86Box

86Box

Developer(s)	OBattler
Latest version	v2.07
Active	Yes
Platform(s)	Windows
Emulates	Intel CPUs
Website	86box.github.io/
License	GNU GPLv2
Source code	GitHub

86Box is an open-source, low-level PC emulator. It focuses on PC hardware from the 80s and 90s. A variety of operating systems can be installed in the emulator, which can then be used to launch programs. It is a fork of PCem. It took over from PCem-X after the latter was deprecated.

Downloads

	Official Stable builds Need these ROMs to run
	Official Dev builds Need these ROMs to run

Overview

To run any program, an operating system needs to be installed in 86Box first. It has a dynamic recompiler that gives accurate Pentium/II support. It can also emulate numerous 2D and 3D cards.

86Box has now introduced a new GUI on Windows. This GUI is much more reminiscent of something like Virtual PC 2007 or VMware than the PCem UI, so users of those bits of software should feel more at home now.

Image support

Floppy

• IMG (Raw floppy images)
• TD0
• FDI (Both Japanese and stream)
• 86F (Battler's own format, more accurate than IMG, and handles almost any exotic thing you can throw at it.)

Hard disk

• IMG (Raw hard disk images)
• HDI (Japanese format, often used with PC-98 emulators)
• fixed size VHDs (Unofficially, handled as an IMG. Usually works.)

CD-ROM

• ISO
• Mounting a real or virtual CD-ROM drive

OS support

An incomplete list of operating systems that can be installed on it:

• DOS
• Microsoft Windows versions up to Windows XP (including pre-reset Windows Longhorn builds and Windows Vista build 3790.1232)
• Select any IA-32 flavor of NT before Vista, it works.
• OS/2
• Any flavor of Linux that supports the original Pentium
• BeOS
• Minix-PC 1.x, 2.x
• BSD (Only FreeBSD 6.x and OpenBSD i386 tested, NetBSD/i386 has some boot issue.)
• NEXTSTEP 3.1 to 3.3, OPENSTEP 4.0 to 4.2 (including Apple Rhapsody developer releases)

Hardware support

Graphics cards

• [ISA] ATI EGA Wonder 800+
• [ISA / PCI / VLB] ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach64 GX)
• [ISA] ATI Korean VGA (ATI-28800-5)
• [ISA] ATI VGA-88 (ATI-18800-1)
• [ISA] ATI VGA Charger (ATI-28800-5)
• [ISA] ATI VGA Edge-16 (ATI-18800-5)
• [ISA] ATI VGA Wonder (ATI-18800)
• [ISA] ATI VGA Wonder XL24 (ATI-28800-6)
• [PCI] ATI Video Xpression (Mach64 VT2)
• [PCI / VLB] Cardex Tseng ET4000/w32p
• [ISA] CGA
• [ISA] Chips & Technologies SuperEGA
• [ISA] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5402
• [ISA] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5420
• [ISA] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5422
• [VLB] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5424
• [ISA] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5428
• [ISA] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5429
• [PCI] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5430
• [ISA / PCI / VLB] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5434
• [PCI] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5436
• [PCI] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5440
• [PCI] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5446
• [PCI] Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5480
• [ISA] Compaq ATI VGA Wonder XL (ATI-28800-5)
• [ISA] Compaq CGA
• [ISA] Compaq CGA 2
• [PCI / VLB] Diamond Stealth 32 (Tseng ET4000/w32p)
• [VLB] Diamond SpeedStar PRO (Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5426)
• [VLB] Diamond SpeedStar PRO SE (Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5430)
• [PCI / VLB] Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (S3 ViRGE)
• [PCI / VLB] Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 (S3 ViRGE/VX)
• [PCI / VLB] Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (Phoenix S3 Trio64)
• [PCI / VLB Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM (Phoenix S3 Vision964)
• [ISA] EGA
• [ISA] G2 GC205
• [ISA] Hercules
• [ISA] Hercules InColor
• [MCA] IBM 1MB SVGA Adapter/A (Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5428)
• [ISA] Image Manager 1024
• [PCI] Matrox Mystique
• [PCI] Matrox Mystique 220
• [ISA] MDA
• [ISA] MDSI Genius
• [PCI / VLB] Number Nine 9FX (Phoenix S3 Trio64)
• [ISA] OAK OTI-037C
• [ISA] OAK OTI-067
• [ISA] OAK OTI-077
• [ISA] Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 (Phoenix S3 86c911)
• [PCI / VLB] Paradise Bahamas 64 (Phoenix S3 Vision864)
• [ISA] Paradise PVGA1A
• [ISA] Paradise WD90C11-LR
• [ISA] Paradise WD90C30-LR
• [VLB] Phoenix S3 86c805
• [PCI] Phoenix S3 Vision864
• [PCI / VLB] Phoenix S3 Trio32
• [PCI / VLB] Phoenix S3 Trio64
• [ISA] Plantronics ColorPlus
• [ISA] Professional Graphics Controller
• [PCI / VLB] S3 ViRGE/DX
• [PCI / VLB] S3 ViRGE/DX (VBE 2.0)
• [ISA] Sigma Color 400
• [ISA] SPEA V7 Mirage (Phoenix S3 86c801)
• [PCI] STB Nitro 64V (Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5446)
• [PCI / VLB] Trident TGUI9440
• [VLB] Trident TGUI9400CXi
• [ISA] Trident TVGA8900B
• [ISA] Trident TVGA8900D
• [ISA] Trigem Korean VGA (Tseng ET4000AX)
• [ISA / MCA] Tseng ET4000AX
• [ISA] VGA
• [ISA] Video 7 VGA 1024i
• [ISA] Wyse 700

