CreatiVEmu

 

Emulators

ColecoDS
Emulator originally developed in 2011 by alekmaul and updated in 2020-2023 by wavemotion-dave for use with the Nintendo DS/DSi. This emulator handles 11 different systems centered around similar hardware including the CreatiVision.
All known CreatiVision games and utilities work - the emulator supports up to 32K ROMs (either mapped Legacy A/B, Linear or 32k Bankswapped) and emulates the CSL expansion RAM from 4000h to C000h for the few homebrews that might need it.

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
ColecoDS Nintendo DS 2023-07-xx xx/07/2023 click to visit homepage click to view screenshot

CreatiVEmu
Emulator by Roberto Ventura, coded in may 2001 for use with MS-DOS and then made Windows-compatible a few months later. It supports all existing ROMs with accurate video and audio emulation. Complete cassette tape player emulation, allowing to load/save BASIC listings through custom "binary log" format.
Unfortunately it's never been publicly released and it's marked as "discontinued" since 2002.

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
CreatiVEmu [unavailable] Windows prv beta - click to visit homepage -
CreatiVEmu GUI [unavailable] Windows prv beta - click to visit homepage click to view screenshot

creatiVision emulator
Excellent emulator originally developed to support the CreatiVision only in 2016 by Kym Greenshields, now also fully emulates the Laser 2001 and Salora Manager home computers through a self-developed version of the BIOS. Great overall emulation quality and an useful option to load programs from cassette and floppy disk images. Programmed with C and SDL. Source code available. No user interface (command-line operated).

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
creatiVision emulator Windows 2023-09-18 18/09/2023 click to visit homepage -
creatiVision emulator (source code) Win/Linux 2023-09-18 18/09/2023 click to visit homepage -

Notice: download files from the official website

CvEmu2
Emulator by Giovanni Ortu, supporting all existing ROMs (except the new formats for 6 and 18KB) with full video emulation, no audio emulation. Featuring a preliminary in-game menu. Programmed with C and SDL, compiled for Windows and Linux. Source code available.

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
CvEmu2 + Spartan 2.0 Windows 0.6.1 06/01/2008 click to visit homepage click to view screenshot
CvEmu2 + Spartan 2.0 Linux 0.6.1 06/01/2008 click to visit homepage -
CvEmu2 (source code) - 0.6.1 06/01/2008 click to visit homepage -
Spartan (graphics interface, source code) - 2.0 06/01/2008 click to visit homepage -

Notice: download files from the auhor's website

FunnyMu
Emulator by Paul Hayter, supporting 4, 8, 10 and 12KB ROMs with full video and audio emulation, unfortunately has no in-game menu and can't be configured. Programmed with C and SDL, based on MAME and ColEm source codes, compiled for Windows and Linux. Source code available.

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
FunnyMu Windows 0.43 02/28/2002 click to visit homepage -
FunnyMu (source code) - 0.43 01/20/2002 click to visit homepage -

FunnyMu (unofficial)
My personal revision of FunnyMu, with a few additions:
 - fully compatible with all currently dumped ROMs (also 6, 10, 16 and 18KB ROM formats)
 - correct colour palette (matching the one in MAME)
 - support for right controller emulation and complete keyboard emulation
 - mathematics bug-fixes here and there
 - screenshot save
 - load/save BASIC listings in plain text format
 - settings stored to .ini file
 - windowed and fullscreen modes available
Windows version is fully compatible with the new CreatiVe-UI graphics interface, also featuring a quite detailed games database with screenshots.
Amiga version also available by Amigan Software.
Wii version also available by Wiimpathy.

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
FunnyMu (unofficial) Windows 0.49 11/09/2009 click to visit homepage -
FunnyMu (unofficial) (source code) Win/Linux 0.49 11/09/2009 click to visit homepage -
FunnyMu (unofficial) Amiga 0.48 R1 07/13/2008 click to visit homepage -
FunnyMu (unofficial) Wii 0.1 11/16/2012 - -
FunnyMu (unofficial) (source code) Wii 0.1 11/16/2012 - -
CreatiVe-UI (graphics interface) Windows 1.12 24/10/2016 click to view screenshot

MAME (formerly MESS)
Since version 0.135 (released on November 7th, 2009), MESS includes my revision of the CreatiVision driver, with a few additions and bug-fixes to previous releases.
Emulation quality is very high, though there's still much work to do in order to add several missing features and to make input management a little bit more user-friendly.
As of 2017, MESS is incorporated in MAME.

Emulator name O.S. Version Date Home Screen
MAME Various 0.193+ - click to visit homepage -

Notice: download files from the official website