What’s the oldest Emulator you know of?

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's iconTamagotchiTamaHero24]

For me, it’s NESticle. That’s the oldest I can NAME, but I know there were slower ones before that.

 

[Samatonic]

The MS Dos (DOSBox) emulator and the Snes emulator (ZSNES), this is were it all started.

 

[RageBurner]

NESticle (NES) and Stella (Atari 2600).

 

[DarkTownStrutters]

Warajevo, it was a ZX Spectrum emulator developed in the city of Sarajevo by two teenagers during the civil war and posted to Usenet (remember that thing?) in the early to mid 90s. Reading the release posts where they described dealing with constant power cuts, dodging actual snipers and trading bic lighters for diskettes was effin' surreal.

Everyone thought that those guys were full of it and then someone tracked them down in the early 2000s and interviewed them. And it turned out that they were actually downplaying what they went through at the time because nobody would have believed it then.

Hardcore.

edit: Trying to find the interview in Google Groups, the hell happened there Google? Run out of storage or something?

 

[Pi-Man]

NESticle for me.

 

[DunkeyKong]

ePSXe, never got to run games on it though

 

[Darren]

I HATED ZSNES but that's where it all started for me. ePSXe served it's purpose until Duckstation absolutely obliterated them.

 

[UnDubious]

Supposedly Yuji Naka programmed an emulator that would run the NES Super Mario Bros on the Mega Drive for his personal use way back in the late '80s. That's from an interview on shmuplations. But as far as public emulators, yeah it's probably NesTICLE or Zsnes, whichever came first. One of the first I ever used personally, back in the day, was MEKA, which was for Master System and Game Gear. Came out in 1999 and was very good at the time. I remember using Genecyst as well and having sound issues. Then Gens made it obsolete, and eventually Kega Fusion seemed better.

 

[wilddogsdivorce]

oldest one i have personal familiarity with is bleem, but actually playing something with it sure wasn't an option for me back in the day so i dont know how familiar i can really claim to be, besides having owned a disc.

 

[JustLooking123]

The oldest emulators that i personally had are these:

• A DOS version of Stella (Atari 2600)
• Dgen 1.16 for Windows (Sega MegaDrive)
• MagicEngine for DOS (PCEngine/TurboGrafx)

I still have Dgen and MagicEngine even to this day!

 

[Deleted member 884]

TGB Dual, my first emulator.

 

[Raidou Kuzunoha]

KGen for mega drive games, first written in 1997! Big part of my childhood :')

 

[Dionas]

Bleem, but I could not get it to work. My system was probably to slow.

ZSNES. It was terrible, but worked.

Now I use ARES and duckstation on PC

 

[thanonyx]

Family Computer Emulator V0.35 for FM Towns, by "Haruhisa Udagawa", with file timestamps of December 12, 1990.

 

[ThunderBoy]

I can't remember.
I know it was a GameBoy emulator running on a 486.

which one could it be?

 

[ciro64]

When I was a small kid I played a SNES emulator on Windows 98 that had a frontend for it. I guess the backend was snes9x.

 

[fake-kun]

Pasofami, a Japanese NES emulator.

 

[Varyag]

My father found out about and showed me the Stella Atari emulator when I was a kid, that's where it all started. VBA and Project64 were the next ones I found and played.

 

[Mazerkist]

Anyone remember ZSNES back in the day?

 

[UnDubious]

Everyone remembers ZSNES, lol, it was the biggest emulator around. If you were there you remember. I still have it.

 

[SpcDaicon]

Some early version of VBA that I used to play Pokemon Emerald and Fire Red

 

[Ninnuam]

ZSnes
Emurayden (PS1)

 

[Tsetskhli776]

Project64 was how I discovered emulators, and the first one I messed around with.