Editing Atari Lynx emulators

{{Infobox console
|title = Atari Lynx
|logo = Atari-Lynx-I-Handheld.png
|developer = [[:Atari]], Epyx
|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|Fourth generation]]
|release = 1989
|discontinued = 1995
|emulated = {{✓}}
}}

The '''[[wikipedia:Atari Lynx|Atari Lynx]]''' was a fourth-generation handheld game console released by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] on September 1, 1989 and it retailed for {{Inflation|USD|179.99|1989}}. It has a WDC 65SC02 CPU. Notably, it was the world's first handheld system that used a color LCD screen, as well as having fairly advanced graphics for the time.

Unlike contemporaneous machines its architecture is based upon a frame buffer and a scaling blitter, providing both 2d sprite and background scaling and hardware support for lines and filled triangles. Because it has no inherent concept of a tile map or any sprite-specific hardware, the drawing budget is per frame rather than per line; there is no enforced limit in terms of number of sprites or sprites per line other than that implied by the amount of drawing that can be achieved within an acceptable frame rate.

==Emulators==
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;width:100%"
! scope="col"|Name
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest version
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Should not be confused with link-cable emulation.">Netplay</abbr>
! scope="col"|<abbr title="multi-player link-cable">[https://forums.atariage.com/topic/53585-best-comlynx-games/ Comlynx]</abbr>
! scope="col"|<small>[https://retroachievements.org/gameList.php?c=13 Retro<br/>Achievements]</small>
! scope="col"|[[libretro]]
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
! scope="col"|Active
! scope="col"|[[Recommended emulators|Recommended]]
|-
! colspan="10"|PC / x86
|-
| [[Mednafen]]<br/><small>[https://docs.libretro.com/library/beetle_lynx/ mednafen_lynx_libretro]</small>
| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
| [{{MednafenURL|releases}} {{MednafenVer}}]<br/>[https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]
| {{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA>Only with Retroarch version.</ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| [[MAME]]
| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
| [http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| Felix
| align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
| [https://github.com/laoo/Felix {{FelixVer}}]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| [[OpenEmu]]
| align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
| [http://openemu.org {{OpenEmuVer}}]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| [[Handy]]<br/><small>[https://docs.libretro.com/library/handy/ Handy_libretro]</small>
| align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
| [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]<br/>[https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkn27s28t79xiye/Handy0.971.zip?dl=0 0.971]
| {{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{~}}<ref group=N>Libretro core is still active.</ref>
|{{✗}}
|-
! colspan="10"|Mobile / ARM
|-
| [https://docs.libretro.com/library/handy/ Handy_libretro]
| align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS}}
| [https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/ libretro core]
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{~}}
| {{✓}}
|-
|Lynx.emu
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.LynxEmu {{.emuVer}}][https://github.com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha git]
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✗}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|{{✓}}
|-
! colspan="10"|Consoles
|-
| Handy<br/><small>[https://docs.libretro.com/library/handy/ Handy_libretro]</small>
| align=left|{{Icon|XB1|SXS|Wii|3DS}}<ref group=N>Retroarch compatible platforms.</ref><br/>{{Icon|PSP}}<br/>{{Icon|PSV}}<br/>{{Icon|Saturn}}<br/>{{Icon|GCWZero}}
| [https://www.retroarch.com/?page=platforms libretro core]<br/>[https://archive.org/details/handypsp.7z Handypsp]<br/>[https://github.com/frangarcj/HandyVITA/releases Handy VITA]<br/>[https://github.com/raz0red/wiihandy WiiHandy]<br/>[https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-handy-3ds-atari-lynx-emulator.394329/ Handy-3DS]<br/>[http://vberthelot.free.fr/Atlas/RB_AllStars_060323.rar 06/03/23 Saturn]<br/>[https://github.com/gameblabla/handy-rs97 git]
| {{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref>
| {{✗}}
| {{~}}<ref group=N name=lrRA></ref>
| {{✓}}
| {{✓}}
| {{~}}
| {{✓}}
|-
| PLynx
| align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
| [https://archive.org/details/plynx-v-09.7z 0.9]
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✗}}
| {{✓}}
| {{✗}}
| {{~}}
|}
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<references group=N/>

===Comparison===
;[[Mednafen]]
:Based upon Handy, but unlike other forked cores, its emulation only improves upon the original. Despite having the .lnx extension, No-Intro ROMs aren’t directly compatible with Mednafen nor Handy and must be converted with make_lnx, which is bundled with Handy.

;Felix
:Inspired by Handy. Created in C++20 using DirectX. Under MIT License. It's a Cycle Exact Atari Lynx Emulator with good compatibility. It has a simple GUI and can load roms in .lnx, .lyx and .o format, change rotation and eeprom properties, has Xinput Gamepad support and redefinable key mapping.

;[[Handy]]
:Hasn't been updated since 2007. Only included here for reference.

===BIOS===
All emulators require [[Emulator_Files#Atari_Lynx|a dump of the 512-byte BIOS]] named <code>lynxboot.img</code>. On Mednafen, put it on the root folder.

{{Atari}}

[[Category:Consoles|!Lynx]]
[[Category:Handheld consoles|!Lynx]]
[[Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles|!Lynx]]
[[Category:Atari consoles|!Lynx]]
[[Category:Atari Lynx emulators|!Lynx]]
[[Category:65C02-based]]