Amstrad emulator for linux

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There are a bunch of amstrad emulators for linux. Most of them are not maintained, obsolated, and more or less working with recent linux (gcc4, X, SDL,...). I try to keep information about the state of those emulators on this page.

1 Current
2 Unmaintained

[edit] Current

[edit] (x)mame, (x)mess and such

MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator and MESS the Multi Emulator Super System.

xmame and xmess are ports of MAME and MESS to unix/xwindows.

I dont really understand yet what the difference are, if they are merging or forking. There are different packages in gentoo for both of them.

advancemame/menu were frontends stopped in january 2007.

[edit] xcpc

Despite the ugly website, it's current enough to cite wikipedia and have gentoo ebuilds in the download section. It uses motif/athena widget. Not even gtk, although cited, and they don't seem to know about qt/kde.

[edit] Arnold

Seemed quite famous. It was originally made for windows. No news since 2004 on their website. Source is under GPL (although called "GNU public license" instead of "GNU General Public License"). The download link is dead on the main page (hacked probably : "Fatal Error ::: s4r4d0 Ownz y0u :::").

The contact email doesn't work anymore.

There's a linux port here. It includes rom, is easy to install, and you got a working cpc in few time.