Immersive86Box

Immersive86Box is a fork of 86box v5.0, which is a low level x86 emulator that runs older operating systems and software designed for IBM PC systems and compatibles from 1981 through fairly recent system designs based on the PCI bus.

Immersive86Box projects aims to add sound emulation for hardware device likes floppy disk drives, harddrives, CD/DVD-drives and PC fans. Also we aim to add visualization layer that will display the image of the actual PC front-bezel that with working HDD and FDD leds + image of physical display screen front-bezel that outputs CRT-like image. Thus making it feel like you're actually using that PC and not an emulator - thus the IMMERSIVE aspect.

Features

• Typical 3,5" 1,44MB 300RPM FDD motor sound starting, running and stopping. FDD single track step sound an multi-track seek sound (not merged yet)

Future plans

• Typical 5400 RPM 3,5" HDD motor and seeking sounds
• Typical CD/DVD motor and seekings sounds
• Typical system fan sounds
• IBM PS/1 Model 2121 front-bezel with working leds
• IBM PS/1 Model 2121 VGA-display front-bezel that displays the emulator output in CRT-fashion

Minimum system requirements and recommendations

• Intel Core 2 or AMD Athlon 64 processor or newer
• Windows version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 or later
• Linux version: Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9.0 or other distributions from 2016 onwards
• macOS version: macOS High Sierra 10.13 or newer
• 4 GB of RAM or higher

Performance may vary depending on host and guest configuration. Most emulation logic is executed in a single thread. Therefore, systems with greater IPC (instructions per clock) capacity should be able to emulate higher clock speeds.

Getting started

See our documentation for an overview of the emulator's features and user interface.

Building

For instructions on how to build 86Box from source, see the build guide.

Licensing

Immersive86Box is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. For more information, see the COPYING file in the root of the repository.

The emulator can also optionally make use of munt, FluidSynth, Ghostscript and Discord Game SDK, which are distributed under their respective licenses.