No Source Code? No Problem(queue.acm.org)
45 points by ibobev | 33 comments
A 2003 ACM Queue article by Peter and George Phillips on emulating or translating legacy binaries, such as arcade game ROMs, when source code is unavailable.
#emulation on Hacker News
30 stories tagged emulation, newest first.
Recreate the Apollo Guidance Computer(raspberrypi.com)
49 points by Brajeshwar | 5 comments
Raspberry Pi blog post on Michael Newton's Recreate Apollo project, a 3D-printed 1:1 DSKY replica running the Virtual AGC emulator on a Raspberry Pi.
Porting video games to VHS(gardinerbryant.com)
41 points by Kate0CoolLibby | 26 comments
Bryant Review article about a modder inspired by a 1980s VHS-based console who builds interactive VHS versions of Doom and Super Mario Bros.
The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the results(github.com)
219 points by antirez | 34 comments
GitHub repository for antirez's c64-hw-simulator, a pin-level Commodore 64 hardware simulator that lets users break chips and pins and observe the results.
Virtual Oxide Labs: Emulating a Full Oxide Rack(oxide.computer)
129 points by tosh | 13 comments
Oxide Computer blog post describing Virtual Oxide Labs, a system for emulating a full Oxide rack to support testing and development without physical hardware.
Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly(github.com)
279 points by deadxwarrior | 146 comments
GitHub repository for ps2-web-recomp, a project that statically recompiles PS2 games to WebAssembly with a native runtime to run them in the browser.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/11/638f8aad-c52c-48ec-a2c1-24cd9814f1ff.jpg)
GameBoy on E-Paper ESP32 at 30FPS [video](youtube.com)
110 points by pizzaiolo | 30 comments
YouTube video from Bo Made It showing a Game Boy emulator running on an ESP32 with an e-paper display at 30 frames per second.
Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini(nyaa.sh)
263 points by hugh4life | 114 comments
A blog review of running cycle-accurate retro PC emulation in 86Box on an M6 Mac Mini, reaching an emulated 600MHz Pentium II with Voodoo 3.
Tiny Emulators(floooh.github.io)
327 points by naves | 28 comments
Tiny Emus is a gallery of browser-based 8-bit computer emulators, including KC85 systems and visual chip simulations, by floooh.
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation(devblogs.microsoft.com)
465 points by paulmooreparks | 149 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of(virtualosmuseum.org)
912 points by andreww591 | 201 comments
The Virtual OS Museum is a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM bundling 1,700+ pre-installed historical and modern operating systems running under emulation.
I built a Game Boy emulator in F#(nickkossolapov.github.io)
328 points by elvis70 | 74 comments
Blog post by Nick Kossolapov describing how he built Fame Boy, a Game Boy emulator in F# with sound that runs on desktop and web.
JSLinux Now Supports x86_64(bellard.org)
361 points by TechTechTech | 116 comments
JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard, a page listing emulated systems (now including x86_64 Alpine Linux) that run Linux, Windows 2000, and FreeDOS in the browser.
Rise of the Triforce(dolphin-emu.org)
402 points by max-m | 63 comments
Dolphin Emulator blog post about the Triforce arcade platform, a Sega/Namco/Nintendo arcade board based on GameCube hardware, and its emulation.
PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible(redgamingtech.com)
522 points by croes | 292 comments
RedGamingTech article covering a project that statically recompiles PlayStation 2 games to run natively on PC.
After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64(readonlymemo.com)
323 points by cainxinth | 69 comments
Read Only Memo newsletter issue on MAME developers getting sound working for SNK's Hyper Neo Geo 64 3D arcade system, plus PC Engine LaserActive support news.
iPhone 11 emulation done in QEMU(github.com)
360 points by 71bw | 30 comments
GitHub repository for QEMUAppleSilicon, a QEMU fork that emulates Apple Silicon devices, currently only the iPhone 11.
JSLinux(bellard.org)
340 points by TechTechTech | 108 comments
JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard, a page listing in-browser emulated systems including Alpine Linux, Windows 2000, FreeDOS, and RISC-V Linux.
An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips(dmitry.gr)
401 points by dmitrygr | 131 comments
Dmitry Grinberg's project write-up describing a simple-to-build kit computer that runs Linux at interactive speed using only three 8-pin chips.
Waydroid – Android in a Linux container(waydro.id)
485 points by birdculture | 130 comments
Homepage of Waydroid, a container-based tool for booting a full Android system on GNU/Linux systems running Wayland desktops.
Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub(github.com)
365 points by jsheard | 251 comments
The Ryujinx Nintendo Switch emulator repository on GitHub, which now returns a 404 page after being removed.
Move Fast and Abandon Things(engineersneedart.com)
415 points by JKCalhoun | 193 comments
A blog post by the author of Glider recalling unfinished Mac games he wrote decades ago, recovered from old hard drives and shared as disk images for emulators.
PumpkinOS, a Re-Implementation of PalmOS(github.com)
379 points by rickcarlino | 120 comments
GitHub repository for PumpkinOS, a GPL-3.0 licensed open-source re-implementation of the PalmOS operating system.
Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages(twitter.com)
388 points by ndiddy | 274 comments
An X/Twitter post reporting that the Yuzu Switch emulator developers settled Nintendo's lawsuit, agreeing to pay $2.4M in damages.
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu(overkill.wtf)
813 points by brandrick | 557 comments
News article reporting that Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the creators of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu.
Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux(darlinghq.org)
397 points by doener | 113 comments
Homepage of Darling, an open-source translation layer for running macOS software on Linux.
FPGA N64(ultrafp64.com)
374 points by AndrewDucker | 74 comments
Homepage of ULTRA FP64, a project billed as the world's first FPGA implementation of the Nintendo 64, showing a dev board running an N64 cartridge.
RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator(ryujinx.org)
490 points by robertwt7 | 172 comments
Homepage of Ryujinx, an open-source experimental Nintendo Switch emulator written in C# by gdkchan.
Internet Archive expands Flash support(mastodon.archive.org)
471 points by sogen | 201 comments
Mastodon post by Jason Scott announcing improved Flash emulation at the Internet Archive, including sound toggling, auto-resizing, and multi-SWF support.
Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed(dolphin-emu.org)
333 points by Lammy | 219 comments
Dolphin emulator blog post announcing its Steam release is indefinitely postponed after Nintendo issued a DMCA notice to Valve against its Steam page.