86Box VS appimaged

Compare 86Box vs appimaged and see what are their differences.

86Box

Emulator of x86-based machines based on PCem. (by 86Box)

appimaged

appimaged is a daemon that monitors the system and integrates AppImages. (by AppImage)
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86Box appimaged
32 4
2,270 261
5.9% -
9.9 3.0
5 days ago over 3 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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86Box

Posts with mentions or reviews of 86Box. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

appimaged

Posts with mentions or reviews of appimaged. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-21.
  • Release 86Box 3.4
    2 projects | /r/linux | 21 Apr 2022
    I can't speak for others but I use appimaged still, which monitors the ~/.local/bin directory and automatically adds the shortcut to my application menu in Ubuntu-Mate.
  • What is the best way of integrating .AppImages with Gnome?
    2 projects | /r/gnome | 15 Sep 2021
    I found out that there is a daemon for it ([appimaged](https://github.com/AppImage/appimaged)) but it doesn´t seem to be supported anymore. The site points to an [alternative codebase](https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage) but it is not clear (at least to me) if it is stable or not.
  • Appimages, Gnome and Changing Image Filenames
    2 projects | /r/StandardNotes | 25 May 2021
    Hi u/tnc68, I use AppImageLauncher on Ubuntu to handle this automatically as it will handle the installation of new updates and preserve/generate desktop app icons for each update. Some users may prefer appimaged (as u/ProgsRS mentioned), but I currently do not use it.
  • Appimages
    2 projects | /r/debian | 13 Jan 2021
    There seem to be more than one solution to integrate AppImage with the desktop and still somehow a work in progress. The original version of appimaged is deprecated for a newer version written in go. There is also AppImageLauncher, which is not entirely the same as appimaged, but maybe does what you need. Docs: https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html#integrating-appimages-into-the-desktop

What are some alternatives?

When comparing 86Box and appimaged you can also consider the following projects:

pcem - PCem

AppImageLauncher - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

qemu-3dfx - MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU

dosbox-x - DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project

PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021

em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox

box86 - Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices

rpi-clone - A shell script to clone a booted disk.

wrp - Web Rendering Proxy: Use vintage, historical, legacy browsers on modern web

darkreader - Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension

MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes

glrage - OpenGL wrapper for the ATI 3D C Interface and DirectDraw 2