Various 3D accelerator cards are also supported:

• 3dfx Voodoo Graphics (w/ SLI support)
• 3dfx Voodoo 2
• Obsidian SB50 + Amethyst (2 TMUs)

Some models with fixed graphics adapters are also supported:

• Amstrad MegaPC
• Amstrad PC1512
• Amstrad PC1640
• Amstrad PC2086
• Amstrad PC3086
• Amstrad PPC512/640
• Compaq Portable II
• Compaq Portable III
• Commodore SL386SX
• IBM PCjr
• IBM PS/1 Model 2011
• IBM PS/1 Model 2121
• IBM PS/2 series
• Olivetti M24
• Packard Bell PB410A
• Packard Bell PB640
• Tandy 1000 series
• Toshiba T1200
• Toshiba T3100e

Sound cards

• [ISA / MCA] Adlib
• [ISA] Adlib Gold
• [ISA] Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 AB (Washington)
• [ISA] Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Extra (Clinton)
• [ISA] Game Blaster / Creative Music System
• [ISA] Gravis Ultrasound
• [ISA] Innovation SSI-2001
• [MCA] NCR Business Audio
• [ISA] Pro Audio Spectrum 16
• [ISA] Sound Blaster 1.0 / 1.5 / 2.0
• [ISA] Sound Blaster Pro v1 / v2
• [ISA] Sound Blaster 16
• [ISA] Sound Blaster AWE32 (not fully emulated)
• [MCA] Sound Blaster MCV
• [ISA] Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371)
• [MCA] Sound Blaster Pro MCV
• [ISA] Windows Sound System

Some models with fixed sound hardware are also supported:

• Tandy PSG (PCjr and Tandy 1000)
• Tandy PSSJ (Tandy 1000SL/2)
• PS/1 audio card

Various MIDI synthesizer modules and interfaces are also supported:

• FluidSynth
• Roland MT-32
• Roland CM-32L
• Roland MPU-401
• System MIDI (through MIDI out device from host machine)

Two external audio devices are also supported:

• Covox Speech Thing
• Disney Sound Source

Hard drive controllers

• [MFM] IBM PC Fixed Disk Adapter
• [MFM] DTC 5150X
• [MFM] ST-11M
• [MFM] Western Digital WD1002A-WX1
• [MFM / RLL] IBM PC/AT Fixed Disk Adapter
• [RLL] ST-11R
• [RLL] Western Digital WD1002A-27X
• [ESDI] IBM PC/AT ESDI Fixed Disk Controller
• [IDE] Acculogic XT-IDE
• [IDE] PC/AT IDE (w/ single-channel or dual-channel)
• [IDE] PC/AT XTIDE
• [IDE] PC/XT XTIDE
• [IDE] PS/2 AT XTIDE (1.1.5)
• [IDE] Western Digital WDXT-150 (XTA)
• [PCI] PCI IDE Adapter (w/ single-channel or dual-channel)
• [SCSI] Adaptec AHA-154xA
• [SCSI] Adaptec AHA-154xB
• [SCSI] Adaptec AHA-154xC
• [SCSI] Adaptec AHA-154xCF
• [SCSI] Buslogic BT-542B
• [SCSI] Buslogic BT-542BH
• [SCSI] Buslogic BT-545S
• [SCSI] Buslogic BT-958D
• [SCSI] Longshine LCS-6821N
• [SCSI] NCR 53C810
• [SCSI] NCR 53C825A
• [SCSI] NCR 53C860
• [SCSI] NCR 53C875
• [SCSI] Rancho RT1000B
• [SCSI] Trantor T130B

Network cards

Network cards can use either WinPcap or SLiRP support on the host system.

• [ISA] 3Com EtherLink II (3C503)
• [ISA] AMD PCNet-ISA
• [PCI] AMD PCNet-FAST III
• [PCI] AMD PCNet-PCI II
• [ISA] Novell NE1000
• [ISA] Novell NE2000
• [ISA] Racal Interlan EtherBlaster
• [ISA] Realtek RTL8019AS
• [PCI] Realtek RTL8029AS
• [ISA] Western Digital WD8003E
• [ISA] Western Digital WD8003EB
• [ISA] Western Digital WD8003EBT

Printers

• Generic Text printer
• Generic Epson ESC/P compatible printer
• Generic PostScript compatible printer

Joysticks

• Standard joysticks
• 4-axis joystick
• CH Flightstick Pro
• Microsoft SideWinder Pad
• Thrustmaster Flight Control System

Other hardware

• DTK PII-147 Hexa I/O Plus
• Everex EV-159 RAM 3000 Deluxe
• Everex EV-170 Magic I/O
• IBM PC/XT Memory Expansion Boards
• IBM PC/AT Memory Expansion Boards
• Iomega ZIP
• Paradise Systems 5-PAK
• Micro Mainframe EMS-5150(T)