Alternatives to Atari800
A portable, free emulator for Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 console. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Atari800
A portable, free emulator for Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 console.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Atari800.
Altirra
A cycle-exact emulator for Atari 8-bit computers and the Atari 5200 console.
Altirra emulates the same Atari 8-bit line and 5200 with cycle-exact accuracy and development tools, but it runs only on Windows, including native ARM64 builds.
MAME
Documents and recreates thousands of arcade machines, consoles and old computers, with accuracy as the point.
MAME covers thousands of arcade machines, consoles and computers in one accuracy-focused program on Windows, macOS and Linux, but it has no Android build and needs exact ROM sets.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Stella
The reference Atari 2600 emulator, developed since the 1990s.
Javatari
An Atari 2600 emulator that runs in the web browser, with netplay and save states.
Hatari
An Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator that closely reproduces the original hardware.
BigPEmu
An Atari Jaguar emulator that runs the entire retail game library at full speed.
VICE
A long-running emulator for Commodore 8-bit computers, including the C64, C128, VIC-20, PET and Plus/4.
Fuse
The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator, an accurate emulator for the ZX Spectrum family and its clones.
