Emulator that can emulate every aspect of a computer

[veso266]

Hi is any Emulator (like VPC or Vmware) avalable out there that you can chose which procesor, motherboards, etc do you want to emulate?

Because in VPC you can only choose how much ram do you want you can't choose for instance Pentium 486 procesor to use with older systems

Best Regards

[Equinoxe]

Try QEMU.

[Knuckx]

Or PCem, which offers a choice of CPUs, graphics card, system type and requires a real BIOS dump.

[louisw3]

PCem is my favorite, 8088, 80286, 80386, 80486, CGA, MDA, EGA and a bunch of VGAs... Short of getting an old computer this emulator is as good as it'll get. It's just as annoying as it was back then!

[veso266]

@Knuckx, @louisw3 thanks but how can I make BIOS Dump? I have planty of motherboards

[user99672]

@Knuckx, @louisw3 thanks but how can I make BIOS Dump? I have planty of motherboards

* plenty.

Don't bother. Just because you /have/ a motherboard, doesn't mean PCem is compatible with it. Even if you managed to dump the BIOS ROMs, Code still has to be written to actually emulate the device. Go look at what PCem can emulate and find the ROMs for those devices.

[veso266]

hmm great program PCem can I run CIH on it and destroy the BIOS?

[Equinoxe]

Why are you so obsessed with destroying the bios?

[Wheatley]

Because black screens are always fun.

[Equinoxe]

No,they are not,and had you spent last fifteen years repairing other people's computers,as I have,I'm sure you'd agree with me.

[veso266]

@Equinoxe so how to reflash the BIOS?

[Equinoxe]

Either by using dedicated bios programmer,or by using hot flash method.

[veso266]

@Equinoxe so where can I find a BIOS Progarmer?
what is hot flash method?

What about old 486 motherboards where can I find image to flash on a BIOS Chip?

Best Regards

[mrpijey]

We're sure getting off topic here... veso266, perhaps you should do some research on your own rather than sitting around letting others do all your work?