GEKKO Amiga Emulator vs Meta Amiga Emulator

GEKKO Amiga Emulator is a free Android app that emulates Commodore Amiga systems. Its listed emulation covers Amiga graphics, floppy-drive behavior, and hard-disk behavior. Controls include mouse input, virtual mouse controls, and joystick switching between ports 1 and 2. Bluetooth joypads are supported. The app listing describes fast loading and a Force 256 display-aspect option. Users can use a command line to insert text or press a key. GEKKO links to an Android version on Google Play, where the app is listed at free and contains ads. Google Play gives it an Everyone content rating. The developer is named as Gennaro Coda, with an address in Gragnano, Italy, and support is available at [email protected]. The developer’s privacy policy says its apps and games do not collect information. Google Play separately says the app may share device or other IDs with third parties, collects no data, encrypts data in transit, and does not allow data deletion.

Meta Amiga Emulator is a free, open-source project intended to emulate Commodore Amiga systems on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Its planned machine range includes A1000, A500, A500+, A600, A1200, A2000, A3000, A4000, CDTV, and CD32 systems. The specification covers floppy, hard disk, directory-mapped, and CD media, with formats including ADF, Extended ADF, ADZ, DMS, SCP, KryoFlux raw, HDF, and ISO/CUE/CHD. IPF/CAPS support is optional and requires the non-free capsimage library.

The project is written from scratch in C++23 and licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. Kickstart ROMs are not included; the project says it can load ROMs owned by the user and includes AROS as a fallback. However, it is currently pre-alpha and there is no emulator to run. The repository contains design, architecture, build work, and CI. Building the current core requires CMake 3.28 or newer, Ninja, and a supported C++23 compiler, and still does not produce a runnable emulator.