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Emulator of x86-based machines.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2018-03-04 · latest 2026-05-15

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  1. …86box is a great option for old programs and games... no herculean porting efforts required. =3 https://github.com/86Box/86Box
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-05-15 · in Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux
  2. 86Box runs on modern MacOS, but is not very performant for games on ARM. https://github.com/86Box/86Box There are also patch sets available for modern PCs to support legacy MSDOS, and Windows 3.1/95/98/ME. Attempting to install/run on…
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-03-29 · in OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1
  3. …are on ARM, than the emulation performance hit will heavily limit what kind of games are playable. https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox/releases Note, Steam will also natively run on many Apple ARM…
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-01-28 · in Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
  4. …example, MacOS M4 with a read-only windows amd64 backing-image guest OS is a common configuration. https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox/releases Best of luck =3
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2026-01-18 · in Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)
  5. If you have a MacOS ARM system, than emulating old slow games can work: https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases For some, it is the only real legal option given windows 11 licensing. Apple M3/M4 are a great chip, but they EOL the hardware…
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2025-11-03 · in Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark
  6. …changes), but posix systems are more alike than different. =3 https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases/tag/v4.2.1
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2025-05-19 · in The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
  7. wow, the screenshots attached to each release on github are deeply nostalgic https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases
    comment by rougka · 2024-12-30 · in 86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines
  8. …and their github account: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/commits/dev/ ) versus 86box ( https://github.com/86Box/86Box/commits/master/ ) 86box has a vibrant community around it (pop in the discord some time!) which PCEM really…
    comment by rnd0 · 2024-12-30 · in 86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines
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    86Box: Emulator of x86-Based Machines
    story by tosh · 2024-12-30 · 38 comments
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    86Box – IBM PC Compatible Emulator
    story by segasaturn · 2024-08-19 · 0 comments
  11. …promises. Keep safe, and note 86box supports read-only backing images and sessions Like Bochs/kvm: https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases (works on Apple M1 laptops, but is slow)
    comment by Joel_Mckay · 2023-10-01 · in Fake recruiter lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
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    86Box 4.0 Released
    story by chungy · 2023-08-27 · 2 comments
  13. …qemu, vmware, etc all have different features. An alternative is to use something like 86Box ( https://github.com/86Box/86Box/ ) which can present the OS with a complete DOS-era computer with video and other peripherals. For number 3; I…
    comment by rnd0 · 2022-01-29 · in How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)
  14. Isn't 86box the natural successor, given that it's an actively maintained fork of PCem? https://github.com/86Box/86Box
    comment by dleslie · 2021-10-13 · in Who's taking over PCem development?
  15. …hardware, BIOS screens I'd never otherwise see, and plenty of interesting software scenarios. [0] https://github.com/86Box/86Box [1] https://winworldpc.com
    comment by accrual · 2021-03-20 · in Why use old computers and operating systems?
  16. …but this distro was made before that time) [0] https://archive.org/details/OpenLinux2.3CD [1] https://github.com/86Box/86Box
    comment by badsectoracula · 2019-01-23 · in Why I use old hardware
  17. There's 86box, based on PCEM; https://github.com/86Box/86Box/ ...it has support for several PC/XT/AT models. If you can get it onto a floppy image, I'm sure it would run it just fine.
    comment by rnd0 · 2018-09-29 · in The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
  18. Just wanted to mention 86box, which is a "spin-off" of PCem, actively maintained: https://github.com/86Box/86Box with "nightly builds" available, besides the Source Code.
    comment by jaclaz · 2018-03-04 · in DOSBox x86 system emulator