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Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices

21 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 4 stories, 17 comments · first 2019-09-14 · latest 2023-09-13

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  1. …similar. And Box86 does that while keeping 3D acceleration on converting X86->ARM linux binaries. https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by anthk · 2023-07-13 · in Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (2017)
  2. …on the Raspberry Pi. Keep in mind performance will be greatly degraded, but its possible. [0] https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by officeplant · 2022-06-08 · in Quick Look at Rosetta on Linux
  3. …crap to do more $DAYJOB work. Not to say I never do that for fun. I do. I've done some work with https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 , and that involves a similar process. But I just frankly don't find doing it to your average Steam game to…
    comment by spijdar · 2022-01-02 · in Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
  4. …proprietary games compiled for ARM available is what you meant? That would need something like https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 , which actually seems to work way better than expected.
    comment by onli · 2021-05-14 · in Tried Nvidia’s GTX 1080 – still no external GPU on a Pi
  5. Huh? You totally can -- it's even mentioned down in the README in the github repo: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86#notes-about-steam You can download a straight tar.gz file from Steam [0], extract it, and run the contained steam…
    comment by spijdar · 2021-03-29 · in Box86 vs native: OpenGL is almost native, CPU bound 50%, SSE3 is slower
  6. …protected and when they trigger a write fault, the area is marked as "dirty" to be recompiled. https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86/commit/2aa2e53fef61d00df535... first "protect memory, fault handler purges that code block as 'invalid'…
    comment by bri3d · 2021-03-28 · in Box86 vs native: OpenGL is almost native, CPU bound 50%, SSE3 is slower
  7. Could box86 help here? https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by zennit · 2021-02-14 · in GTA III and Vice City fully reverse engineered: re3
  8. …box86 yesterday during FOSDEM. It have not yet tried it, but is similar and actively maintained: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by Gys · 2021-02-07 · in Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)
  9. …design that cared about performance and which was really clear about its use-cases See box86: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by jakogut · 2021-01-29 · in The Evolution of the QEMU Translator
  10. …much as possible to platform native implementations so there's a bunch of things you can run! [1]: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 [2]: e.g. here's Warcraft 3 on a Raspberry Pi 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85bfzDSWHNQ
    comment by DCKing · 2021-01-15 · in Odroid-Go Super: $80 Games Console That Looks Like a Switch, but Runs Ubuntu
  11. Also check out Box86: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 Impressive to see people playing Half-Life 2, Unreal Tournament 99 and 2004 on a Raspberry Pi 4. Curious if this could be extended to Emscripten (JIT for WebAssembly/Emscripten?) which…
    comment by trizic · 2021-01-12 · in Huawei ExaGear: x86_64 apps on Arm 64-bit Linux systems
  12. …Zoom on a arm7hf Linux atop a Raspberry Pi 4 (I tried it on a Pi3B: it works but it’s way too slow) https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by lloeki · 2020-11-12 · in Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
  13. …I did, so they don't make much sense to upstream. A sort of spiritual successor to my work here is https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 which is more like the OP and does HLE.
    comment by lunixbochs · 2020-11-02 · in Hangover, Win64/Win32 applications on arm64/ppc64le/x86_64 Linux and x86_64 Mac
  14. I wonder if box86 [1] could be made to emulate only calls to FBX. 1: https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86
    comment by voltagex_ · 2020-09-23 · in Amnesia is now open source
  15. This is exactly it. They're using box86 [ https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 ] which allows you to run x86 but not x86_64 Linux programs on ARM Linux.
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2020-09-19 · in Twister OS: Make Raspberry Pi Look Like Windows or macOS
  16. Have you tried box86? https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 Let's you run x86 (not x86_64 though) programs on ARM Linux. It does a neat thing where system library calls are converted to ARM system library calls rather than using x86 ones for…
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2020-06-22 · in Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs
  17. …emulate x86 versions of the system libraries. This is the same concept box86 implements on Linux. https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 . It's good enough to run lower end Linux games on a Raspberry Pi 4
    comment by ThatPlayer · 2020-06-21 · in Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple ditching Intel