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Feeling a little adventurous? Switch to the side of evil for once? Then how about a wonderfully refreshing emulation of an 8086 system, or a Pentium I based machine?

At least with the help of MS-DOS and the associated fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys, retro-frustration ... ehhmm - fun comes up very quickly.

And if you don't want to mess up your garage with a machine having an IBM logo printed on it, you might want to consider X86Box. 

The project by Miran Grča, known on Twitter as @86BoxEmulator is a competent emulator, that has so far passed us by. With a focus on accuracy additional hardware is simulated besides the CPU. Video adapters, sound cards, network adapters, hard disk controllers, and SCSI adapters but also MIDI output and an emulated Roland synthesizer make this piece of software interesting.

It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS and brings MS-DOS, older versions of Windows, OS/2, NextStep or BeOS onto your monitor. Hhhhmmm BeOS ... 🤤