Links - other operating systems
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alternative operating systems
- AmigaOS While the main link takes you to the company which owns the rights to (and still develops and maintains) the AmigaOS, a number of other sites are scattered around the internet which can provide support and software downloads. Amiga Inc is one of these sites (and includes a number of links to many of the others).
- BeOS Although BeOS is no longer being developed, or officially supported it still has a loyal following and a surprising amount of new software is still developed to run on BeOS. Several sites exist which continue to assist users of BeOS including BeBits, IsComputerOn and BeDrivers.com.
- eComStation (also known as eCS) .
- Free DOS .
- Haiku OS .
- MorphOS .
- MS-DOS .
- NetWare .
- OS/2 and OS/2 Warp .
- PC-DOS .
- Plan 9 Also known as Plan 9 from Bell Labs, the Plan 9 operating system was first made available in 1992 and is still being developed and maintained.
- ReactOS .
- RISC OS .
- Syllable .
- Zeta Although the BeOS is no longer being developed under that name and Be Inc (which used to produce it no longer exists), development of many of it's features and interface has continued under the name of Zeta. The Zeta operating system maintains compatibility with many applications written for BeOS.
emulation and virtual machine software
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Most emulation software applications allow a computer to pretend to be using a different type processor and/or hardware components. Doing this makes it possible to then operate as if it were a different computer.
This then allows software which was written for the computer system which is being emulated to run on your computer.
- Basilisk II Gwenole Beauchesne provides an alternative source of information and downloads on his personal website.
- Bochs .
- Boot Camp .
- Ceedo .
- Mini vMac .
- moka5 .
- MojoPac .
- Migo .
- Parallels .
- PearPC .
- QEMU .
- SheepShaver Gwenole Beauchesne provides an alternative source of information and downloads on his personal website.
- VirtualBox .
- Virtual PC (for use on Windows)
- Virtual PC (for use on PPC based Macs)
- Virtual Server .
- Virtual Iron .
- VMware .
- Xen .
The most common use of emulation software tends to be to allow older computer systems, games consoles or arcade machines to run in a window on a modern computer. Sites like The Vintage Gaming Network list a wide variety of emulators.
The small selection I have included on this page focus upon emulators of computer systems and are some of the better known and more popular ones.