Welcome to
Darek Mihocka'sEmulators.com
web site. Since 1986 my collaborators and I have pioneered the development
of some of the world's first Atari
8-bit, Atari ST, and Apple Macintosh emulators for MS-DOS and Windows PCs, published
papers on emulation, contributed to third party emulators such as
Bochs, and authored over a dozen
U.S. patents on
emulation
and virtual
machines.
What started out as a hobby in the 80's has
turned into a 30+ year professional career at tech giants such as Microsoft,
Intel, and Amazon. I was on the ground floor of such projects as
x86 emulation for Xbox 360, Windows HPC compute instances for the AWS cloud,
and Time Travel Debugging in Windows. For the past decade I have had
the privilege of a front row engineering seat in the evolution and rise of
Windows
on ARM for Qualcomm Snapdragon and
Apple Silicon M-series
processors.
As we enter 2024, ARM64 threatens the market
leadership of AMD and Intel. The industry now finds itself in an
intense
CPU IPC Supremacy Race which is leading the way to faster laptops,
better developer tools, and longer battery life!
New to ARM64? A lot of people
still are, that's ok. Allow me to share my knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm
about ARM64 with a series of
online tutorials and videos I am calling ARM64 Boot Camp. Links to
the first few posts and useful reference material are there on the
right -->
Celebrating
40 years of the Atari desktop computing at VCF 2019
Thank you to everyone who attended the
Vintage Computer Festival 2019 in Seattle, March 23-24 2019
at the Living Computers Museum.
Emulators.com exhibited our
original 1979-1993 era Atari 800, XL, XE, TT, and Falcon computers as well
exhibiting the MIST FPGA re-implementation of the Atari TT, and making the
first public demos of Xformer 10 and
HATARI emulators compiled for long battery-life ARM64 laptops such as Lenovo
Yoga.
Run hundreds of Atari 800 and 130XE games at once!
Click the video above for a brief intro demo, or the video below for detailed
13-minute walkthrough of every... single... cool... new... holy... cow... I... didn't... know... I... needed.. this... how... have... I... lived... without... it... feature!
HATARI for ARM64 at VCF 2019: The emulators.com team is proud to demonstrate and release the world's
first native ARM64 port of Hatari (Atari ST/STe/TT emulator) for Windows 10
on ARM64. Visit our booth at the 2019 Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest in
Seattle to celebrate 40 Years Of Atari Desktop Computers. (More)
XFORMER 10 at VCF 2019: The emulators.com team is bringing our vintage Atari 800, 800XL, and
130XE hardware to the 2019 Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest in
Seattle to celebrate 40 Years Of Atari Desktop Computers. (More)
Windows 10 arrives for ARM64: ARM chips are not for toy devices anymore! Windows 10 is now shipping on
ARM64 based tablets and laptops which feature long battery life, x86
compatibility, and fast 64-bit performance. (More)
Haswell's great leap forward: The Intel Haswell processor has arrived! Darek
looks at what makes this the most significant improvement to x86 in many
years. (More)
The year of Smaller, Thinner, Faster: A look back a 2011. From AVX to Ultrabooks to Bochs 2.5, Darek looks back at 2011's
interesting events and gadgets. (More)
MICROCODE SIMULATION: Darek's latest paper on high-speed simulation techniques, presented at
the 4th AMAS-BT
workshop at ISCA 2011 in San Jose, California. (Read
Paper as PDF)
Long Live PowerPC G5: A look back at what is still a very useful processor. (More)
ISCA 2010: An overview of the 2010 ISCA conference held in St. Malo France. (More)
SoftMac
2000 instructional videos from 2001:
#1#2#3#4#5
A little bit more
history about us. More than five years before Apple
made the switch to Intel in 2006, our SoftMac
emulator
was already running unmodified Mac OS on Dell, Sony, and Gateway PCs in the
late 1990's. We proved it was possible.
On August 13th 2007, we started a public beta of the 9th generation of
Gemulator and SoftMac, bringing Windows Vista
compatibility and 64-bit Core 2 support to our flagship products. The
final Gemulator
9.0 release was made on December 1 2008.
Emulators.com has contributed code
and optimization ideas to numerous open source emulation projects
including vMac, Basilisk II, and the
Bochs x86
emulation project,
the gold standard of PC emulators, now supporting 64-bit Linux and Windows
emulation!
The authors of Bochs, Gemulator, and SoftMac
presented the case for emulation on June 21 2008 at the AMAS-BT
workshop, part of the ISCA 2008 computer architecture conference in
Beijing, China. View the
Virtualization Without Direct Executionpaper and slides.
Follow-up papers were presented at
workshops at the
2010 CGO conference in Toronto, Canada, explaining improved Overflow
Detection (paper and slides),
and at the 2011 ISCA conference in San Jose on Fast Microcode
Simulation (paper).
Got an older PC? No problem! Our SOFTMAC 2000 and FUSION PC 3.0 emulators
are best suited for use with 486 and Pentium based MS-DOS and Windows 95 systems. Download them and bring new life to your old PC.
These emulators use under 1 megabyte of disk space and can be booted from floppy disk, CD-ROM, or the network without requiring prior installation to the hard disk.
SoftMac 2000 CD-ROMs
including Fusion PC and free Mac software are available free of charge. Send a self-addressed stamped disk mailer to receive
your SoftMac 2000 CD-ROM.
Our site also features the free Xformer Atari 400/800 emulator, and Gemulator, the original Atari ST emulator.
NO EXECUTE!
The fundamental design of the microprocessors that power Windows, Mac OS
X, and Linux is flawed. 20 years of security promises have fallen
flat, leading to consumer frustration and a malware epidemic. How can
emulation fix this mess?
Frequently Asked Questions Need help getting started with our products? Want a better understanding of emulation? Your questions are answered here.
Mac disks on the PC Do you need to read a Macintosh or Atari ST disk on your PC to copy over a few files? All you need is our free Gemulator Explorer utility!
SoftMac Info Find out more about SoftMac - the Apple Macintosh emulator for Windows. Check the hardware requirements for your PC, download SoftMac, and learn how to install it and run it.
Pictured above: the CALAMUS SL desktop publishing program for the Atari ST, running in a virtual Atari ST desktop on Microsoft Windows using the Gemulator 2000 Atari ST emulator.
In the summer of 1992 we launched the world's first Atari ST emulator - GEMULATOR.
Originally designed for 486 processors running MS-DOS, Gemulator 2000 emulator offers fast Atari ST and STE emulation on Windows 95, 98, 2000, and XP.
Atari ST emulation page Run TOS, GEM, Calamus, Pagestream, GFA Basic, and other Atari ST and Macintosh Plus software on your PC. Find out how with Gemulator 2000.
Pictured above: two virtual Atari 800 windows running on Microsoft Windows using the Xformer 2000 Atari 8-bit emulator. Each virtual Atari 800 is running a completely different program - one is running Atari BASIC, the other is running the well known game STAR RAIDERS.
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