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I've been playing with PCem on Linux the last week. You must enable network with a parameter when compiling!

I can emulate Windows 98SE on a Pentium 133 MHz with my 2500U AMD Ryzen laptop. It's convenient, since you can copy your DOS games on the machine over the network.

I successfully installed the 3dfx Voodoo 2 driver and the games run just fine.



Sounds interesting; I hadn't heard of PCem before. Does it always require a BIOS image from an original computer, though? Or are those just for some potential machine-specific functionality or something? The table of emulated systems lists ROM image file names, yet no ROM images are included (of course, as they're under copyright and proprietary).


The ROMs are one Google search away, on a public Github.


Yeah, I don't doubt the ROMs can be found. It's nevertheless an additional step to take over just throwing DOSBox[-X] at the problem, though.

Still, an ambitious project.




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