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Bochs 2.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inside-the-outside-the dept.

Jas Sandys-Lumsdaine writes "Bochs 2.0 has just been released - project lead Bryce Denney writes: "It's been a busy 6 months since our previous release! Bochs is now about twice as fast as version 1.4.1. Also, we can now emulate MMX instructions, SSE/SSE2, and even AMD x86-64 instructions if you turn on the appropriate configure options. The emulation improvements have paid off; several people have been able to install Windows XP recently." Excellent stuff."

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  1. Boch vs. VMWare by thopo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does anyone one know which one of them is faster, or let's just say better?

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    keep it simple.
  2. Re:Anything would be faster... by reynaert · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you just want to play old DOS games, try DOSBox. It's specifically designed for this goal, and cheats in various ways to make it fast (for example, the BIOS and DOS are built-in instead of emulated). The main problem with it is the lack of 386 Protected Mode support.

  3. So what happened to plex86? by phr2 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    www.plex86.org sends a 404. And plex86's Savannah project page doesn't show much sign of activity. Is it moribund? Dead? How did it compare with vmware at its last sign of life?