86Box VS PCem-ROMs

86Box crashes on startup without showing any message, no matter the hardware or operating system being emulated and 86Box build, either stable, experimental or old/new dynamic recompiler. Created an issue on GitHub but the dev who replied said he couldn't reproduce it.

For emulation, you can look into PCem/86Box

Unsurprising, of the 300 staffing agencies in our area only 23 are actually licensed to legally operate as a service. Trying to authenticate which are "fake" or "real" is a thread most companies/applicants rather not pull.

There is also the fake-hire scam: where staff are lured away with a lucrative compensation packages, data-mined by the competitor, and finally jettisoned before the evaluation period expires (typically 6 to 10 months).

A few infected PDFs from various bad actors are also floating around out there with exaggerated promises.

Keep safe, and note 86box supports read-only backing images and sessions Like Bochs/kvm:

https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases

(works on Apple M1 laptops, but is slow)

https://86box.net/#downloads | https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases

Features are implemented much, much faster, especially if you use nightly builds. Always adding hardware. You can look at the changelog: https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases

Shaders are a rather young feature in 86box and very incomplete (only single pass shaders supported for now). I am not surprised they crash. Please report the bug to https://github.com/86Box/86Box/issues

Another solution is to emulate a win95 old pc. It works great and the compatibility is very very high. Try out 86Box. There is a process to set it up and install Windows, but it is worth it for playing stubborn games.

You want 86Box, a full PC emulator as opposed to a virtual machine.

I got the roms from this website:https://github.com/BaRRaKudaRain/PCem-ROMs

Roms download link : https://github.com/BaRRaKudaRain/PCem-ROMs - PCem needs these rom files(hardware configuration file) to work, download the rom files with the folder structure, directly overwrite the items in "roms" folder of your PCem installation. Good luck!

The home page has a little bit more info: https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/

actually it's back online with announcement of quitting:https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/

You might have better luck using the Dosbox-x fork of Dosbox or PCEM

PCem :) https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/

PCem (Free) - For emulation old PCs, much better than using VM to install Windows 95 etc.