.. Emulators

.. _emulators:

Emulators
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EAASI relies on several open source projects to actually perform emulation and virtualization. These emulators have been containerized into Docker images to allow for swapping in new emulators (or different versions of an emulator) to an EAASI installation.


Links to Source Projects
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- `QEMU <https://www.qemu.org/>`_ (x86 PC emulation/virtualization, PowerPC 9.1-10.x Mac OS emulation)
- `SheepShaver <https://sheepshaver.cebix.net/>`_ (PowerPC Mac OS 8.x-9.0 emulation)
- `Basilisk II <https://basilisk.cebix.net/>`_ (late 68k series Mac emulation)
- `VICE (Versatile Commodore Emulator) <http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/>`_ (Commodore series emulation)