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Atari Lynx Emulation
In order to test your ROMs you can use emulation. It's quick and easy to set up and debug/test your games in an emulator before testing them out on real hardware. For a comprehensive list of Atari Lynx emulators please refer to this page over at Atari Gamer.
All (mature) lynx emulators, even if embedded into other products, are based on the “handy” emulator code by K.W.. Development was stoped years ago, since then there is no organized bug fixing nor development ongoing. Several (even commercial) emulators use nowadays the handy core from retroarch.
| Emulator | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| Mednafen | Active development | Works on Windows/Linux/*BSD |
| Handy Lynx Emulator (Windows) | Not in current development | This version is not updated since several years. It is missing bugfixes and new features Installing Handy an Atari Lynx emulator on macOS |
| Retroarch Emulator | Active development | Requires 'cores', Lynx cores are based either on Handy or Mednafen |
| Online Lynx Emulator | Web browser only | Runs the web version of RetroArch using the Handy core |