[HN Gopher] 86Box v4.0
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86Box v4.0
Author : gattilorenz
Score : 66 points
Date : 2023-09-12 08:49 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dang wrote:
| Related. Others?
|
| _86Box 4.0 Released_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37278672 - Aug 2023 (2
| comments)
|
| _Try RetroBox (for 86Box) to play with old PC systems_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36386175 - June 2023 (1
| comment)
|
| _86Box - Low level x86 emulator that runs older operating
| systems and software_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34144479 - Dec 2022 (33
| comments)
|
| _86Box: Why Not Pentium III?_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30940639 - April 2022 (98
| comments)
|
| _The Starter 's Guide to PCem and 86Box_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23649244 - June 2020 (1
| comment)
| CodeWriter23 wrote:
| Does it run Captain Comic though?
| itomato wrote:
| Neat!
|
| > Fixed OpenStep text corruption and font sizing issues due to
| missing FXTRACT FPU instruction
| jchw wrote:
| I found out I was the maintainer of the Nixpkgs derivation for
| 86Box when I got pinged to update it for 4.0 last week.
| Apparently, what happened was, I created and merged a derivation
| for it while working on something that it would've been useful
| for, but then got sidetracked and never actually wound up using
| it for that purpose.
|
| Not that that's a bad thing, or anything. 86Box remains a useful
| tool as well as an entertaining toy and it's certainly nice to
| see more work being done on it. It did, however, remind me of how
| chronically bad I am at staying focused on one thing.
| ggambetta wrote:
| Is any of these full PC emulators usable as a library? I've been
| looking at a few of them lately (DOSBox, Qemu, others) and I have
| the impression that their UI is tightly coupled with the
| emulation part :(
| muricula wrote:
| Unicorn is what you want. It was originally forked from QEMU:
| https://www.unicorn-engine.org/
| aninteger wrote:
| I'd love to see this as well. I think for your purposes you
| could extend the emulator backed remakes article (which I still
| reference from time to time) you did a while back.
| ggambetta wrote:
| That's exactly what I want to do :) But I want to build
| tooling around x86 + devices (VGA + sound card mostly) +
| basic OS, rather than building all that from scratch.
| Matl wrote:
| What about libvirt?
| bombcar wrote:
| They may be looking for a real emulator not a virtualization-
| but to emulate you need to emulate the display ...
| o11c wrote:
| It probably _would_ be a good idea to refactor all those
| emulators to be supported by libvirt - it 's not like the
| it requires the guest be the same arch.
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| qemu surely is, it's the backend to a ton of virtualization
| products, Proxmox, UTM, etc.
| stavros wrote:
| What's the difference between this and something like VirtualBox?
| Legacy hardware emulation?
| gryson wrote:
| PCem and 86box are focused on accurate hardware emulation.
| stavros wrote:
| Ahh, thank you.
| snvzz wrote:
| >Added serial port passthrough to real ports and named pipes
|
| Finally.
|
| Hopefully RFC2217[0] next?
|
| 0. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2217.html
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