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ranger_danger • today at 9:01 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

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


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AshamedCaptain • today at 10:47 AM

Or a Rosetta-based emulator (like Parallels). But 86Box is going to be very bad there.

While they claim "accuracy" as one of the goals for 86Box, I believe accuracy is overrated in PC emus (you don't really need that much accuracy due to the variety of PC clones, and emus are not that accurate anyway). For me the biggest point for using 86Box over other PC emulators/virtualizers is the large selection of virtual hardware available to emulate, not performance.