietaryHatari is Free and Open Source
  7. ARAnyM icon
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    ARAnyM is a software virtual machine designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. AtariX icon
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    Atari TOS emulator offering the MagiC multitasking OS, running on macOS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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