Holani vs Virtual Jaguar

Holani is a free, open-source Atari Lynx emulator for Linux and Windows, released under GPL-3.0. Its cycle-stepped 65C02S emulation began from the design idea of chips’ 6502. The project can also operate as a library for other frontends and links to a libretro core for official games and homebrews. Holani-retro works with libretro frontends such as RetroArch, providing save and load states plus RetroArch cheats. Holani-gtk is a GTK4 frontend for loading cartridges and overriding ROMs. Holani-min provides a command-line interface with button mapping, display filtering, mute, and Comlynx options; multiple instances can connect through Comlynx. The project also lists holani-debug, an Atari Lynx debugger. Holani embeds the Free Lynx Boot ROM and BLL uLoader blobs, so no BIOS is required. GTK builds require Rust, Cargo, and GTK4; Windows libretro use requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable.

Virtual Jaguar libretro is a free, open-source emulator core for Atari Jaguar cartridges and Jaguar CD media. It is designed to run through a libretro frontend such as RetroArch, not as a standalone emulator. The core emulates the Jaguar’s 68000, GPU, DSP, Object Processor, and Jaguar CD hardware. It accepts cartridge formats including .j64, .jag, .rom, .abs, .cof, .bin, and .prg, plus Jaguar CD CUE, CDI, and CHD images. Console and Jaguar CD BIOS images are embedded, so external BIOS files are not required. Through its frontend, the core supports save states, cheats, rewind, run-ahead, netplay, shaders, controller remapping, and fast-forward. Optional settings include true-color rendering, 2× internal resolution, overclock controls, and adjustable CD read speed. Link-cable emulation supports TCP transport and a multi-peer hub. The project notes that the blitter is not fully cycle-accurate, GPU/DSP pipeline hazards are not modeled, and some titles can run too fast. Listed platforms include Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows.