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:Inherited X1 support from [[MESS]]. Its X1 Turbo Z and X1 Twin cores are listed as not working as of November 2019. Despite this, the X1 Turbo core is quite decent.

:Born in the late 1990s as X1R, a real-time mode fork of X1EMU, X millennium was the first Sharp X1 emulator for Windows, and unarguably the most influential to date. It was updated until version 0.26d’s release in 2005, when development halted for no apparent reason. Suddenly, in December 2015, a little over ten years of silence, version 0.60a was released, bringing emulation enhancements ported over from [[NEC PC-9800 series|Neko Project II ]] among other small compatibility improvements. The gap between the last two releases was so wide, however, that version 0.60a all but flew under the radar, impacting the existing forks by little to nothing. In early 2019, the developer’s domain name expired and was not renewed, making a new release highly unlikely − at least before 2025, that is.

:The mother of all Sharp X1 emulators. First released in January 1999 and last updated in July 1999, X1EMU is designed to be compatible both with [[Intel CPUs|IBM -PCs ]] and [[NEC PC-9800 series|PC-98s ]] running MS-DOS. The emulator runs in DOS protected mode, as such, it needs a copy of DOS4GW.EXE to sit in the same folder as it. Unlike most of its offspring, it is entirely in Japanese. In late-1990s machines, it might not exhibit this issue, yet in modern computers, its emulation is ridiculously fast, as there seems to be no programmed limitation on the clock speed.

:Probably the first functional Sharp X1 emulator to ever be coded. It was first released through a BBS in '''1993''', when the Sharp X68000 was still on shelves all around Japan. Apparently, it is only capable of emulating the original X1, which means high-res mode applications won’t work. It is also incompatible with the D88 image format, accepting only 2D files. It is hideously outdated and pretty much useless nowadays for anyone who doesn’t own a Sharp X68000, yet it is an important footnote on Sharp X1 emulation history. After its initial release, it was picked up by another developer and received small updates until 1999 (!). Curiously, it has some functions that other emulators wouldn’t pick up on until over one decade later, such as having four emulated floppy drives, the option to change clock speed and not requiring ROM dumps to work. Its configurations are stored in the CONFIG.X1 file; for usage help, use the -? switch on the command line.