Open Emu Beta
Open Emu - Game emulation for Mac OS X
Open Emu is an open source project to bring game emulation to OS X as a first class citizen, leveraging modern OS X technologies such as Cocoa, Core Animation and Quartz, and 3rd party libraries like Sparkle for auto-updating. Open Emu is based on a modular architecture, allowing for game-engine plugins, this means Open Emu can support a host of different emulation engines and back-ends while retaining a familiar OS X native front-end.
Currently Open Emu incorporates the following game engines as plugins:
- CrabEmu
adds support for Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG - 1000 - Gambatte
adds support for Game Boy and Game Boy Color - Gens/GS
adds support for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and Sega 32x - Nestopia
adds support for NES/Famicom - SNES9x
adds support for SNES and Super Famicom - Visualboy
adds support for Game Boy Advance
Open Emu also supports high quality scaling using Open GL, multithreaded video and audio playback as well as individual features and preferences per game engine, such as NTSC video signal emulation for the Nestopia Core.
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Open Emu-QC leverages the modularity and plugin architecture of Open Emu and brings it to Quartz Composer, Apple's graphical programming environment. You can now bring your favorite ROMs into Quartz Composer (and any application that supports Quartz Composer documents) allowing you to post-process, add effects and play your ROMs in new and interesting ways.
