Emulator · alpha
BluMach
The sixth alpha release is available to download, with the Olivetti PCS, M10, M15, M15 Plus, M28, M250, M280, M290 SP, M300 series, M380 and Prodest PC 1, the Toshiba T3200, T5100 and T5200, the Amstrad PC5286, the Triumph-Adler Dario 286 and 386SX, and the TriGem SX386M. BluMach is still in development: some machines boot in specific configurations, but the emulation is far from complete.
What it is
BluMach is a fork of 86Box, which in turn comes from PCem. Why another fork? Because I like presenting the machines differently: not building generic clones, but showing them with the configuration they were sold with, their history, their brand and their manufacturer, and documenting them, or at least trying to.
It has a historical catalogue and guided machine creation. For each machine I try to separate what is documented, what I have been able to verify and what is still an approximation.
Next step
What comes next
- 01Test it on computers other than mine.
- 02Test each machine further and work through its remaining issues.
- 03Bring in the rest of this summer's machines, little by little.
A machine that boots is not a machine that works well. There is testing and fixing left to do, and every machine and configuration behaves differently.
Before calling a configuration validated, I will write down what I tested, what fails and what its limitations are.
0.1.0-alpha.6 runs on 64-bit Windows and includes the Olivetti PCS, M10, M15, M15 Plus, M28, M250, M280, M290 SP, M300 series, M380 and Prodest PC 1, the Toshiba T3200, T5100 and T5200, the Amstrad PC5286, the Triumph-Adler Dario 286 and 386SX, and the TriGem SX386M. ROMs, BIOS files and operating systems are not included: you'll need to provide your own. Download.