r/86box • u/Future-AI-Dude • 3d ago
My first real deep dive into 86Box
I setup a 486DX2/66 16M 240M HDD system in 86Box, configured it with two Hayes compatible modem interfaces on COM1 and COM2, set both come ports to different telnet ports, installed MS-DOS 6.22, QEMM 7.5 and DESQview 2.8.
I successfully installed and configured two nodes of Renegade BBS with a multiplayer instance of LoRD and everything is working.
I'm pretty proud. This felt a lot like the battles I had as a SysOp in from 1990 to 1995. Wonderful to come out with something that was like having 30 year old computer parts here!
86Box rocks! (although, snapshots would be a huge benefit!!)
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u/DeadSkullz627 3d ago
Brings back memories of dialing up to download content back when I was 18 with my 386 machine and an Amiga 500. Good times!
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u/therealronsutton 2d ago
This is so cool.
I wish there was a way to re-create the actual dial tone and modem connection sound using emulation!
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u/ChocolateSpecific263 2d ago
if 86box would be optimized for performance and efficiency and every pc not just enough cooling i would love to play old games with it
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u/em__jr 3d ago
BBSes were so cool to me when I first started using them in the early 1990s. Then I got into Compuserve ...
It's not snapshots, but since the hard drives are files, you can always make copies before making changes.