CP/M-86 continued the legacy of CP/M on the x86 platform. Version 1.1 introduced support for hard drives. It was followed up by CP/M-86 Plus and Personal CP/M-86.
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| CP/M-86 v1.1 (78,350 bytes) | xxxx | CP/M-86 | Play online  |
Utilities for playing CP/M-86 games
CP/M-86 software can be run on any x86 computer, as well as many non-x86 platforms. How this is accomplished depends on what operating system your computer is running.
The CP/M-86 operating system is freeware and can be found operating systems section.
If you are using a DOS operating system (MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS), there are a number of CP/M-86 emulators for DOS. These emulators also work within DOSBox.
If you are using any other operating system, you can install CP/M-86 in an emulation or virtualization program. Such programs allow you to run CP/M-86 and other operating systems as a "guest" operating system in a window on your "host" operating system. You can also run a CP/M-86 emulator from within a copy of DOS running within an emulator or virtualization program, or from within DOSBox.
Operating Systems
Emulation/Virtualization
Bochs emulates a PC with a 32 or 64-bit x86 processor. Like virtualization suites, it allows you to run a real copy of DOS, Windows, Linux, and other PC operating systems. The significant difference is that a virtualization suite simply allows a guest operating system to run on your PC, whereas Bochs emulates a PC, so you can run PC operating systems on non-PC computers. Unlike DOSBox, you will need a copy of DOS to play DOS games, but Bochs was designed to run other operating systems as well, which can be anywhere from difficult to impossible with DOSBox. Written in C++, Bochs can compile on many platforms. Please see the Bochs homepage for other versions.
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| Bochs v2.8 Freeware (6,335,297 bytes) | 2024-03-10 | Win64 | |
| Bochs v2.6.11 Freeware (4,989,389 bytes) | 2020-01-05 | Win32 |
DOSBox emulates a complete IBM-compatible PC, including almost every significant graphics standard (CGA, EGA, VGA, etc.) and sound card (Sound Blaster, AdLib, Gravis UltraSound, etc.). DOSBox also allows the emulation speed to be decreased to allow very old software to run at a playable speed. What makes DOSBox unique is that it also emulates DOS itself, allowing DOS software to run without installing an actual copy of DOS! DOSBox emulates DOS so well that it is even possible to install Windows 3.1, as well as Windows 95 up to OSR1. It is also possible to install and boot an actual copy of DOS in order to use utilities not included with DOSBox, or just to recreate the authentic DOS experience. In additions to the versions listed below, there are also ports to a number of Linux distributions, so I recommend visiting DOSBox's home page if the version for your operating system isn't listed below.
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| DOSBox for Mac OS X v0.74-3-3 (4,181,094 bytes) | 2020-09-22 | macOS-32 | |
| DOSBox for Windows v0.74-3 (1,493,703 bytes) | 2019-06-26 | Win9x | |
| DOSBox for OS/2 v0.74 (4,109,372 bytes) | 2012-02-08 | OS/2 | |
| DOSBox for BeOS v0.63 (776,706 bytes) | 2004-12-18 | BeOS (x86) |
PCem is a PC emulator that lets you configure pretty much everything about the emulation. Besides the usual ability to choose a graphics card and sound card, you can pick a specific CPU and clock speed to emulate (i.e. 486 SX 33). The emulation is very accurate, but one of the reasons why it's so accurate is that PCem requires the actual ROMs of the hardware that it emulates (fortunately, most of the software that you need is available on the PCem website). This means that you can actually enter the CMOS Setup! PCem pretty much recreates the entire PC experience, and even emulates the PCjr.
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| PCem v17 with source code in C (8,870,672 bytes) | 2020-12-01 | Win9x |
Virtual PC allows almost any PC operating system to be run in Windows with virtually no loss of performance. You can run a real copy of DOS, OS/2, or Windows as a "Guest" operating system within your normal version of Windows (the "Host" operating system). Virtual PC is a virtualization environment, not an operating system emulator, so you will have to install your own copy of whatever OS you want to run as a Guest.
Virtual PC 2004 requires at least Windows 2000, and supports DOS, OS/2, and Windows 3.x (unofficially)/NT/9x/2000/XP/Server 2003 as Guests.
Virtual PC 2007 requires at least Windows XP, and adds support for 32-bit Windows Vista/Server 2008 Guests. Official support for DOS and Windows NT/95/98 First Edition/Me Guests was dropped, though they still work just fine.
The newest version, released on 19 September 2009, is called Windows Virtual PC. It requires Windows 7 and only supports Windows XP/Vista/7 Guests, so it is not useful for running any of the games on this site.
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| Virtual PC 2004 SP1 Freeware (19,058,331 bytes) | 2006-08-30 | Win32 | |
| Virtual PC 2007 SP1 64-bit Freeware (33,381,416 bytes) | 2008-05-15 | Win64 | |
| Virtual PC 2007 SP1 32-bit Freeware (33,260,072 bytes) | 2008-05-15 | Win32 |
Developing/Modding/Hacking
22DISK is the single most important utility in the history of retro computer archiving. At last count, 22DISK can read and transfer files to and from 8", 5.25" and 3.5" CP/M disks in 187 formats. Support formats include some of the most important 8-bit computers ever created, such as the Coleco ADAM, DEC Rainbow, Kaypro, Osborne 1, and TRS-80, as well as 16-bit IBM PCs running CP/M-86. 22DISK users created disk definitions for almost every format that 22DISK didn't natively support. 22DISK is one of a number of indispensible tools created by Sydex.
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| 22DISK v1.44 (232,479 bytes) | 1996-10-31 | DOS |