I thought 86Box only emulated binaries, so I was a little confused on how it designates CPU speed and architecture. Good to know though...

86box is really fun, and the m4+ macs are great at running it. I've been working on a custom OS designed specifically for the pentium 2 core/isa (trying to write an high performance *nix for 1997-1999 for quake 1/2). 86box runs very faithfully to the real silicon p2s (and voodoo 3) I have without the nuisance of having to copy code over to it in development.

I love it! The great 2026 benchmark is a native Turok (I vividly remember that 30fps low poly iguana looking as real as Jurassic Park in my childhood), Unreal and Q3A.

Emulated llama whipping, what an era we live in

Wait, if single core performance matters, could it be that the MacBook Neo could be a good machine for 86Box? I assume thermal throttling could be a limitation but in theory it should be as fast as an M3 for single core performance.

Glide works, yeah, but check your 86Box dynarec setting first. I had Unreal crawling on an M2 until I realized I was still on the interpreter core.

Ah, those specs will run Need for Speed II smoothly!

Emulated Voodoo 3? Does that mean I can run games using Glide?

But can it run Crysis? :-D

I would be interested to see a performance comparison with qemu and softgpu (https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu).

Now I want to emulate my dual PIII-450 with an ATI Rage Fury 128 running Windows 2000.