10. Emulation and Virtual Machines

Linux gets ragged on alot because we don't have the wealth of games that other platforms have. Frankly, there's enough games for me, although it would be really nice to have some of the bleeding edge games and classics like Half-life and Carmageddon. Fortunately, we have more emulators than you can shake a stick at. Although playing an emulated game is not quite as fun as playing it on the native machine, and getting some of the emulators to work well can be a difficult task, they're here, and there's alot of them!

10.1. Apple 8-bit

All the 8-bit Apple ][ emulators require a copy of the original ROM, for whichever system you want to emulate, in a file. If you search hard enough, you can find file copies of the ROMs for the Apple ][, ][+, ][e, ][c and //gs. They are still copyrighted by Apple, and you can only use them legally if you actually own one of these computers.

10.1.1. KEGS

KEGS is an Apple II emulator written by Kent Dickey which was originally written for HP-UX, but improved and customized for Linux. It runs under X at any color depth, and supports changeable memory sizes, joysticks, and sound. KEGS boots all Apple II variants, and supports all of the Apple ]['s graphics modes. I can't find a working homepage for this application.

10.2. DOS

10.3. Win16

10.4. Win32