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86Box
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86Box crashes on startup of any virtual machine
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.
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Virtual Machine for old childhood Rom games
For emulation, you can look into PCem/86Box
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Fake recruiter Lazarus lured aerospace employee with trojanized coding challenge
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)
- 86Box 4.0 Released
- Port of 86BoxManager to Linux
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Any way I could get Beach Life (2002) running on a Mac?
https://86box.net/#downloads | https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases
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Where does PCem store the Hard disk you create? I want to move it to a different location and can't find it.
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
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86box crashing when using shaders?
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
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I’m wondering if someone would be interested in helping my get an old windows 95 game to run.
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.
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Getting vintage (old world) Linux distro’s installed on modern virtualization software impossible?
You want 86Box, a full PC emulator as opposed to a virtual machine.
elks
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Damn Small Linux 2024
ELKS supported MMU-less operation on 8088 and 80286 machines, but I don't think an ARM port exists: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks
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SIIG MiniSys S286 Small Form Factor PC
Roughly in the mid-90s I bought at a local surplus store a "Carry 1" industrial 8088 computer which to my surprise I later discovered it could run Linux (ELKS: https://github.com/ghaerr/elks). I ultimately sold it on Ebay because although it was a beautiful piece of old tech, I was struggling to find more space for other things.
Here's one. I had only the central unit, mine had two floppy drives.
- ELKS Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset – Linux for 8086
- ELKS 0.70 released: Linux for the 8086
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My Happy HP 95LX is my everyday computer.
I don't think you can replace the OS on these. Unless there is a way to boot them from DOS, but you are looking at 8c086 machine so the choice is limited. Linux or BSD won't work. But ELKS might if it can be made to boot from DOS. Minix 2.02 seems to work.
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$5 Ai-M62-12F-Kit RISC-V development board features BL616 WiFi 6, BLE 5.2, and Zigbee MCU, plenty of I/Os - CNX Software
Yet ELKS works on 16 bit computers with 640k of RAM.
- ELKS: Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset
- Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
- Imaging an MFM Hard Disk on a PC XT
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Furby 1998 Source Code
Some small size Linux-like OSes do exist though: one commenter suggested Lunix (which I didn't know, thanks for the link), and a slightly bigger one is ELKS which runs on old MMU-less x86 CPUs. I managed to run it on a 8088 industrial PC ages ago.
https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
I should have a Furby buried somewhere; now that I think of it, it may be the right platform to stick a bigger brain into, make it wireless so that it could be connected to the home IoT network then signal events or alerts.
What are some alternatives?
pcem - PCem
IoTGoat - IoTGoat is a deliberately insecure firmware created to educate software developers and security professionals with testing commonly found vulnerabilities in IoT devices.
qemu-3dfx - MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU
gcc-ia16 - Fork of Lambertsen & Jenner (& al.)'s IA-16 (Intel 16-bit x86) port of GNU compilers ― added far pointers & more • use https://github.com/tkchia/build-ia16 to build • Ubuntu binaries at https://launchpad.net/%7Etkchia/+archive/ubuntu/build-ia16/ • DJGPP/MS-DOS binaries at https://gitlab.com/tkchia/build-ia16/-/releases • mirror of https://gitlab.com/tkchia/gcc-ia16
dosbox-x - DOSBox-X fork of the DOSBox project
FUZIX - FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021
ao486_MiSTer - ao486 port for MiSTer
em-dosbox - An Emscripten port of DOSBox
libudev-zero - Daemonless replacement for libudev
box86 - Box86 - Linux Userspace x86 Emulator with a twist, targeted at ARM Linux devices
linux-uwu - An optimized kernel based on the Debian Linux sources with graysky2's gcc optimization patch, Gabriel Krisman's fsync patch, and some Clear Linux patches layered on top