Scrabbler15 Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 (edited) My first emulator is Stella and today is the first time I played on it. The game was Klax. And, yes, now I do want to get a Stelladaptor. Edited June 13, 2010 by Scrabbler15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koopa64 Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Silhouette on Mac OS 9 to play Chrono Trigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted June 14, 2010 Share Posted June 14, 2010 Sometime around 1996 or so I think, I used Nesticle. Pretty decent for the time but I've since moved onto FCEUX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuckleCat Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 My first one was some Game Boy emu that I don't even remember the name of. After that, Nesticle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProperRogue Posted June 17, 2010 Share Posted June 17, 2010 I'm not quite sure which one I actually downloaded first, but I had both Raine and NeoRage on my PC at the time. That was around late '98 or early '99 sometime. NeoRage, because I just couldn't play enough Metal Slug at my local pizzeria. Raine, because at the time, that was the only system to emulate WWF WrestleFest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 My first one was some Game Boy emu that I don't even remember the name of. After that, Nesticle. Might it have been No$Gameboy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted June 18, 2010 Share Posted June 18, 2010 First - 3270 terminal emulators on early PCs, but then again they don't exactly have a lot to emulate. First proper emulator was an A8 emulator on the ST. No idea what it's called but I remember it running probably barely a third as fast as an actual A8. Next one I used would have been the one I wrote - a 1050 emulator on the ST. Never developed it far, the aim was going to be to add the turbo modes but I didn't have any documentation and would have had to reverse-engineer it via a DOS to do it. I think you mean 'X former' an A8 emulator for the ST (by branch always software in canada, now called emulators unlimited) I used it as well, this was just before it was capable of running commercial games (i.e non dos boot images) I had the cable that allowed you to attach the 1050 etc to the st, it was no good for the pc version (something to do with the wiring or something) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LYNXGUY Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 The first emulator I used was Xformer 2000 for Windows version 7 which played great but it had no sound so I updated it to version 8 which had sound (I think I got the versions right??)then very recently I was told about Altirra and I never looked back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 I remember using Dave Spicer's arcade emulator (I think it did Galaxian and Pac-Man). I also used XL-it, Pacifist, and a bunch of different Apple II emulators. Things have improved a LOT since then. ~telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stalepie Posted June 27, 2010 Share Posted June 27, 2010 (edited) I have memories of Nesticle and Kega 98 (the DOS version). Anything before that, not sure. Never could get Genecyst to work... I remember |tsr's NES archive and Kurt Kalata's Castlevania Dungeon reviving my interest in retro games. (Zophar, too, especially their nsf collection). Edited June 27, 2010 by stalepie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 My first was PC-Ditto and Magic Sac on the Atari ST. It was fun calling IBM and Mac BBS's using an ST for a fraction of the cost of the machine it was emulating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kripto Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 It wasn't my first but I remember running 3D software which was written for a 68020 Mac in emulation on a PowerMac 6100. It had to emulate the FPU of the older machine, leading to truly glacial screen redraws of about 1 FPS, making it entirely useless but amusing to look back on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieAtari Posted June 30, 2010 Share Posted June 30, 2010 Sparcade & Shark (whatever happened to that?) and MAME from the very beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberpunk Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 first one i used was NESticle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenegg Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 The first emulator I ever used was a NES emulator for DOS. Can't remember which emu is was though. I do have fond memories of using EARLY releases of MAME for DOS. Playing arcade games at home was just mind blowing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeLorean Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 My favorite emulator has to be my Zelda: Ocarina of Time emulator on my laptop. When I was younger, this game was like crack to me. It's so nice to be able to go back to it, whenever I want, and save Hyrule all over again. Also, Ocarina of Time has to be the best Zelda game, at least to me. Major's Mask was also very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mezmaron Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 (edited) Ah, the late 90's emulation scene... good times for sure! I remember sitting on IRC in channels such as #emulate, #emu, and others, waiting for the latest MAME to be released. And then also Retrocade, with Mike Cuddy and Neil Bradley and others. And of course Conjurer was a staple on IRC. (still is, apparently, but I've not seen him do anything other than sit idle during the occasional times I drop in on the old IRC haunts to see what's up. It's amazing the old names you still see, but most of them sit idle) I remember the whole fiasco with Mindrape and Sardu and the NESticle source code. Archaic Ruins. Atmospheric Heights. JoseQ's EmuViews. Dave's Video Game Classics! I even had a site of my own for a little while, one of the early "Emulation Nation" sites. I remember when things really started rolling in emulation by mid '97, updating the site constantly to report on new versions of emulators became quite a chore, thus I gave it up. My site did manage to get a shout-out on Neil Bradley's original "EMU" emulator upon exit as one of the "official" places to get it! :-) I think MAME started out as a Mr. Do! emulator. Edited July 12, 2010 by Mezmaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SekOner Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 It was ZSNES in the Mid-nineties, i did it to play Super Mario World i believe. Infact i still use ZSNES exclusively for my SNES emulating needs . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted July 14, 2010 Author Share Posted July 14, 2010 It was ZSNES in the Mid-nineties, i did it to play Super Mario World i believe. Infact i still use ZSNES exclusively for my SNES emulating needs . If you have a modern computer you might consider switching to BSNES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted July 14, 2010 Share Posted July 14, 2010 It was ZSNES in the Mid-nineties, i did it to play Super Mario World i believe. Infact i still use ZSNES exclusively for my SNES emulating needs . If you have a modern computer you might consider switching to BSNES. Is that one any good? I use SNES9X still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd30 Posted July 15, 2010 Author Share Posted July 15, 2010 It was ZSNES in the Mid-nineties, i did it to play Super Mario World i believe. Infact i still use ZSNES exclusively for my SNES emulating needs . If you have a modern computer you might consider switching to BSNES. Is that one any good? I use SNES9X still. The programmer for BSNES is extremely anal about accuracy so it's the best if your computer is powerful enough to handle it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 mid 80s, C64 on Amiga: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted July 15, 2010 Share Posted July 15, 2010 @high voltage What about the A64 Package? How did that fare in the early days of our now beloved gaming art? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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