86Box is a new one to me but perhaps some readers might be interested in it. It's an IBM PC system emulator that specializes in running old operating systems and software. Now with version 3.2 it's available for Linux.
"This Linux version was made possible by the massive work put in by contributors like jgilje, Cacodemon345, ts-korhonen and dob205, who developed the cross-platform Qt user interface or otherwise helped with freeing our code from the shackles of Win32. This new interface should look and feel almost exactly like the old Windows one. A macOS version is also in the works, also powered by the new interface and supporting both Intel and Apple Silicon, though it wasn’t ready in time for this release."
What does it feature?
- Easy to use interface inspired by mainstream hypervisor software
- Low level emulation of 8086-based processors up to the Pentium with focus on accuracy
- Great range of customizability of virtual machines
- Many available systems, such as the very first IBM PC 5150 from 1981, or the more obscure IBM PS/2 line of systems based on the Micro Channel Architecture
- Lots of supported peripherals including video adapters, sound cards, network adapters, hard disk controllers, and SCSI adapters
- MIDI output to Windows built-in MIDI support, FluidSynth, or emulated Roland synthesizers
- Supports running MS-DOS, older Windows versions, OS/2, many Linux distributions, or vintage systems such as BeOS or NEXTSTEP, and applications for these systems
Downloads available on the GitHub. They went with AppImage for Linux so it should run across most major distributions.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
doesn't cut the mustard...Never occurred to me before, but that's a weird saying when you think about it. I mean, who cuts mustard? It's semiliquid, you use a spoon. Or a squidge bottle. Should be "doesn't squidge the mustard" or something. Or "doesn't cut (something you might conceivably want to cut)".
Never occurred to me before, but that's a weird saying when you think about it. I mean, who cuts mustard? It's semiliquid, you use a spoon. Or a squidge bottle. Should be "doesn't squidge the mustard" or something. Or "doesn't cut (something you might conceivably want to cut)".The expression derives from 'mustard' as a slang word for a thing that is the best, and O. Henry has a character in Cabbages and Kings say: 'I'm not headlined in the bills, but I'm the mustard in the salad just the same. The 'cutting' refers to the act of harvesting the plant, i.e. garnering the best.
From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. I love that book!
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