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For others who love old software and hardware I'll share two of my favorite sites, an excellent retro PC emulator, 86Box [0] and a clean and well-maintained sof
by accrual 6y ago
For others who love old software and hardware I'll share two of my favorite sites, an excellent retro PC emulator, 86Box [0] and a clean and well-maintained software archive, WinWorld [1].
These two sites together have provided me hours of exploration into old hardware, BIOS screens I'd never otherwise see, and plenty of interesting software scenarios.
[0] https://github.com/86Box/86Box https://github.com/86Box/86Box
[1] https://winworldpc.com https://winworldpc.com
- the_af 6y agoInteresting. What's the difference between 86Box and DOSBox?
- acidburnNSA 6y agoFor one thing, upon brief investigation I don't think 86Box has Linux builds. Might be mistaken though.
- badsectoracula 6y ago86box is a fork of PCem (though it does get updates with new stuff from it) with IMO a nicer UI. If you are on Linux you ca use PCem instead.
- badsectoracula 6y agoDOSBox is made for emulating a PC running some form of DOS to play games. It does emulate enough of PC hardware to do that and because of booter games (ie. games running directly from their own boot disks) it can also boot MS-DOS. However the development team doesn't care for non-game uses. There are some forks (e.g. DOSBox-X) that do (and also add more features) but in general it is more of a "compatibility" layer than a full emulator - think of it as Rosetta for DOS. 86box (a fork of PCem) is a full PC hardware emulator trying to emulate original real hardware as faithfully as possible, including their performance characteristics, limitations, etc. You can actually install Windows XP inside 86box on an emulated Pentium MMX 233MHz with an S3 Virge and a Voodoo 2 (though for better performance -and compatibility- Windows 95 is better).
- the_af 6y agoThanks! Very informative reply. I understand the difference now.