PCem
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| Current version: | v10 |
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| Active: | Yes |
| OS: | Windows, Linux |
| Authors: | Tom Walker |
| Official website: | pcem-emulator.co.uk |
| Source code: | Mercurial |
PCem is an LLE PC emulator. It focuses on PC hardware from the 80's and 90's. A variety of operating systems can be installed in the emulator, which can then be used to launch programs.
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Overview
PCem is a PC emulator that emulates hardware from the 80's and mid-90's. It does not emulate the operating systems as well however. 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 branch 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.
Operating System Support
{Note: List is incomplete}
List of OS that can be installed on it:
- DOS
- Windows 3/3.11
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Select any x86-32 flavor of NT before Vista, it works.
- Some older flavors of Linux (including Debian 3.0)
- BeOS
Video Card Support
- MDA
- Hercules
- CGA
- EGA
- VGA
- A couple of Trident cards
- A metric fuckton of Cirrus cards (Mostly PCem-X)
- Tseng ET4000AX
- Tseng ET4000/W32p
- ATI Mach 64
- S3 Trio64
- S3 ViRGE
- 3dfx Voodoo (need another card that does VGA for this, just like the real deal.)
There's also a branch out there that does basic VESA modes for the RIVA 128 and nothing else. PCem-X has this code too, but in a slightly more developed state. It's still not ready for general use though.
Sound Card Support
- 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)
