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Bochs - 2.4.1

Cross-platform IA-32 emulator.

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Current Version:	2.4.1
Release Date:	2009-06-07
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	889
Downloads (all versions):	20,809

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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:

Fixed bunch of CPUID issues
- Bochs is now able to install and boot 64-bit Windows images! (special thanks to Mark Ebersole for his patch)
Several bugfixes in CPU emulation (mostly for x87 instructions)
Fixed two critical deadlock bugs in the Win32 gui (patches from @SF tracker)
Fixes related to the 'show ips' feature
- removed conflicting win32-specific alarm() functions ('win32' and 'sdl' gui)
- feature now works in wx on win32
Added support for gdb stub on big endian machine (patch by Godmar Back)
Rewritten obsolete hash_map code in dbg symbols module (patch from @SF)
BIOS: implemented missing INT 15h/89h (patch by Sebastian Herbszt)

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Binary maintenance donationware?! - Version: 2.4, 5/5/2009 10:00AM PST

libertyforall1776

It would be nice to see someone do a nice binary implementation of Bochs 2.4 ala 2.1.1, do a donationware system to encourage up-to-date binary availability...

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

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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!