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How to Sparky APTus Gamer

Sparky APTus Gamer features an easy way to install game consoles, emulators and other tools helpful for gamers. All the applications are installable from Debian, Sparky and 3th party repositories.

Sparky APTus Gamer is preinstalled in Sparky GameOver edition, but can be installed in every edition via the command:

 sudo apt-get install sparky-aptus-gamer

The list of the tools available to install via APTus Gamer:

AdvanceMENU - frontend for AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, MAME, MESS, xmame, Raine and other emulators
Atari800 - emulator for Atari 8-bit systems, XE Game System and Atari 5200 SuperSystem
DeSmuME - Nintendo DS emulator
DOSBox - DOS emulator for BeOS, Linux, Mac OS X, OS2, and Windows
DOSEMU - DOS Emulator for Linux
ePSXe - enhanced PSX emulator
FCEUX - Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Famicom and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator
FS-UAE - Cross-platform Amiga emulator
GNOME Video Arcade - Simple MAME frontend
Hatari - Atari ST, STE, TT and Falcon emulator for Linux and other systems
Higan - Emulator for Nintendos SNES, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance
Kega_Fusion - Sega SG/SC/SF, Master System, Game Gear, Genesis/Megadrive, SVP, Pico, SegaCD/MegaCD emulator
MAME - Hardware emulator which faithfully reproduces the behavior of many arcade machines
Mednafen - Atari Lynx, GameBoy, NES, SNES, PC-FX, Sega, Sony PlayStation and others systems
MESS - Emulator for various consoles and computing systems
Nestopia - Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom emulator
PCSX - Sony PlayStation emulator
PlayOnLinux - Front-end for Wine
PPSSPP - PPSSPP is an open source PSP emulator available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Android
Steam - launcher for the Steam software distribution service - OnLine installer
Stella - Atari 2600 Emulator for SDL and the X Window System
VisualBoyAdvance - Full featured Game Boy Advance emulator
Virtual Jaguar - Cross-platform emulator for Atari's infamous Jaguar console
Wine - Windows API implementation
Winetricks - a POSIX shell script 'package manager' for WINE to install some Windows software easily
Yabause - Sega Saturn emulator
ZSNES - Emulator for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System