Pretty much everything until around 2003+ at least. Your usual exceptions are Unicode-wanting stuff, DX8/9-wanting stuff, and all those 6th gen-and-later emulators (PCSX2, Dolphin etc) that demand a few CPU extensions and some threading at least.

Back in the day I remember installing Nesticle, Genecyst, NO$GMB, and an early version of MAME on Win95 machines, but those were all DOS based and would run just as well without Win95. I can't remember using any native Windows emulators back then. I'm sure they were out there, but they weren't an option for the under powered machines I was playing with - playing Pokemon Red in NO$GMB on a 386DX40 for example. I also played with emulators for various 8 bit home computers such as the ZX spectrum, Amstrad CPC and TRS-80, but again these were all DOS based emulators running inside Win95 or Win98.

What hardware are we talking about? ZSNES, Snes9x, Fellow/WinFellow, Nesticle, Genecyst, that are some I used back then.

harddrivespin wrote:

Anyone here know of emulators for other machines you can run on Windows 95 other than NESticle?

I don't know much about Win95, but I know there were a few which ran on 3.1..

DOSBox

I want to say I ran old vers of pcem on NT4 but I could be thinking of something else.

I actually dabbled a bit with Emulators with my Windows 98 build, as I used to run NES, SNES, Genesis, and other old emulators just fine back in 1999, but now-a-days it's hella hard to find one that even works in Windows 9x much less smoothly. I dug backwards and found an older Nesticle (DOS) for NES, a really old version of ZSNES (DOS) for SNES, but that's it so far. I'm pleased they seem to run smoothly on my 600MHz Pentium III. I remember them playing perfectly fine with my original 350MHz Pentium II.

Yep. NESticle, ZSNES and Genecyst are a really good start. Even these old 16-bit emulators might not run fantastically on a Win95 era CPU, though. I remember running into some limitations on a P200.

10+ years ago, I found that Project 64 ran at full speed on a Pentium 4 2.4GHz desktop system running Windows 98SE. I think that's way out of the spec of this thread though. This inspires me to try some older emulators on my AMD K6-2 desktop system.

VisualBoyAdvance, ZNES and MEKA ran on Win9x the last time I tried..

I there a win95 version of UAE that works on 486 cpu's on win95a.

Well...IIRC, PCVIC worked on a 486SX33MHz Dos computer and should work on Win95.

back in the day as i remember we used DOS for emulation than windows 95 there was more confidence due to the earlier hardware in the wild like 486 586 CPU, limited RAM, early GPU, and small disks.

dr.zeissler wrote on Yesterday, 16:32:

I there a win95 version of UAE that works on 486 cpu's on win95a.

Seconded, there was definitely a UAE version for 95, I ran it in later 90s. WinUAE probably. It would "run" on a fast 486 but you'd need frameskip on 3 or 4, minimum res, and limit memory and machine to A500... and it would still be a bit too slow for some stuff. Stuntcar Racer could be tweaked to be fairly playable.

If we're counting emulators that run under DOS (which technically will run on W95) - I've written a few for ancient machines I actually owned:

Mits Altair 8800 (8080)
NorthStar Horizon/Vector1+ (Z80)
Heathkit H8 (8080)
MIL Mod8 (8008)
Dunfield D6809 (6809)

You can grab these (and more I didn't write) from "Daves Old Computers" - You can also see photos and more information about the actual machines.

Thx guys, it was my fault, my uaec and uaef do not start on my 486, but the regular uae works, slow but it works. These UAE are all window95 executables and yes, using plain-dos emulators is the better way to go on such a low-end machine. I think I will make a follow up vid for the emulators.

https://youtu.be/uylD7rDSorg?si=Z9uufo5fUs4JdBWK

In the future, please do not necropost. Rather start a new thread, especially as this had run out almost a decade ago.