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1. Made the 924 BIOS use the AT&T 491 ramdac since it supports such (tested). 2. Tweaks to the 928 Brooktree ID detection to make sure the cursor is shown correctly in 16bpp+ modes (it uses the BT485 ID detection so that it knows what BT is using to accommodate the cursor model). 3. Refactored the mode (CRTC50) and pitch timing stuff (moved to recalctimings for example) so that drivers/games/operating systems and what not can be used normally. (Warning, more stuff is to be tested due to a gazillion of combinations used by said stuff). 4. VRAM wraparound is now working as it should, fixes Commander Keen games. 5. Indentation fixes. 6. Attempt to fix 15/16bpp mode acceleration used by the 911/924 chips (not perfect and still has bugs). 7. Added the remaining missing stuff of the Sierra SC1502x RAMDAC including its 8BIT setting. 8. Some drivers use FIFO bits in non-FIFO configurations, should fix hang ups in some instances (namely the 928 S3 2.3 NT 3.1 drivers and possibly more). 9. Separated the 911/924 acceleration from the 80x/928+ one though the use of a function pointer. 10. Fixed the inverted colors in some instances using the S3 Trio64 driver in Win9x (mainly on soft reboots). 11. CX/CY (non-Blits) and DX/DY (Blits) wraparound correctly during their respective operations, fixes OS/2 software cursor once again while keeping existing stuff working. 12. Added some comments to keep track of some anomalies. 13. Fixed some badly formatted if's and switches. 14. Limited the SPEA Mercury Lite VRAM to 1MB per real world configurations.
86Box
86Box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
Features
- Easy to use interface inspired by mainstream hypervisor software
- Low level emulation of 8086-based processors up to the Mendocino-era Celeron with focus on accuracy
- Great range of customizability of virtual machines
- Many available systems, such as the very first IBM PC 5150 from 1981, or the more obscure IBM PS/2 line of systems based on the Micro Channel Architecture
- Lots of supported peripherals including video adapters, sound cards, network adapters, hard disk controllers, and SCSI adapters
- MIDI output to Windows built-in MIDI support, FluidSynth, or emulated Roland synthesizers
- Supports running MS-DOS, older Windows versions, OS/2, many Linux distributions, or vintage systems such as BeOS or NEXTSTEP, and applications for these systems
Minimum system requirements and recommendations
- Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 processor or newer
- Windows version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later
- Linux version: Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9.0 or other distributions from 2016 onwards
- macOS version: macOS High Sierra 10.13 or newer
- 4 GB of RAM or higher
Performance may vary depending on both host and guest configuration. Most emulation logic is executed in a single thread; therefore, systems with better IPC (instructions per clock) generally should be able to emulate higher clock speeds.
It is also recommended to use a manager application with 86Box for easier handling of multiple virtual machines.
- 86Box Manager by Overdoze (Windows only)
- Linbox-qt5 by Dungeonseeker (Linux focused, should work on Windows though untested)
- MacBox for 86Box by Moonif (MacOS only)
It is also possible to use 86Box on its own with the --vmpath/-P command line option.
Getting started
See our documentation for an overview of the emulator's features and user interface.
Community
We operate an IRC channel and a Discord server for discussing 86Box, its development and anything related to retro computing. We look forward to hearing from you!
Contributions
We welcome all contributions to the project, as long as the contribution guidelines are followed.
Licensing
86Box is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. For more information, see the COPYING file in the root of the repository.
The emulator can also optionally make use of munt, FluidSynth, Ghostscript and Discord Game SDK, which are distributed under their respective licenses.
Donations
We do not charge you for the emulator but donations are still welcome: https://paypal.me/86Box.
You can also support the project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/86box.