# zboy mit Homebrew installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für zboy in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:zboy
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install zboy
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:zboy
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/zboy>
- **Version:** 0.71
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** GameBoy emulator
- **Homepage:** <https://zboy.sourceforge.net/>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://zboy.sourceforge.net/>
- **Lizenz:** GPL-3.0-or-later
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/zboy/zBoy%20v0.71/zboy-0.71.tar.xz>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-18T02:29:03-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- zboy (cli)
- zboy (Alias)

## Abhängigkeiten

- sdl2-compat

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-04
- Manager-Version: 0.71
- Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-18
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://zboy.sourceforge.net/
- Info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

zBoy is Mateusz Viste's open-source emulator for the original monochrome Game Boy Classic, focused on portability and extra play conveniences rather than Game Boy Color or Advance emulation.

### Projektgeschichte

The project site carries copyright years 2010-2020 and SourceForge lists the project as registered in July 2013. Its public identity is deliberately old-school: a small emulator distributed from SourceForge, available for Linux, DOS, and Windows, and written for the classic DMG Game Boy.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

zBoy appears to have remained a niche emulator rather than a flagship retro-gaming platform. Its durable adoption signal is portability across older desktop and DOS-like environments, plus packaging by Unix-style distributions for users who collect lightweight emulators.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run zBoy with their own Game Boy ROMs and play with keyboard or joypad input. The emulator provides load/save support, PCX screenshots, battery-backed save emulation, graphics scaling filters, high-score preservation for some games, and LAN-based two-player link emulation.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

zBoy is interesting as a compact retro-emulation package: narrow target hardware, simple local execution, uncommon DOS support, and a feature set that preserves link-cable and battery-save behaviors usually hidden behind larger emulator front ends.

### Zeitleiste

- 2010: Project site copyright range begins.
- 2013-07: SourceForge project registration date.
- 2023-11: SourceForge project page records a later activity update.

### Related projects

- VisualBoyAdvance: broader Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulator listed by SourceForge as a related project.
- gnuboy: another portable Game Boy emulator in the same retro-emulation niche.

### Quellen

- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/zboy/ - SourceForge project page lists project registration, activity, categories, implementation language, and feature summary.>
- <https://zboy.sourceforge.net/ - official project site describes the emulator, platforms, features, copyright years, and ROM policy.>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** zboy
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


## Verwandte Links

- [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata.
- [Game and emulation packages](https://pkg.so/de/game-emulation-tools/) - Matched game or emulation metadata.
- [Homebrew utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider.
- [sdl2-compat](https://pkg.so/de/brew/sdl2-compat/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [mgba](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mgba/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, game-boy, games.
- [fs-uae](https://pkg.so/de/brew/fs-uae/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games, retro-gaming.
- [mednafen](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mednafen/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games, retro-gaming.
- [nestopia-ue](https://pkg.so/de/brew/nestopia-ue/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games, retro-gaming.
- [blastem](https://pkg.so/de/brew/blastem/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games, retro-gaming.
- [mame](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mame/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games.
- [dosbox-x](https://pkg.so/de/brew/dosbox-x/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games.
- [vice](https://pkg.so/de/brew/vice/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, emulator, games.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/zboy.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/zboy.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph