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86Box is a hypervisor and IBM PC system emulator that specializes in running old operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.
Features
- Easy to use interface
- Cycle-accurate low level emulation of 8086-based processors up to the Pentium
- Great range of customizability of virtual machines
- Many available systems, such as the very first IBM PC 5150 from 1981, or the more obscure IBM PS/2 line of systems based on the Micro Channel Architecture
- Lots of supported peripherals including video adapters, sound cards, network adapters, hard disk controllers, and SCSI adapters
- MIDI output to Windows built-in MIDI support, FluidSynth, or emulated Roland synthesizers
- Supports running MS-DOS, older Windows versions, OS/2, many Linux distributions, or vintage systems such as BeOS or NEXTSTEP, and applications for these systems
Downloads
The latest stable version of 86Box is v1.07, which was released on 21 February 2017 and is terribly outdated. It is instead recommended to use the latest nightly builds available from our Jenkins instance, which include all features listed above.
Also recommended is the 86Box Manager, our officially endorsed 86Box configuration manager, developed by Overdoze. The latest stable version of 86Box Manager is 1.0.0.
System requirements
- Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
- Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10
- 4 GB of RAM
Help
See frequently asked questions for solutions to common problems with 86Box or join our IRC or Discord for assistance.
Get in touch
You can reach us on our IRC channel or our Discord server to discuss anything related to retro computing and of course 86Box. We look forward to hearing from you!
Licensing
86Box is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.