The Best 19 PCE Alternatives

  • VirtualBox icon

    VirtualBox

    VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Mac Solaris

  • QEMU icon

    QEMU

    QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Parallels Desktop icon

    Parallels Desktop

    Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.

    Commercial

  • VMware Fusion

    Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Portable Virtualbox

    portable-virtualbox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a usb stick without separate installation. it unpacks and adjusts the paths and configuration of virtualbox so it will run portably.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • WineBottler

    WineBottler is an App to manage and wrap your Windows apps into convenient OS X apps. WineBottler helps you with running Windows programs on OS X.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Wine

  • bochs

    Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux AmigaOS MorphOS

  • MESS

    MESS emulates portable and console gaming systems, computer platforms and calculators. The project strives for accuracy and portability and therefore is not always the fastest emulator for any one particular system.

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Basilisk II

    Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator. That is, it allows you to run 68k MacOS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux AmigaOS MorphOS

  • Parallels Workstation

    + Professional-grade Virtualization for PCs: Simultaneously run a wide variety of Windows versions, Linux distributions, web stacks, database configurations, and...

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • Steem Engine

    Steem is an open source Atari STE emulator for Windows and Linux. It runs almost every ST program ever made without any problems. Steem is designed to be easy to use and...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Mini vMac

    The Mini vMac emulator collection allows modern computers to run software made for early Macintosh computers, the computers that Apple sold from 1984 to 1996 based upon...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

  • Sheepshaver

    SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment. This...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • QEMU Manager

    qemu manager is an easy to use management tool for the open-source qemu emulator. it has a wealth of features for creating, managing...

    Free Windows

  • Hataroid

    hataroid is an atari st emulator for android based on hatari .

    Free Open Source Android Android Tablet

  • Shoebill

    Shoebill - a Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX (and A/UX only). Shoebill is an all-new, BSD-licensed Macintosh II emulator designed from the ground up with the...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Hatari

    Hatari is an Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator for GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows and other systems which are supported by the SDL library. Features: Hatari...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • ARAnyM

    ARAnyM is a software virtual machine designed and developed for running 32-bit Atari ST/TT/Falcon operating systems and TOS/GEM applications on any kind of hardware.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD