page_title: Hercules (emulator)
hierarchical_section_title: Hercules (emulator)
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot of emulator Hercules (QPL licence) running in a window in Ubuntu showing GUI of mainframe operating system (OS/360 and compatibles). On the right are the virtual AWS-tapes, DASD volumes and the standard peripherals. CPU running. Deutsch: Screenshot des Emulators Hercules (QPL-Lizenz) auf Ubuntu mit dem GUI des Großrechner-Betriebssystems OS/360 und kompatible. Rechts sind die virtuellen AWS-Bänder und DASD-Speicherplatten, sowie die Standard-Peripherie dargestellt. Aktuelle Version. Emulator läuft.
context_page_description: Hercules is a computer emulator allowing software written for IBM mainframe computers and for plug compatible mainframes to run on other types of computer hardware, notably on low-cost personal computers. Development started in 1999 by Roger Bowler, a mainframe systems programmer.
  Hercules runs under multiple parent operating systems including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X and is released under the open source software license QPL. It is analogous to Bochs and QEMU in that it emulates CPU instructions and select peripheral devices only. A vendor must still provide an operating system, and the user must install it. Hercules was the first mainframe emulator to incorporate 64-bit z/Architecture support.
context_section_description: Hercules is a computer emulator allowing software written for IBM mainframe computers (System/370, System/390, and zSeries/System z) and for plug compatible mainframes (such as Amdahl machines) to run on other types of computer hardware, notably on low-cost personal computers. Development started in 1999 by Roger Bowler, a mainframe systems programmer.
  Hercules runs under multiple parent operating systems including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X and is released under the open source software license QPL. It is analogous to Bochs and QEMU in that it emulates CPU instructions and select peripheral devices only. A vendor (or distributor) must still provide an operating system, and the user must install it. Hercules was the first mainframe emulator to incorporate 64-bit z/Architecture support.
caption: Hercules emulator running in Ubuntu
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