Holani

Holani is a free, GPL-3.0 Atari Lynx emulator for Linux and Windows, built with cycle-stepped emulation. The project also provides Holani as a library that other frontends can use. Holani-retro is a libretro implementation for frontends such as RetroArch, with save and load states and RetroArch cheat support. Holani-gtk is a GTK4 frontend that can load a cartridge and override its ROM. Holani-min is a command-line frontend with button mapping, display filtering, mute and Comlynx options; its README says multiple instances can connect through Comlynx. The project lists holani-debug, an Atari Lynx debugger built around Holani. Its 65C02S CPU emulation initially follows the idea and design of chips’ 6502. Holani embeds the Free Lynx Boot ROM and BLL uLoader binary blobs, so a BIOS is not required. The linked libretro core supports official games and homebrews. Building the GTK frontend requires Rust, Cargo and GTK4. On Windows, the libretro README requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable. The repository identifies the software as GPL-3.0 licensed and open source.

Holani offers several ways to run and develop with Atari Lynx emulation, including libretro, GTK, command-line and debugging tools. Its build prerequisites and Windows runtime requirement are the main setup details to check first.

Holani suits Linux and Windows users who want to run Atari Lynx software through libretro, GTK or command-line frontends. Developers can also use its emulator library or debugger.