Nostalgia. 80s PCs are quite expensive now. One very annoying thing with emulation running on a host os like Linux is that the boot phase typically takes a lot

Nostalgia. 80s PCs are quite expensive now. One very annoying thing with emulation running on a host os like Linux is that the boot phase typically takes a lot of time. Another nice approach would be a boot speed-optimized buildroot image running PCem, along with some TV-like GUI for configuration. https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/ I think this PC emulator needs more attention. Its strategy of emulating the speed of a very slow CPU hits a good middle ground - you don't need cycle accurate emulators when emulating 80s/90s PCs, because they were all a bit different, but unlike DOSBox, there's an attempt to get the basics right given a specific target CPU.