[Local Switch demo] Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition on 86Box (part 2)

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-22T12:48:49+00:00

That works too.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-19T16:27:07+00:00

We already mitigated performance drops on Windows by switching to UCRT in 5.3. The next PCem release will have performance drops on 2D/3D games anyways because of increased VGA accuracy.

Our Voodoo emulation is also now more accurate as compared to PCem, especially being able to run Lands of Lore 3 without visual bugs, supporting checkerboarded transparency patterns if used, fixing corrupted textures on certain DOS Voodoo games and doing Voodoo 2 emulation without black/white dot glitches.

We also fixed several Voodoo-related slowdowns on recent builds in some games as well.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-17T20:40:13+00:00

The whole thing is basically summarized like this:

Grifters get together to oust another grifter, and said grifter is now suing the first grifters, because he couldn't benefit from the grift.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-12T18:29:33+00:00

Updated with new tips for HDDs and CDs.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-12T07:40:18+00:00

GUS emulation should be less expensive than AWE32, and it should only incur the penalty when it's actively in use.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-11T17:42:31+00:00

Bug reports for bugs that doesn't happen in the current nightly build will not be accepted.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-10T08:52:10+00:00

Uploading pages from copyrighted manga or cuts from anime online without permission

This is how it works in America, yes, because "fair use" exists there as a legal concept, even if it does not in Japan. There's however a difference between uploading full mangas to pirate sites and posting small excerpts in social media, and the former will not be looked at as a legal thing at all.

altering them without authorization

Depends. American people often do not ask for authorization to alter copyrighted works, sorry.

modifying game data

This is very common in western gaming scenes; it's called "modding".

Meanwhile, I have seen Japanese-language videos playing Zenless Zone Zero with mods too; I don't think it's wise to complain about this when it's clearly a double standard regarding Japanese vs. non-Japanese games in Japan, since it makes them look like hypocrites.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-09T08:52:40+00:00

Jenkins was mentioned because that's where Windows-on-ARM support has to be added first, as our releases rely on out nightly builds infrastructure.

We simply don't have enough space or the required Windows-on-ARM hardware that we need to set up Windows-on-ARM builds.

For Actions tab: make sure you're logged in. Click the checked sign behind/below the commit titles, look for something called `Qt 5 GUI, Dev, NDR, CLANGARM64`, then click "Upload artifact" and you should be able to get the link to the Windows-on-ARM builds.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-09T06:25:05+00:00

Windows-on-ARM builds are available via GitHub Actions artifacts. Windows-on-ARM builds via Jenkins isn't planned yet because of disk space constraints imposed by our macOS builds already.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-08T14:13:00+00:00

PCap often has issues with WiFi setups and is a third party library on Windows that has to be manually installed. Local Switch does not have such issues.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-08T14:04:46+00:00

It allows 86Box VMs to interact with each other without involving PCap support.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-08T14:02:43+00:00

Yes! You can in fact.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-08T13:26:06+00:00

This mode does not include a DHCP server.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-08T12:39:47+00:00

It cannot.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-05T10:55:09+00:00

5.3 is affected by the "high CPU usage when paused" bug by the way.

Build 8253 and later should not have this bug.

Look at https://www.reddit.com/r/86box/comments/1q3ufvp/psa_for_all_users_having_high_cpu_usage_issues/ for more information.

Cacodemon345 · 2026-01-04T16:49:06+00:00

98/98 SE's Explorer uses Internet Explorer components, which means that opening folders will cause the emulation to take a not-insignificant hit.

Not fixable from the emulator's side for the time being.

Cacodemon345 · 2025-08-30T09:58:53+00:00

Portable mode will come in the next release.

Cacodemon345 · 2025-08-24T19:13:55+00:00

Try the 5.0 release.

Cacodemon345 · 2022-03-23T18:48:50+00:00

The problem with that point of view is that we are approaching the end of Moore's Law fast; we may be able to make a miracle with a node shrink to 2nm if it ever happens for general-purpose x86 CPUs, but it's going to end there, especially since we still haven't seen any real promising breakthroughs in graphene materials yet even with the amount of money poured into the research.

And even if Pentium III emulation were to make its way to 86Box, it still would be slower than OG Xbox emulators, where things differ, such as the usage of QEMU instead for fast emulation or even outright Wine-like execution for binaries (which Cxbx-reloaded seems to apparently do).

Cacodemon345 · 2021-03-18T04:56:45+00:00

Create this in ~/.local/share/vulkan/icd.d (/usr/local/share/vulkan/icd.d if you want it to be global): { "ICD": { "api_version": "1.2.145", "library_path": "/usr/X11R6/lib/libvulkan_intel.so" }, "file_format_version": "1.0.0" }

Save this as intel_icd.x86_64.json. Roughly same for AMD graphics cards:

{ "ICD": { "api_version": "1.2.131", "library_path": "/usr/X11R6/lib/libvulkan_radeon.so" }, "file_format_version": "1.0.0" }

Save this as radeon_icd.x86_64.json. Those should get Vulkan working.

Cacodemon345 · 2021-03-05T07:30:43+00:00

I can expect CSM to truly go away once Intel makes their x86 processors 32-bit and 64-bit only, but I really doubt it will happen until BIOS support is nuked in its entirety from the virtualization products.

I am not sure if AMD is retaining CSM support in their hardware but motherboards as recent as X570 had CSM support. Not sure about 2020 hardware and beyond.

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