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<img src="images/logo.gif" alt="A Window, Tux, and the BSD Daemon" width="160" height="175" align="right">
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<BR><font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Welcome to the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project</b></font><BR>
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Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in
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C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O
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devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486 or Pentium CPU.
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Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux,
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Windows® 95, DOS, and recently Windows® NT 4. Bochs was written by Kevin Lawton and
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is currently maintained by this project.<BR>
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Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are
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still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation,
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including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. This allows you to run OS's and
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software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a
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machine. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run
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Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11
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workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC.
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Read about
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Preparations for Bochs 2.0, which is coming soon</b></font><BR>
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The Bochs 2.0 release is planned for late October or early November 2002.
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To read about our latest progress, <a href="release2_0.html">click here</a>!
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs 1.4.1 Released</b></font><BR>
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June 23, 2002: Bochs 1.4.1 has been released. This version
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is a maintenence release of the Bochs 1.4.x series, which premiered in Spring 2002.
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Give it a spin!
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(<a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Changelog&url=http://bochs.sourceforge.net/docs-html/changelog.html">Details</a> - <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html">Download Now</a>).
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Bochs IRC Chat Transcripts</b></font><BR>
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The Bochs community held an IRC open discussion chat on Sunday, October 13, 2002.
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We talked about the coming 2.0 release. (<a href="irc-20021013.html">Transcript</a>). Here are some transcripts of earlier conversations:
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<a href="irc-20020407.html">April 7, 2001</a>,
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<a href="irc-20010619.html">June 19, 2001</a>,
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<a href="irc-20010530.html">May 30, 2001</a>.
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Help Wanted</b></font><BR>
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<i>We currently need help with the following tasks:</i>
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<li><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Bugs+Waiting+to+be+Fixed&url=http://sourceforge.net/tracker/qmrkgroup_ideq12580ampatideq112580">PC
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Hardware Gurus</a>:
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Mouse, interrupt controller,
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timer, IDE controller, network card, keyboard, VGA... Most of our bug
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reports and feature requests are due to incomplete C++ models of the
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various PC devices. To improve this, we need PC Hardware Gurus who know
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where to find the specs for this stuff and improve the hardware models for
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Bochs. Working on models is a fun way to learn how things work, and unlike
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designing a real hard disk, you can test out your changes on a real operating
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system immediately!
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<li><a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/diskimages.html">Disk Images</a>: Our collection of disk images is getting out of date. It would be great to have small or large images of a variety of free operating systems.
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<li>Documentation: Adding installation help and other useful information into the docs.
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To help with one of these tasks, please contact <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Email+Bryce+Denney&url=http://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.phpqmrktousereq185114">Bryce Denney</a>.
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<font face="arial, helvetica" color="#1e029a" size="4"><b>Latest News</b></font><BR>
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<li><b>June 23, 2002:</b> <a href="<!--#include virtual="includes/release.txt" -->">Bochs 1.4.1</a> is now available.
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<li><b>March 27, 2002:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&release_id=79121">Bochs 1.4</a> is now available.
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<li><b>March 11, 2002:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&release_id=79122"> Bochs 1.4.pre2</a> is now available.
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<li><b>March 3, 2002:</b> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580&release_id=78152"> Bochs 1.4.pre1</a> is now available.
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<li><b>December 10, 2001:</b> <a href="<!--#include virtual="includes/release.txt" -->">Bochs 1.3</a> is now available
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<li><b>November 17, 2001:</b> <a href="<!--#include virtual="includes/release.txt" -->">Bochs 1.3.pre1</a> is now available.
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<li><b>June 24, 2001:</b> Thanks to Psyon, Bochs in the CVS now has CD-ROM support under Win9x.
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<li><b>June 16, 2001:</b> <a href="<!--#include virtual="includes/release.txt" -->">Bochs 1.2.1</a> is now available.
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<li><b>June 3, 2001:</b> <a href="<!--#include virtual="includes/release.txt" -->">Bochs 1.2</a> is now available in both source and binary form. Read all about this major new release over <a href="http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=Press+Release+for+Bochs+1.2&url=http://bochs.sourceforge.net/bochs-pr-20010604.txt">here</a>.
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<li><b>May 23, 2001:</b> Activity Update - Less than a month after the transfer to Sourceforge, Bochs has reached the top of the <a
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href="http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week">SourceForge</a> project activity chart! Thanks to Todd T. Fries for the update.
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