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86Box is a cool IBM PC emulator: it even supports modem emulation and SLiRP. Serial BBS galore over the internet all over again!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/25

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A while ago, I learned about 86Box an “IBM PC emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac based on PCem that specializes in running old operating systems and software that are designed for IBM PC compatibles.”

Until then, I mostly used DOSBox for emulation (which I had known after Windows 2000 dropped DOS support), but sometimes DOSBox doesn’t cut it as it emulates DOS (now mainly for gaming), not a full x86 based PC.

The toot pointing me at 86Box was [Wayback/Archive] mr_daemon: “So, 86box has gotten General Modem Emulation… internet over SLiRP…” – untrusted.website (with the image that is on the top right in this blog post)

So, 86box has gotten General Modem Emulation in 4.2, and you can absolutely dial up with SLIP to access the internet over SLiRP, and it absolutely works.

Dialog Boxes you have not seen in Quite Some Time, volume 5.

Just in case you didn’t know 86Box either, or missed this new feature, here are some more interesting links:

--jeroen

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