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33 lines
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86box (PC emulator)
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86box is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems
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and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981
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through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
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Features:
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- Easy to use interface inspired by mainstream hypervisor software.
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- Low level emulation of 8086-based processors up to the Mendocino-era
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Celeron with focus on accuracy.
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- Great range of customizability of virtual machines.
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- Many available systems, such as the very first IBM PC 5150 from 1981,
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or the more obscure IBM PS/2 line of systems based on the Micro
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Channel Architecture.
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- Lots of supported peripherals including video adapters, sound cards,
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network adapters, hard disk controllers, and SCSI adapters.
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- MIDI output to Windows built-in MIDI support, FluidSynth, or emulated
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Roland synthesizers.
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- Supports running MS-DOS, older Windows versions, OS/2, many Linux
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distributions, or vintage systems such as BeOS or NEXTSTEP, and
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applications for these systems.
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The package includes the ROM images required for emulation.
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Full documentation is available at:
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https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
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Optional dependency: rtmidi (autodetected). If rtmidi is installed
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at build time, 86box will be built with support for it. If you have
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rtmidi installed but want to build without it, export RTMIDI=no in the
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environment. MIDI will still work without rtmidi.
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