Holani

What Holani is

Holani is a free, open-source Atari Lynx emulator for Linux and Windows, with several ways to run it or build around it. The project offers a library for other frontends, a libretro implementation for use with a frontend such as RetroArch, a GTK4 app, and a command-line frontend. The libretro version supports save and load states and RetroArch cheats. Holani-gtk can load a cartridge and override its ROM; Holani-min offers button mapping, display filtering, mute, and Comlynx, including connections between multiple instances. A separate debugger, holani-debug, is also listed. Its 65C02S emulation advances cycle by cycle and draws initially on the design of chips’ 6502. Holani includes the Free Lynx Boot ROM and BLL uLoader binary blobs, so no BIOS is required. The project links to a libretro core for official games and homebrews and identifies its license as GPL-3.0. GTK builds require Rust, Cargo, and GTK4; Windows libretro use requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable.