You'll need a font if you want text characters to display properly in most cases. Besides the emulator, you'll need a set of floppy disk images (FDI, FDM, NFD, D88.) or a hard disk image (HDI, HDM, NHD.). The PC-9800 series of personal computers had floppy disk drives (FDD) and hard drives (HDD) which contained the actual games and software to be loaded.

Usage Note: This tutorial was adapted from this resource. Able to boot MS-DOS, Windows 98 and Windows 2000, but software compatibility is hit or miss. QEMU/9821 A fork of QEMU that supports PC-9800 architecture. Support for the first batch or so of PC-98 games have started to be added to MAME in 0.201 (Aug 2018). MAME It has drivers for various revisions but as of version 0.189, all of them are reported as Not Working. While it's very easy to set up, its PC-98 system is not yet complete. DOSBox-X A very active fork of DOSBox that, among other things, adds support for the PC-98 as a target system. Some programs may have trouble running on this emulator due to so-called 'EPSON protection' that prevents them from running on EPSON clones. Anex86 Another decent PC-98 emulator, which emulates EPSON PC-286/386/486 series which is a series of PC-98 clone computers made by EPSON Corporation rather than PC-98 series made by NEC. Neko Project II kai A more libretro-focused fork, which has also merged several improvements from 21/W. Neko Project 21/W Based on Neko Project II but with a focus on PC-9821 series with enhanced options (CPUs, memory sizes, sound sources) as well as support for LAN board, PCI bus, CD-DA, windows accelerators, fmgen and so on. Its major drawback is the non-remappable controls. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Only available as a libretro core outside of Windows and Linux.Ĭomparisons Neko Project II The best PC-98 emulator out there but went inactive since March 2016.

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