PCBox

PCBox is a PC emulator focused on accuracy and hardware preservation above all else. PCBox is based on the 86Box emulator.

Our source code repository is at https://github.com/PCBox/PCBox

Our Patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/qeegmfer

Our Discord is at https://discord.gg/mWStgCdXus

Our IRC channel is #pcbox on irc.libera.chat

Features over 86Box

• Pentium 3 emulation (including SSE)
• More VIA C3 models, including ones that support SSE
• New machines such as the Atari PC 3 and the Atari PC 4
• Experimental support for coreboot BIOSes for a couple of boards (taken from 86box branch feature/mtrr)
• i815 boards (taken from 86box branch feature/ich2)

Planned improvements for the future

• Pentium 4 emulation (including SSE2)
• Athlon emulation
• Athlon XP emulation
• More accurate Pentium 3 speeds
• New optional dynamic recompiler that sacrifices timing accuracy for speed
• Rewritten FPU emulation for full 80-bit accuracy using software floating point
• (far future) x86-64 emulation

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel Core 2 Duo or newer
• Windows 7 or newer, or modern Linux
• 4 GB of RAM

Recommended System Requirements

• AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, Intel Core i5 13600K, or better
• Windows 11 or newer or modern Linux
• 8 GB of RAM