Emupedia

The purpose of Emupedia (Emulation Encyclopedia) is to serve as a nonprofit meta-resource hub and community for those interested mainly in video game preservation and computer history which aims to digitally collect, archive and preserve games and software to make them available online accessible by a user-friendly UI that simulates several retro operating systems for educational purposes.
We mainly collect content from:
- a wide variety of systems no longer in production
- abandonware, shareware or freeware games websites
- open source ports of old games that work in modern web browsers
- new games and software developed with modern web technologies using retro-style graphics
We revive old games and software by the use of emulation software.
Similar organizations that do digital preservation and archiving:
- 🏛 Internet Archive
- 🏛 Archive Team
- 🏛 Video Game History Foundation
- 🏛 International Center for the History of Electronic Games
- more on Wikipedia
💬 Join us on Discord
👀 View a Live Demo
- https://emupedia.net/beta/emuos/
- https://emupedia.org/beta/emuos/
- https://emupedia.games/beta/emuos/
- https://emuos.net/beta/emuos/
- https://emuos.org/beta/emuos/
- https://emuos.games/beta/emuos/
🌍 Browser support
| Logo | Company | Name | Rendering Engine | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Internet Explorer | Trident | *11+ | |
| Microsoft | Edge | EdgeHTML | *12+ | |
| Microsoft | Edge | Blink | 79+ | |
| Mozilla | Firefox | Gecko | *4+ | |
| Mozilla | Firefox | Quantum Gecko | 57+ | |
| Moonchild Productions | Pale Moon | Goanna | *4+ | |
| Moonchild Productions | Basilisk | Goanna | *1+ | |
| Chrome | WebKit | *3+ | ||
| Chrome | Blink | 28+ | ||
| Opera Software | Opera | Presto | *12+ | |
| Opera Software | Opera | Blink | 15+ | |
| Apple | Safari | WebKit | 8+ | |
| Brave Software | Brave | Blink | 1+ | |
| Vivaldi Technologies | Vivaldi | Blink | 1+ |
🤖 Emulators used
| Name | Website | Repository | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAME | mamedev.org | github.com/mamedev/mame | GPL-2.0 |
| DOSBox | dosbox.com | sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox | GPL-2.0 |
| Em-DOSBox | ❌ | github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox | GPL-2.0 |
| emularity | archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Emularity | github.com/db48x/emularity | GPL-3.0 |
| JS-DOS | js-dos.com | github.com/caiiiycuk/js-dos | GPL-2.0 |
⚙ Applications used
🕹️ Games used
⭐ Honorable mentions (not included because a more faithfull alternative was used)
| Name | Website | Repository | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| minesweeper_js | minesweeper.zone | github.com/reed-jones/minesweeper_js | CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| winmine-exe | winmine-exe.now.sh | github.com/1000hz/winmine-exe | ❓ |
| HTML5 Pacman | ❌ | github.com/daleharvey/pacman | WTFPL |
🔫 Demos used
| Name | Website | Repository | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Spatial Audio | howlerjs.com/#spatial | github.com/goldfire/howler.js | MIT |
| 8-bit Palette Color Cycling | effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle | effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5 | LGPL-3.0 |
| asciicker | asciicker.com/y3 | ❌ | 😁 Permission granted from the author(s) 👍 |
| Biolab Disaster | playbiolab.com | ❌ | 😁 Permission granted from the author(s) 👍 |
| Super Blob Blaster | phoboslab.org/twopointfive | github.com/phoboslab/TwoPointFive | MIT |
| Voxel Space | s-macke.github.io/VoxelSpace | github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace | MIT |
📚 Libraries used
⭐ Similar projects (from which this project is heavily inspired)
OS-like Desktops