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86Box

86Box is a hypervisor and IBM PC system emulator that specializes in running old operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows  86Box virtual machine manager: [https://github.com/86Box/86BoxManager](https://github.com/86Box/86BoxManager)
  • Linux  86Box virtual machine manager: [https://github.com/RetBox/86BoxManagerX](https://github.com/RetBox/86BoxManagerX)
  • Wine
  • Mac  86Box virtual machine manager: [https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox](https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox)
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  1.  Emulation
  2.  Virtualization
  3.  Hypervisor

 Tags

  • 8086-emulator
  • intel-8086
  • pc-emulation
  • pc-emulator
  • 8086
  • microprocessor-emulator

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  • Developed by

    US flagThe 86Box Contributors

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is 86Box?

86Box is a hypervisor and IBM PC system emulator that specializes in running old operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.

86Box is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.

Features

  • Easy to use interface
  • Cycle-accurate low level emulation of 8086-based processors up to the Pentium
  • 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

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