An Altair 8800 with no peripherals The is a microcomputer designed by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) based on the Intel 8080 processor. It gained popularity in the mid to late 70's because of publicizing by technical magazines and its low price. It is generally credited with kick-starting the homebrew microcomputer revolution with hackers like Steve Wozniak and Gordon French getting their start with the system.
Using the Due I now have an Altair 8800 simulator that runs at about the original speed, provides 64K of emulated RAM, includes lots of Altair software and still can provide 32K of semi-permanent storage to load and save programs and data in the emulator. Altair 8800 Amstrad CPC Amstrad PCW Apple I Apple II Apple Lisa Apple Macintosh 68k. Atari800Win Plus is an Atari 400/800/XL/XE/5200 emulator for Win32, based upon the Atari800 & Atari800Win sources. Atari800MacX is a Mac OS X port of Atari800, an Atari 800/800XL/130XL and 5200 Emulator.
It is also responsible for the S-100 bus (the bus through which boards were made for everything from keyboards, to modems, to teletypes and monitors) which became a de facto standard in computer bus interfaces until the early 80's. The 8800 is still in use today in hobbyist and homebrew projects, prized for its adaptability. Games There is a multitude of games written for the system, although many of them utilized the front panel of the system and as such do not translate well into emulation.
Emulators PC Name Operating System(s) Latest Version Active Multi-platform ✓ ✓ Multi-platform ✓? Multi-platform ✓? Multi-platform ✓? Notes SIMH A highly portable, multi-system simulator. It mainly 'simulates' many obscure & with custom chips or circuits introduced in the years from the late 1950's to early 1980's, so it's certainly impossible that it covers the 'conventional' Intel -powered computers that were released in the 1980's and 1990's.