Open source

Licences & source

PixelRetro Player bundles third-party emulators released under free-software licences. The modified source for this site is published so that the terms of those licences are met.

ZX Spectrum player

JSSpeccy 3 — © Matt Westcott. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. Source: github.com/gasman/jsspeccy3.

jsspeccy3-mobile (touch soft keys) — © David Crespo. GPL-3.0. Source: github.com/dcrespo3d/jsspeccy3-mobile.

The ZX Spectrum 48K and 128K ROM images are © Amstrad plc, who permit their free distribution for emulation purposes.

Commodore 64 player

C64 READY — © Morten Øien Eriksen. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Source: github.com/mortyeriksen/c64ready. Our build changes only the hosting path (served from /c64/ rather than a site root) and supplies system ROMs; bundled third-party components keep their own licences as listed in the upstream NOTICE.txt. C64 READY includes three.js (MIT) and Workbox (MIT).

The Commodore 64 KERNAL, BASIC and character ROMs served at /c64/roms/ are the standard images distributed with the VICE emulator and remain the property of their rights holder. They are hosted here so the emulator starts without a ROM upload step and are not covered by the GPL.

Amiga player

vAmigaWeb — © mithrendal and contributors, a WebAssembly port of vAmiga © Dirk W. Hoffmann. Both licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. Sources: github.com/vAmigaWeb/vAmigaWeb and github.com/dirkwhoffmann/vAmiga. Served here unmodified from the project's published build.

The free Kickstart replacements offered on first start — AROS (AROS Public License) and EmuTOS (GPL) — are redistributable. Original Commodore Kickstart ROMs are not hosted; you can supply your own and the emulator keeps them in your browser only.

Arcade player

EmulatorJS — GPL-3.0. Source: github.com/EmulatorJS/EmulatorJS. The player script and emulation cores (FinalBurn Neo, FB Alpha 2012, MAME 2003 — libretro cores compiled to WebAssembly, each under its own licence) are loaded at runtime from the EmulatorJS CDN and are not hosted on this site. No arcade ROM sets are hosted here.

This site

The PixelRetro Player shell (pages, styling, integration) is © PixelRetro. The complete corresponding source of this site, including modifications to the emulators above, is published at github.com/pixelretro/emu.

Not distributed here

The Commodore 1541 drive ROM and original Amiga Kickstart ROM images are not hosted on this site. Games loaded via "Find games…" are served by the Internet Archive, not by PixelRetro. Files you open from your own device stay in your browser and are never uploaded.