Available release of the project eCat 4.5.0, which allows you to emulate old Soviet personal computers and peripheral devices for them, such as disk drives, cartridges, tape recorders and joysticks. Only the hardware is emulated, and the original bootloaders, firmware and operating systems are used, the same ones that came with real computers. Setup is done through a GUI, and ROM images are downloaded from the provided collection. The code is written in C/C++ and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The project has been developing since 2023. Assemblies forming for Linux, macOS and Windows. Assembly in WebAssembly is supported, on the basis of which the online version is launched for working in the browser.
Emulated devices:
- Orion-128
- Radio-86RK (Apogee BK-01TS, Mikrosha, Spectr-001)
- Agat-7, Agat-9
- Irisha (Dialogue, Caspian)
- BK 0010, BK 0010-01, BK 0011M
- UK-NC
- Junior FV-6506, Argo FV-6511
- Poisk-1
- Electronics MS 0585
- DVK-1, DVK-2, DVK-3, DVK-4
- Pravets-82 / 8M / 8A / 8S
- Pravets-8D (Oric Atmos)
The new release adds computer emulation Electronics MS 0585,
Pravets 82/8M/8A/8S and Pravets-8D. Improved emulation of UK-NTs, BK, DVK-1, DVK-2, Radio-86RK and Agat. The phosphor afterglow effect has been implemented. Added auto-saving of floppy disk images and remembering the positions of debugging windows.
