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Bochs - 2.3.7

cross-platform IA-32 emulator

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Current Version:	2.3.7
Release Date:	2008-06-04
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,862
Downloads (all versions):	18,641

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Product Description:

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU. Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, Windows 95, DOS, and recently Windows NT 4. Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project.

Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. This allows you to run OS's and software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a machine. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11 workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC.

What's new in this version:

More optimizations in CPU code - Bochs 2.3.7 is more than 2x faster
Implemented LBA48 support in BIOS
Added memory access tracing for Bochs internal debugger
Implemented Intel(R) XSAVE/XRSTOR and AES instruction set extensions
Many fixes in CPU emulation and internal debugger
MenuetOS64 floppy images booting perfect again !
updated LGPL'd VGABIOS to version 0.6b

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.0
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS Classic

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Source Code - Version: 2.3.pre3, 7/16/2006 06:07PM PST

iCore

This is just the source code. Has anyone gotten Bochs 2.3pre compiled and working on Mac OS?

Keep updating... - Version: 2.1.1, 2/15/2004 11:38PM PST

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Faragbre343

Not very good right now, but could get better. Graffix, wine could run great on Mac OS X, depending on the app. Any app that requires an x86 processor would run bad, but if it's just calling Win32 APi's it would be great. I say keep working on both. Lets make Windows apps run slow on Windows open source folk. We can do it!

Something like VPC would be nice ;) - Version: 2.1.1, 2/15/2004 08:52PM PST

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mark_ringenoldus

Something like VPC would be nice as long as it isn't Microsloth.
i wished someone would make a native Open-Source Mac OS X Wintel emulator.

and Microsloth is also not going to ad hardware acceleration for 3D so were stuck with that slow app again :(

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Something like VPC would be nice ;)