Little Arcade System Emulator Releases

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Little Arcade System Emulator Releases
Developer Jennifer McMurray, Steven Harris
Mike Green (Sinvader)
Domenico Dato (BeOS, Linux, Windows)
ATani (iPAQ, WinCE)
Publisher https://laser.sourceforge.net/
Platforms BeOS, DOS, Dreamcast, iPAQ, Linux, Windows CE
Released January 30, 2000 - August 31, 2013
Added to
Museum
February 23, 2019

Little Arcade Emulator Releases or LASER, originally known as Lopantu's Arcade Emulator Releases, is a multiple arcade machine emulator by Jennifer McMurray and Steven Harris, originally based on Sinvader by Mike Green.

It was first released for DOS using the Allegro development library by Jennifer McMurray on January 30, 2000. This version was heavily based, with permission, on Mike Green's Sinvader source code which was released on September 16, 1999.

LASER 0.9 was ported by several people to other platforms. It was ported to Windows by Atani Software on August 3, 2000. Domenico Dato ported it to Linux on August 1, 2000, to BeOS on August 6, 2000, and to Compaq iPAQ and Windows CE on October 30, 2000.

LASER was then ported to the Dreamcast as LaserDC by Steven Harris, on October 15, 2001. On March 23, 2004, ss_teven overhauled the LASER codebase to utilize the portable development library Simple Directmedia Layer, or SDL.

To run the CPUs of the supported board sets, it uses the Z80 emulation core by Marat Fayzullin and the 6502 emulation core by Marat Fayzullin and Alex Krasivsky.

Games officially supported by LASER

LASER was originally created to support Space Invaders, but it has since expanded to support several other games. It currently supports 35 games.

Name Developer Released Notes
Alien Invasion Margamatics Video 1979 Space Invaders bootleg.
Astro Laser Leisure Time Electronics 1980 Space Laser bootleg.
Balloon Bomber Taito 1980
Cosmic Monsters Universal 1979
Galaxy Wars Universal 1979
Indian Battle Taito 1980
Invader's Revenge Zenitone Microtech 1979 Dutchford release also supported.
Jatre Specter Jatre USA 1979 Space Invaders modification licensed by Taito.
Lunar Rescue Taito 1979
Ozma Wars Shin Nihon Kikaku 1979
Space Attack Sega 1979
Space Attack II Zenitone Microsec 1980 Clone of Super Invaders.
Space Invaders Taito 1978
Space Invaders Deluxe Taito 1979 Midway-published version of Space Invaders Part II.
Space Invaders Part II Taito 1979
Space Invaders Part Four Unknown 1978 Space Invaders bootleg
Space King Konami 1978
Space Laser Taito 1980
Space Phantoms Zilec Electronics 1979 Ozma Wars bootleg
Space War Part Three Unknown 1978 Space Invaders bootleg.
Star Wars Yamashita 1979 Galaxy Wars bootleg
Super Invaders Zenitone-Microsec 1978 Emag version also supported.
Ultra Invaders Konami 1980 Space Invaders modification licensed by Taito.
Yosaku and Donbei Wing 1979