If you’re struggling to source a Pi, or don’t want to do retro gaming on one, you’ll be pleased to hear that all of the emulators and platforms we mention here are available for your PC, too. Emulating newer platforms, such as high-end Amigas and PlayStation, will perform better there too.
If you have an old PC lying around, then you might want to skip the emulation part and run some DOS classics natively. You don’t even need a dubiously obtained copy of MS-DOS: the open-source FreeDOS project (https:// freedos.org) saw a new release in February 2022. That might seem like a while ago, but it’s been feature complete for many years and doesn’t have the security (or breakage) concerns of modern software. Alternatively, you can run them on modern Linux via DosBox. You’ll find a list of open-source games at https://hellricer.github. io/2020/11/01/opensourcemsdos-games.html.