PCem

Current version:	v12
Active:	Yes
OS:	Windows, Linux
Authors:	Sarah Walker
Official website:	pcem-emulator.co.uk
Source code:	Mercurial

PCem is an LLE PC emulator. It focuses on PC hardware from the 1980's and 1990's. A variety of operating systems can be installed in the emulator, which can then be used to launch programs.

Downloads

• PCem stable builds
• Required ROMs

Overview

To run any program, an operating system needs to be installed in PCem first. It has a dynamic recompiler in the works that gives accurate Pentium support. A fork called PCem-X has slow Pentium Pro and Pentium 2 support as well, though it isn't accurate. It can also emulate numerous 2D and 3D cards, even the S3 ViRGE, which no other emulator supports.

Voodoo support used to be extremely slow, relying on frame skipping to stay full speed. However, in recent builds, this has changed with the introduction of a dynamic recompiler for the Voodoo. It is supposedly at least twice as fast as before, though some apps see up to a 4x increase in speed.

OS support

An incomplete list of OS that can be installed on it:

• DOS
• Windows 1/2
• Windows 3/3.11
• Windows 9x
• Select any IA-32 flavor of NT before Vista, it works.
• OS/2 up to at least Warp 3
• Any flavor of Linux that supports the original Pentium
• BeOS

Hardware support

Video cards

• MDA
• Hercules
• CGA
• PCjr
• Tandy
• EGA
• VGA
• OAK OTI-067
• A couple of Trident cards
• Cirrus GD5429
• Tseng ET4000AX
• Tseng ET4000/W32p
• ATI Mach 64
• S3 Trio64
• S3 ViRGE
• 3dfx Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 (need another card that does VGA for this, just like the real deal.)

Sound cards

• PCjr and Tandy
• Game Blaster or Creative Music System
• Adlib
• Adlib Gold
• Sound Blaster 1.0 through AWE32
• Gravis Ultrasound
• Windows Sound System
• Innovation SSI-2001 (essentially a PC version of the SID)

External links

Official YouTube channel

PCem website