First post, by Elia1995
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Hi, I've just discovered these 2 emulators called PCem and 86box, which are similar to each other, but 86box comes with a little bit more features and even fixes the cursor issue I had on PCem (on PCem the cursor flies all over and just disappears, while on 86box I can use it just fine).
I set a virtual machine with a Pentium MMX 233, ISA Sound Blaster AWE32, 128MB of RAM (I typed in 256 and 512, but as the virtual machine starts, it always goes back to 128MB for some reason), an .iso image as a CD-ROM and floppy emulation.
I installed MS-DOS 6.22 and on top of it I installed Windows 95, it installed just fine, along with some drivers and a few games, BUT the virtual machine lags a lot !!! I don't have anything opened up besides the emulator and it lags, the sound stutters and makes horrible farting noises even during the bios screen, it's so annoying.
I wish I could get 86box to work properly, because it looks like a great virtual machine emulator with better compatibility to old Windows 3.x, 9x and DOS than VMWare...
My PC has 16GB of DDR3 ram, an i7-4790K CPU @4.00 GHz and a GTX 1060 6GB ROG STRIX as graphics card, I'd say more than enough good to emulate a Pentium-MMX 233...
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard