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86box seems to be the successor of PCem, a GUI Emulator that is capable of emulating full Hardware (incl. Settings and BIOS/firmware) via GUI selection. I use it for old games, because emulating of 3dfx and similar is also possible in an easy way.

Maybe this can be done with blink, but probably not by selecting a few dropdowns and clicking some buttons...



Pcem is still being actively developed, even though Sarah Walker said she wasn't working on it anymore.


Successor or fork?

I am not sure about the details, but I seem to remember it was not a very amicable fork.


It's a fork, going back some years (2017 or so).

It's instructive to look at the activity level of pcem (their forum, and their github account: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem/commits/dev/) versus 86box ( https://github.com/86Box/86Box/commits/master/ )

86box has a vibrant community around it (pop in the discord some time!) which PCEM really doesn't as far as I'm able to tell.

Yes, there is a lot of bad blood -but I would suggest taking any stories that you hear (but did not witness yourself) with a huge grain of salt.


There is also a video about PCEm with a reference to 86box from LTT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWEE2RJj3YI

Found this pretty interesting how to use in practise.




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