A big thank you to Michael König who added a lot of the URLs and emulators, and did much of the testing on his PC card. He also pointed out that according to his tests the RISC OS ports of emulators are often faster on an ARM6 than the PC versions, even when you have a 586 PC card! Michael's card is in fact an AMD-5x86, which is about P75 but has been overclocked from 133MHz to 166MHz and performs about P90 speed, though it's slowed by graphics and harddisc emulation.
You should note that, according to tests so far, only Psion
and MADM work on Acorn's software only emulator (v1.82).
| Emulator Name | System emulated | Results |
|---|---|---|
| BBC Emulator | Acorn BBC Micro | Displays only rubbish. |
| BeebEm (DOS) | Acorn BBC Micro | Very unstable. Not recomended. |
| BeebEm (Win32) only v0.8 and earlier | Acorn BBC Micro | Works, but rather slow even on 586. |
| BeebInC | Acorn BBC Micro | Works fine. |
| CPE | Amstrad CPC | Works, but has problems with the soundblaster sound. |
| ApplePC | Apple IIe | Works, but no sound and too fast, also awkward to configure. |
| AppleWin | Apple IIe | Works, but not extremly fast. |
| Appler | Apple IIe | Works, no sound, real mode available, the best Apple II emu on the PC. |
| Executor* | Apple Macintosh | Yes, even fast enough to play lemmings |
| vMac/DOS | Apple Macintosh | Can even run System 7 correctly. |
| Callus | Arcade Machine | Works well, with sound. |
| Rage | Arcade Machine | Is slow. R-Type seems to run but Gunsmoke not. |
| System 16 | Arcade Machine | untested |
| PaCifiST | Atari ST | Works at about 97% of original speed, and v0.48 is much more stable than 0.47 |
| Stonx DOS | Atari ST | Doesn't seem to work. |
| TOSBOX | Atari ST | v1.00 works. |
| WinSTon | Atari ST | Much too slow. Very early release. |
| C64S | Commodore 64 | Displays only rubbish. |
| CCS64 | Commodore 64 | Works very slowly, poor colours and the freeware version is crippled. |
| Personal C64 (DOS) | Commodore 64 | Works, but no sound. |
| Personal C64 (Win95) | Commodore 64 | Too slow - only 10% on 586. |
| VICE | Commodore 64, PET and VIC20 | PET is unusable, VIC works, C64 is very slow but works. |
| Fellow | Commodore Amiga | Works, but seems to have slight problems with sound. VESA 2.0 needed for resolutions beyond 320x200x256. |
| iNES | Nintendo Entertainment System | untested |
| xNES | Nintendo Entertainment System | Crashed every ROM tested. |
| NoFrendo | Nintendo Entertainment System | Crashed the whole PC card. |
| NESticle | Nintendo Entertainment System | Runs well, sound works. |
| GB97 | Nintendo Gameboy | Works, no sound (ROMs must be in same directory as GB97) |
| GBUK | Nintendo Gameboy | Works, no sound, slow. |
| NoCashGB | Nintendo Gameboy | Seems to work, though I can't get it to load the ROM images. |
| Virtual Gameboy (VGB) | Nintendo Gameboy | Works, no sound, and fast. |
| Project Unreality | Nintendo Ultra 64 | untested |
| Magic Engine | PC Engine / TurboGrafx16 | Hangs when a game is loaded. |
| PSEmu | PlayStation | No: needs VESA 2.0 compatibility, PCPro only does VESA 1.2. |
| Psion* | Psion 3 and 3a | Works fine, 3a is better! |
| Genecyst | Sega Megadrive | Runs, but not very fast; sound works. |
| KGen | Sega Megadrive | Slightly better sound than Genecyst, but Genecyst is more stable. |
| Massage | Sega Master System | A bit slow on 586 and no sound. |
| MasterGear | Sega Master System | untested |
| MADM | Machester Mark 1 | untested |
| ESNES | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | untested |
| SNEeSe | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Buggy and slow. |
| SNES9x (DOS) | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Is a bit slow, but works well. |
| ZSNES | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Is quite fast, sound works, still buggy and not very compatible. |
| SNEmul | Super Nintendo Entertainment System | Displays only garbage |