Web site: www.dosbox.com Category: Machine Emulators Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows, BSD, RISC OS, OS/2, Solaris, BeOS License: GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: DOSBox First release: January 31, 2002 DOSBox – a free and open-source DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported … Read more
Web site: mkssoftware.com Category: Others Platform: Windows License: Proprietary Interface: CLI Wikipedia: MKS Toolkit First release: 1994 MKS Toolkit – allows you to run Unix scripts unmodified using its utilities and to migrate Unix source code unmodified to Windows using the 2700 standards-based POSIX, UNIX and X11 APIs in PTC MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. … Read more
Web site: cygwin.com Category: Others Platform: Windows License: LGPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Cygwin First release: October 18, 1995 Cygwin – a distribution of popular GNU and other Open Source tools running on Microsoft Windows. The core part is the Cygwin library which provides the POSIX system calls and environment these programs expect. The Cygwin distribution … Read more
Web site: sourceforge.net/projects/emilnes/ Category: Emulators Platform: Linux, Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: First release: 2005 EmilNES – a multiplatform Nintendo NES emulator. It is command line driven, but includes a pseudo-GUI program. It supports few mappers and doesn’t have sound. The emulator is available for Windows and Linux platforms. The last version of … Read more
Web site: docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl Category: Others Platform: Windows License: unknown (source code available) Interface: CLI Wikipedia: Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux First release: August 2, 2016 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables on MS Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2019. The Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment – … Read more