MetaFilter posts tagged with emulation

Superman Returns to the NES

Effigy2000 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:12:04 -0800

A few years ago an old NES game called Sunman was discovered. Developed by a company called Sunsoft, it was clearly a repurposed Superman game, with the Man of Steel seemingly having been replaced at some point during the games development by a generic new superhero. This was likely done to avoid expensive licensing costs for a game that was due to be released around the end of the active lifespan for the NES (and would probably not sell well as a result) but this was purely speculation. Until now. For now a build of the original Superman game by Sunsoft has been found and you can download it for free here. For those who want to play this but have never before dabbled in the emulator 'scene', you'll need an NES emulator to play this. Here's a good place to find one. Install, load the ROM and then "punch enemies out of existence and zap a helicopter with laser eye power!" Yikes!

Now if only we could do this in modern games...

Pope Guilty — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:00:17 -0800

Thanks to the LUA scripting support in NES emulator FCEUX, you can do things like drag and drop enemies and powerups, alter gravity, give mario a jetpack, or make him shoot magic missiles. Super Mario Brothers not your thing? Perhaps you'd rather just have it play Pinball for you.

Homesoft's Disk Images of Atari 8-bit Games

milquetoast — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:55:40 -0800

Homesoft's Disk Images. 354 disks full of 8-bit Atari games. Click on game titles for s c r e e n s h o t s. The links section is a good source for all your Atari emulation needs.

Apple cloner or scammer?

MythMaker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:21:19 -0800

Recently, Psystar Corporation announced the Open Mac, now renamed "Open Computer," a $399.99 Mac clone. Besides violating Apple's EULA, and the license for the emulator that allows Leopard to run on commodity hardware, apparently the company itself seems a bit... shady. Metafilter's own Woz, on the other hand, says he might get one.

Good enough to cease 'n' disist

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:37:57 -0800

Mario Adventure - SMB3 hacked into an entirely new high-quality game

play c64 games online

mathowie — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:02:44 -0800

c64s is a pretty amazing site. Much of the popularity of the old c64 was in its wide array of games and this site offers a way to play most of the popular ones all in your browser (in java). Waste time today by reliving those old early 80s memories.

Dizzy - I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning...

greycap — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:11:30 -0800

Dizzy was looking forward to the round-the-world cruise. When he told the other yolkfolk about the good deal he found, they wondered just what lay ahead of him... A standalone PC emulation of the Commodore 64 version of Treasure Island Dizzy, by Eighties programming prodigies the Oliver Twins.

640k? 640k should be enough for anybody!

Saydur — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:02:30 -0800

DOSBox is an open source project dedicated towards emulating DOS and many of the features of computers during DOS's heyday. It's not the only DOS emulation project out there either.

When emulation has been discussed before, it has often been considered the domain of video games. Of course, who says it isn't?

A (decent) Roland 303 Emulator

nthdegx — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 04:30:00 -0800

Everybody needs a 303.

grant — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:45:41 -0800

I know you're all probably missing that old mini-mainframe you used to program on as a kid, right? Ok, maybe that's just me... But darn it, I can do it again using this PDP-8/E simulator for the Mac. You can even write your own simulated DEC I/O devices like paper tape readers via a plug-in API. And for the techno-frankenstein in me, it'll run using SheepShaver on my BeBox too.

grant — Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:22:39 -0800

A browser emulator. Now we're all set. We've got a program to emulate software which was designed to simulate and display multiple, linked text documents dirived from printed matter that runs in a virtual data-driven environment made up of digitally created window-like containers that are part of an interface based on the desktop metaphor. I think I'll go buy a book.