SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Emulators and Emulation

M$ DOS:

• DOSEMU HOWTO   HOWTO about the Linux MS-DOS Emulator, DOSEMU.
• dosemu.org
• Introduction to DOSEMU  Nov'95 LG
• Introduction to Garrot  (speeds up DOSEMU?) Nov'95 LG

M$ Windows:

• WABI: By Sun Microsystems. Available ($) from several vendors like Red Hat and Caldera.
• Willows Software TWIN API
• Newsgroup: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
• Wine FAQ  (at sunsite)
• Wine HQ  (Windows Emulator home page)

Misc:

• The Leminator (misc emulators incl. Amiga, C-64, Arcade machines))
• There is a good Macintosh Emulator available ($). You'll have to search for it.
• Freshmeat: Emulators (text)
• Freshmeat: Emulators (X11)
• Z81, Z81txt, xz81  "ZX81 (TS1000) and ZX80 emulators for svgalib, text mode, and X"

Calculators (Emulators and others):

• GRPN  RPN calculator. Real, complex, matrix, multi-radix.
• XRPN  RPN calculator.
• CDE comes with a great emulation of HP scientific, financial, and programmer's calculators. There's an 'xcalc' and undoubtly many more.

Terminal Emulators:

• With built-in communication support:
  • Also see Communication.
  • IBM 5250 emulator  For connection to IBM AS/400.
  • Term:
    • Term HOWTO  Unmaintained since 15jul95; "term" said to be nearly obsolete.
    • Term  New (nov'98) version of Term.
  • Others: minicom, seyon.
• Without built-in communication support:
  • Linux "Virtual Terminals/Consoles":
    • Virtual Consoles - An Introduction
    • A New Console Driver for Linux
    • Using the Keypad as a VT Switcher  Jan'96 LG
    • Keyboards & Consoles  Aug'96 LG
  • Generic Text Console/Terminal/Screen Stuff:
    • Cheap ANSI Color!  Putting ANSI color codes in text. Aug'96 LG
    • Clearing the screen:
      • Kscreen followup  Jan'96 LG
      • Using kscreen to clean up that Screen Mess!  Nov'95 LG
    • The program SVGATextMode can be used to utilize SVGA video cards to their full potential in text mode. Download it via FTP (user: anonymous) from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/console.
  • aterm  (AfterStep term) is an xterm replacement, based on rxvt. Next scrollbar, etc.
  • Eterm:
    • www.eterm.org
    • Eterm  Home page for Eterm SW dev; variation of rxvt for Enlightenment (and other) Win Mgrs.
  • The "screen" Program  Mar'96 LG
  • setterm:
    • More Setterm Fun  Nov'95 LG
  • Xterm:
    • Updating XTerm Titlebar  Jan'96 LG
    • xterm Title mini-HOWTO  How to put strings into the titlebar of an xterm.
    • Changing that xterm titlebar interactively!  Nov'95 LG
  • Others: kterm, rxvt

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