86Box

86Box (formerly PCem-X, PCem Experimental or PCem Unofficial) is a hypervisor and IBM PC system emulator based on PCem that specializes in running old operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus. It is developed by the SoftHistory collective lead by Battler.

Supported guest operating systems
An incomplete list of OS that can run on it.


 * DOS
 * Windows 1.x
 * Windows 2.x
 * Windows 3.0
 * Windows 3.1x
 * Any version of Windows 9x
 * Any IA-32 version of NT up to Longhorn 4093 and Vista 3790.1232 (except Longhorn 4001)
 * OS/2 (Warp 3-4.5)
 * Any version of Linux that supports the Pentium.
 * BeOS
 * Rhapsody Developer Release 2
 * NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP (3.1 to 4.2, includes Rhapsody developer releases)

Emulated hardware

 * CPU: Any CPU from an 8086/8088 to a Pentium MMX 300 MHz is supported, including IDT/Cyrix/AMD variants. Select Pentium II processors are also available. A dynamic recompiler is available, optional for 486 and WinChip and mandatory for Pentium and later processors.
 * FPU: FPUs are emulated for all 486DX and higher machines. For 286/386 machines, a 287/387SX/387DX FPU can be emulated optionally. 8087 FPUs aren't supported yet.

Graphics cards

 * MDA
 * Hercules
 * Hercules Plus
 * Hercules InColor
 * Hercules ColorPlus
 * CGA
 * PCjr
 * Tandy
 * MDSI Genius
 * Wyse 700
 * EGA
 * C&T SuperEGA
 * VGA
 * OAK OTI-067
 * OAK OTI-077
 * Trident TVGA8900D
 * Trident TGUI9400CXi
 * Trident TGUI9440AGi
 * Cirrus GD5428 (ISA) to 5436 (PCI)
 * Tseng ET4000AX
 * Tseng ET4000/W32p
 * Various ATI cards before the Mach 64
 * ATI Mach 64 (GX/VT2 variants)
 * S3 Trio64
 * S3 ViRGE (325/DX/VX variants)
 * 3dfx Voodoo (original and Voodoo 2)
 * nVidia RIVA 128 (Preliminary)
 * nVidia RIVA TNT (Preliminary)
 * nVidia TNT2 (Vanilla, Pro, and Ultra) (Preliminary)

Network interface controllers

 * NE1000 compatible for ISA (Preliminary)
 * NE2000 compatible for ISA
 * Realtek RTL8029AS for PCI

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
 * Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371)
 * Sound Blaster PCI 128

Storage cards

 * Xebec MFM Hard Disk controller
 * DTC5150X MFM Hard Disk controller
 * PC/AT (WD1003) MFM Hard Disk controller
 * PC/AT (WD1007V-SE1) ESDI Hard Disk controller
 * IBM PS/2 MCA ESDI Hard Disk controller
 * Universal XTIDE BIOS (both 1.1.5 and 2.0.0b3)
 * Acculogic XTIDE card.
 * Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers (A/B, C, CF variants + BIOS)
 * Adaptec 1640 MCA SCSI controller + BIOS
 * Buslogic BT-54x series ISA SCSI controllers (542BH, 545S variants + BIOS)
 * Buslogic BT-445S VLB SCSI controller + BIOS
 * Buslogic BT-640A MCA SCSI controller + BIOS
 * Buslogic BT-958D PCI SCSI controller + BIOS
 * NCR 5380-based cards (Longshine, Ranco and Trantor 130B + BIOS)
 * NCR 53c810 PCI SCSI controller (BIOS is embedded into the PCI-based boards)