Category: Cores

The MiSTer Donkey Kong core was derived from the works of Daniel Wallner. The original arcade Donkey Kong game was created when Shigeru Miyamoto was assigned by Nintendo to convert Radar Scope, a game that had been released to test…

The MiSTer Atari 2600 core was derived from the works of Retromaster. The Atari 2600, originally sold as the Atari Video Computer System or Atari VCS until November 1982, is a home video game console from Atari, Inc. Released on…

The MiSTer Vectrex core was derived from the works of Dar. The Vectrex is a vector display-based home video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering. It was licensed and distributed first by General Consumer Electronics (GCE), and…

The MiSTer Apple IIe Plus core was derived from the works of Stephen A. Edwards. The Apple II Plus is the second model of the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer, Inc. It was sold from…

Download the MiSTer Macintosh Plus core and relive 1984! Apple Macintosh The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs…

The MiSTer Defender core was derived from the works of Peter Wendrich. Defender is an arcade video game developed and released by Williams Electronics in 1981. A horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up, the game is set on an unnamed planet…

  The MiSTer BurgerTime core was derived from the works of MikeJ. The original BurgerTime was produced by Bally Midway in 1982. Bally Midway released 96 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1980. Other machines…

The MiSTer Ms Pac-Man core was derived from the works of MikeJ Ms. Pac-Man is the second game in the Pac-Man series, released in arcades in February 1982. Ms. Pac-Man introduced a female protagonist, four different mazes, more colorful graphics,…

  By November of 1981, the chips were completed but Commodore’s president Jack Tramiel decided against using them in the faltering arcade game market.  Instead he tasked the engineers with developing a 64 kilobyte home computer for show at the Winter…