.. Emulators

.. _emulators:

Emulators
==========

EAASI relies on several open source projects to actually perform emulation and virtualization. These emulators must be specially containerized into Docker images in order to conform with EAASI's underlying Emulation-as-a-Service architecture. 

Compatible and available emulators are listed below. If you would like more information about the versions of these emulators available in EAASI, their capabilities, and/or their :ref:`limitations <emulator_limitations>`, please raise a question in the `EAASI User Forum <http://forum.eaasi.cloud>`_.

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)