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Launchbox
Launchbox

13.21 / 24-04-2025

Launchbox is a front-end wrapper for emulators. Not only does it automatically download box art for games, it also grabs fanart, screenshots, logos and more to create an immersive experience via BigBox.

 

It also supports arranging and filtering by genre, platform, ESRB rating, developer, publisher, genre, etc. It also includes automated import processes for your MS-DOS games, ROM files, and Steam in order to help get you up and running as quickly as possible. Game box-art and metadata can also be automatically downloaded from their Games Database or community-based online databases.

RomVault
RomVault

3.7.4 / 23-04-2025

RomVault is a GUI-based rom management tool and can be seen as an alternative to Clrmame Pro with additional features at managing large numbers of DAT and/or Roms in a more streamlined process. 

QEMU
QEMU

10 / 23-04-2025

QEMU is an open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance. 

WineD3D
WineD3D

10.6 staging / 21-04-2025

WineD3D For Windows is a DirectX 1-11 to OpenGL wrapper with almost full implementation of DirectX used in Wine. Even if Windows supports DirectX natively, using WineD3D can enhance backwards compatibility with older games, especially on Windows 8+ that don't support 16-bit screen modes. Others possible values include eliminating unsupported versions of DirectX, or porting DirectX applications to OpenGL without having to rewrite the rendering code. That said, it's far from perfect... 

WineHQ
WineHQ

10.6 (Dev) / 21-04-2025

Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a compatibility-layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant systems such as Linux, macOS & BSD.

 

Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine, Wine translates Windows API-calls into POSIX-calls on-the-fly, thus eliminating performance and memory penalties and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

dgVoodoo
dgVoodoo

2.86.1 / 20-04-2025

dgVoodoo is a wrapper for old graphics APIs to run on modern Windows operating systems. Its applied using Direct3D11 with different types of wrapping outputs:

  • Hardware rendering at GPU feature level 10.1 (recommended)

  • Hardware rendering at GPU feature level 10.0 (there are some restrictions)

  • Software rendering through Microsoft WARP renderer


The API's it currently can wrap are:

  • Glide 2.11, Glide 2.45, Glide 3.1 and Glide 3.1 Napalm

  • DirectX 1-7 (all versions of DirectDraw and Direct3D up to version 7)

  • Direct3D 8.1


You also need the 3Dfx splash dlls for Glide if you want 3Dfx splash screen or watermark (shameless plug) through dgVoodoo. 


You may also need D3DRM.dll (Direct3D Retained mode) for some games and demos. It's not part of the OS since Windows Vista.

VirtualBox
VirtualBox

7.1.8 / 16-04-2025

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD/Intel64 virtualization solution for home and enterprise usage. It's quite feature rich, high performance yet is freely available as an Open Source Software. While it's mainly a community effort, Oracle is backing it to ensure it maintains high standards of quality.


Presently, it runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0+, DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.

DXVK
DXVK

2.6.1 / 08-04-2025

DXVK provides a Vulkan-based translation layer for D3D9, D3D10, D3D11 & D3D12. It can be used on Linux with Wine to allow running 3D apps and games designed for Windows on GNU/Linux systems through Wine...


D8VK: An implementation of Direct3D 8 for DXVK. 

  • Check here for me details..


Also, note Vulkan 1.3 is a firm requirement and wine 7.1 or newer.

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