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add download links to pre MAME arcade emulators
Before MAME back in 1997, there was multiple standalone arcade games emulators, only capable to emulate a single game. Games like Rygar, Gauntlet, Ghosts'n Goblins, Bombjack, Asteroids, Mr. Do! Series, Pac-Man, Lady Bug, all of them came in your own custom emulator. This was around 1994-1995.
Later, Sparcade by David Spicer <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010202172300/http://www.sparcade.freeserve.co.uk/download.htmSparcade 2.25 and 2.33b Download](1998 and 1999 releases)</ref> was capable of running some arcade games in 1996<ref>[https://www.myabandonware.com/game/sparcade-47o Sparcade!] (1.94 release 1996)</ref>.
1998 was also the year of the release of various complex multiple arcade games emulators, such as Callus <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080701073241/http://bloodlust.zophar.net/Callus/callus.html Callus 0.42 download page]</ref>(Capcom CPS-1) and System16 <ref>[https://system16.com/emu-sys16.php System16 Download page]</ref> (Sega System 16)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19990119235522/http://abyssweb.ml.org:80/s16w32.html original System16 page]</ref>.
===Commodore 64===
The first Commodore 64 emulator appeared on BBSs in early 1990s. C64S is capable of running games on a 286 IBM PC. <ref>[https://commodore.software/downloads/download/193-c64s/11782-c64s-v0-9aC64S v0.9a Download]</ref>
===Atari 2600===
Activision released the “Atari 2600 Action Pack” for Windows 3.1 on June 1995. It was the first Atari emulator known. Later emulators appeared in 1996, “VCS2600” and “Stella”. <ref>
[https://atariage.com/forums/topic/203848-first-atari-2600-emulator/First Atari 2600 emulator? forum question by jhd]</ref>
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