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This website hopes to chronicle all of the commercial software achievements from the one-man operation in the basement to the corporate powerhouses of the industry.
Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1.
This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence the VBE in the name).
Classic Mac emulation in the web browser (WASM), also supports NextSTEP since early 2024.
PC/GEOS open-sourced
Manx is a catalog of manuals for old computers.
Indexes content from bitsavers etc.
NetDrive is a DOS device driver that allows you to access a remote disk image hosted by another machine as though it was a local device with an assigned drive letter. The remote disk image can be a floppy disk image or a hard drive image.
A single device driver works with all versions of DOS starting with DOS 2.0.
SW and HW accelerated GPU driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines - GitHub - JHRobotics/softgpu: SW and HW accelerated GPU driver for Windows 9x Virtual Machines
PalmOS on real (new) hardware, including RP2040. Article with lots of info on PalmOS internals and hardware platforms (like Tapwave Zodiac).
Previous is a NeXT Computer emulator that can boot NeXTStep 0.x to 4.0 beta and OpenStep 4.2 For Mach.
Previous is a NeXT Computer emulator based on the Atari emulator Hatari. It uses the latest m68k emulation core from WinUAE and the i860 emulator from Jason Eckhardt. Previous is confirmed to compile and run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It may also work on other Systems which are supported by the SDL2 library
While the Github project mirror has been archived in 2021, there is still some recent activity on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/p/previous/code/HEAD/tree/branches/
Disk Jockey, a disk image file maker for your retro stuff
Disk Jockey is an application for macOS and Windows that lets you create disk images that work in devices like BlueSCSI, Floppy Emu and PiSCSI / RaSCSI, as well as in emulators like Basilisk II and Mini vMac.
Tavis Ormandy: Uncovering Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX binaries and making them run on Linux
through a combination of unlikely discoveries, crazy hacks and the 90s BBS warez scene I’ve been able to port Lotus 1-2-3 natively to Linux
nono is OMRON LUNA-I/LUNA-88K (and SHARP X68030) emulator runs on NetBSD and etc.
Boots OpenBSD/luna88k, see for example https://bsd.network/@ao_kenji/109056793167347776
A searchable database of vintage displays and the CRTs that power them.
BBBS is a fullfledged BBS system which incorporates all of your needs for setting up your own BBS. It contains full Internet and Fidonet support. Fidonet messages and Internet news and email are embedded together with a versatile WWW-based, offline and online message reading system.
#FujiNet was intended to be a network adapter that attaches to the SIO (Peripheral) port of an Atari 8-bit computer system but has become an all encompassing SIO peripheral emulator. The current hardware is a design based on the ESP32-WROVER module
Collection of driver and installation CD-ROMs at the Internet Archive
A fork of TenFourFox
connecting an external battery to a Dallas DS1x87 clock chip
A public-domain archive of the v2.1 (March 2003) Sun System Handbook on CD-ROM
PalmOS syscall emulator aiming to run PalmOS binaries on various platforms.