Amstrad emulator for linux

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

Current (or kinda)

(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.

xcpc

Website often updated, mentions Gentoo on their main page, last release in 2007 (as of november 2013), use svn. It uses motif or athena widget. Not even gtk, although cited, and they don't seem to know about qt/kde.

caprice32

Was unmaintained for long (2005~2016, old sourceforge hosting)

There are several attempts to revive it, most of them on github. Like https://github.com/ColinPitrat/caprice32 or https://github.com/sebhz/caprice32

Unmaintained

cpc++

Written in c++. Used to be closed source and to require a login/subscription/whatever. As of november 2013, it started going opensource. Screenshots in French.

cpc-emu

Seems to be really slowly maintained. Some news/release every few years. No news since 2009 as of novembre 22nd, 2013.

cpc4x

Tcl/tk frontend... While it can run most 'normal' software fine, it has problems loading and executing hardware-sensitive and 'tricky' games. As of november 2013, the website is dead.

Arnold

Seemed quite famous. It was originally made for windows. No news since 2004 (as of november 2013) on their website. Source is under GPL (although called "GNU public license" instead of "GNU General Public License").

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. No gentoo ebuild though, and as of november 2013, no news since. Last release : march 2009 on BerliOS.