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86Box – An Introduction to PC Emulation
86Box – An Introduction to PC Emulation
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I’ve been using 86Box for some time now and figured I was finally ready to talk about it. It’s one of my go to applications when …
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You had to run the 8088 mph demo. As they say, this demo breaks all emulators 🙂
Actually… random thought. This would be huge for setting up an automated testing farm for various modern 32-bit OSes like ArcaOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, etc as well as testing IA16-GCC and OSes like ELKS for 16-bit Linux subset experience, and testing microwindows for windowing on that old hardware.
The 386 is in a particularly weird area for OS support.
Bro do even be emulating the 1990s in dude-form.
Fun thing about the on-the-fly ISO-9660 generation (what happens when you select a folder for the CD drive): it generates both Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions. The former is useful for long file names for Windows (95/98/Me, NT4 and above), the latter for running Linux and FreeBSD inside of 86Box. If your host is Linux, it'll pass the exact same ownership and modes as on the host file system.
I love emulation, but emulating and displaying it as not emulation is wrong
I just wish Ryzen ran VMs better. Installing Windows 98 on a VM was much much much much much much much much easier than finally figuring out how to get PCem running last year.
I've had to do the win 98 install form hdd once because the system refused to fully install windows from the cd-rom drive at phase 2 of installation
So I can emulate my Socket 7 AMD K166 with a matrox mystique and play Quake 2, Oni, and Turok like its 1999? Just need to find a CRT now.
Love everything about 86Box — though I may have died a little inside when you said you'd rather have had an AWE64 Gold over an Aureal Vortex 2. Positional audio was just so wildly better on my Aureal card than anything Creative had out… basically ever. I just couldn't switch out to EAX after Aureal spoiled me.
Will there ever be a way to emulate Voodoo 5 and 4 just wondering?
Man you got me! For AGES I've been wondering how you get pixel perfect VGA capture and I've been on this wild ride trying to get that exact setup. Now it all makes sense. You're cheating hah! Jokes aside, I run 86box on my M1 MacBook Air to run Windows 98 and the performance is amazing on Apple Silicon. It was the one thing I was worrying about when I was planning on making the move but I'm glad I found out about it. Great video!!
I am still waiting for good Windows XP emulator that can scale games properly. VMWare Workstation is the only one that is capable.
This sounds superior to DosBox in many ways. I may need to look into this. Thanks for this video. I was totally unaware of this.
What's the difference/advantage over PCem in a nutshell?
Thanks for this! Seems like great complimentary software or even an alternative (in my use case) to wine, dosbox and qemu. Going to check it out!
It is great an all but why there are no native android version exist? Ok it working under windows emulator, but running an emulator under and emulator is not the most effective thing ever, so i just keep using limbo/bochs/dosbox.
Edit after i watch the video.: ok it is not for people who just want to play old games, there are easier way to that. It is for emulating retro hardware components.
game maker graphics are miess up some reason it works fine in DOSBox-X emul
dude, think of companies that somehow had some software made for them or any thing that was built for 98, XP, if you can have the security of a Linux machine and emulating the software on a virtual machine with very limited access to outside, will it catch viruses? I'm talking about companies that had their own proprietary shit, they would definitely be interested on running this.
maximum G Force Coasters miss up graphics on newer virions windows thanks goodness for this i have windows 95 installed in this emul
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now i remember this i have tryed it befor its great
Here's a challenge: can it emulate a 286 with an amber monochrome display? What about a tape drive connected to a SCSI controller?
i been using dosbox-x seems be good
any luck interfacing with greaseweasel & Co for direct floppy drive access? And/or USB CD/floppy drives?
This is the route I went for my summer project of writing a game engine from scratch on a 386SX based Win3.1 system without having to dig up the hardware I have and buying what else I would need. I already write software on a real Apple IIgs and Mac iici (both were loaded with the best expansion/accelerator/upgrades you could get at the end of their life since both were used as workstations at my uncles work…and they didn't cap how much he could spend on building/upgrading them), for a hobby that I don't want to sink a ton of money into that's good enough for me. I have a real 386DX and a few 486 boards, just never had the "I'm more of a buffed up 286 than 386" 386SX to write programs on. It's every bit the potato I figured it was, but it did make me want to try and put together a 386SX machine.
After fighting with poor documentation and getting 86box to a point where it can boot an unformatted partition, I find out there is no way to get it to talk to my real physical optical drive.
Thank you for the flashback I had from hearing the music in revolt. We often played it back then via LAN…
Could you do a video on cloning a disk image to a real hard drive? I'm guessing you probably just use dd but it might be a good tutorial for making OS drives for hardware without needing to burn CDs, make floppies etc.
I'd like to see how the original Wing Commander runs in this environment compared to DosBox
awesome video not sure I would ever use it as I have retro machines, but this has always been in the back of my mind and it's features to me are mind blowing, I still have a box full of old cpu's and have loads 386 chips lol
Getting a modern PC to boot can be just as hard as those old systems, especially if you have an ASUS motherboard. I spent over an hour trying to get mine to boot from a USB drive. Legacy mode is aptly named.
This video has made me try moving my windows 98 install from PCem to 86 Box and I have the hardware set up to be the same, aside from the motherboard so I need to get the drivers off the windows 98 CD. And I didn't think to make a copy of my VHD before booting it… oops.
I hope in future there will an emulator like this that could emulate pentium 3.
Gosh, I'd love to try this out but I just remembered I threw out my stack of 20 Win98 install disks. Darn /s
If i follow your video guide 1:1, my WIN98 freezes after installation gui and hangs on boot view… I might go with xp … Tried to change the hardwares but still freezes after every single install. Also downloading the nightly builds is a nightmare since the webpage is slow like hell… 😀
Showcasing new retro products would be interesting, too 😊
As emulation becomes more accurate, it's the future. Am all for FPGA and software emlation and only a handful of real reto systems.
I´m running win98se in a Oracle VirtualBox VM, but this emulator is another beast, so much fine details like bios video cards and chipsets to choose! Amazing! virtualbox has a serious problem with sound glitches and graphics acceleration, there are very few hardware emulation options.. besides that you can take snapshots of the machine states and revert back and forth when things go wrong, its excellent.
Honestly, this is what I thought dosbox was when I first heard about it. This is awesome!
It's quite a feat that PCem and 86Box pull off. I constantly have issues with DosBox that I hope these can work around.
However, I have the feeling the SB16 emulation is broken in BOTH of them. Select and AWE32, the AWE part works, but the SB part doesn't. AdLib part works as well.
I have the standard SB DOS drivers for this, and it's initialized. Yet no software, also not my own, does detect an SB.
Does anybody have suggestions for this? I specifically need the SB16 for DOS audio development (and that's also where DosBox is no reliable candidate, as it behaves different from a real machine and has its very own set of bugs when using Borland Pascal)