JPC

Up until the development of JPC, there was no pure Java emulators for the PC available in the market. The feat achieved by the developers of JPC is incredible, considering the amazing number of changes the x86 PC has undergone over the past several years. I find the speed achieved by JPC to be all the more remarkable considering the fact they have had to incorporate so many optimizations. The fact that the JPC runs at such a fantastic speed in spite of having to boot up over a 16-bit real mode of an operating system is simply outstanding. I am not sure if the capability to boot up a fully graphical linux would be supported by JPC in the coming months. I'd sure be amongst the first to test it when it does get released.

JPC makes an ideal platform for doing security research considering the number of security features that are built in. Except anti-virus experts to come up with solutions for more and more viruses, worms and other malicious attacks to a PC without the fear of losing their own machines. With the cross-platform capability built in (by virtue of running in the Java sandbox), I think JPC should become very very popular very very soon. I haven't actually checked out the built-in DOS games that are available along with the emulator. Maybe I should do that pretty soon. :)