Mike Murphy (mike@emu7800.net) - 12/31/2025
EMU7800 offers classic video game nostalgia on demand! It emulates the Atari 7800 ProSystem video game console (c. 1987) that was also backward compatible with the older and more popular Atari 2600 Video Computer System. EMU7800 was originally completed in 2003 as a .NET programming exercise. It continues to be maintained to the present day as a non-commercial endeavor. Feel free to email feedback. Enjoy!
Finished eliminating dependencies on Windows to facilitate ports to other platforms.
- Added Linux ARM, Linux ARM64 targets using SDL3
- Included a WinSDL3 target for convenient dev/testing SDL3 builds on Windows
- Added experimental OSX X64, OSX ARM64 targets using SDL3
The .NET 10.0 SDK and Git are required to build EMU7800 from source.
Obtain the source by cloning the GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/emu7800/emu7800.github.io.git
Run the following from a command-prompt at the root of the source folder:
dotnet msbuild /t:Clean
dotnet msbuild
The Default target will build and drop everything under a newly created artifacts\ sub-folder.
All deployments are .NET self-contained deployments.
If this is run on Windows, platform-optimized native executables (i.e., an AOT build) will be produced for Windows targets. Non-Windows targets will be built as ReadyToRun, single-file managed executables.
If this is run on the other platforms (e.g., Linux ARM, Linux ARM64), platform-optimized native executables will be produced only for that specific platform.
OSX 64 and OSX ARM64 targets are experimental and have not been tested. Use the /t:DefaultExp to build those targets.
To turn off AOT builds, specify /p:PublishAot=false on the msbuild command-line.
To build the Win32 Installer, the Inno Setup Compiler 6.5.4 is required.
Run the following from a command-prompt at the root of the source folder on a Windows system:
dotnet msbuild /t:BuildWin32Installer
This will drop an installer executable EMU7800Setup-x64-x.y.z.exe into the artifacts\ folder.
The SDL3 dependencies likely will not be pre-installed on your Linux system, so run the following to install them:
sudo apt install libsdl3-0
sudo apt install libsdl3-image0
sudo apt install libsdl3-ttf0
Deploy EMU7800 by unzipping the built .zip archive from the artifacts/ folder to the designated deployment location on your Linux system:
unzip ./EMU7800.<linuxtarget>bin.x.y.z.zip -d <path-to-deployment-folder>
Alternately, the executable can be built and run from source.
In your ~/.bashrc file (or equivalent), add the artifacts/ folder to your
path in the typical unixy way:
# This is the location of the EMU7800 source repo, could be different than this:
export EMU7800_ROOT=/srv/git/emu7800.github.io
# For <linuxtarget>, choose linuxarm or linuxarm64 to match your system:
export PATH=$PATH:$EMU7800_ROOT/artifacts/EMU7800.<linuxtarget>bin
For fans of the Palm/HP webOS platform, Alan Morford has made a port available on the webOS Archive available here. The Github source repo is here.