Bochs

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3.2
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About this app

Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Bochs can be compiled to emulate many different x86 CPUs, from early 386 to the most recent x86-64 Intel and AMD processors which may even not reached the market yet.
Bochs is capable of running most Operating Systems inside the emulation including Linux, DOS or Microsoft Windows. Bochs was originally written by Kevin Lawton and is currently maintained by this project.
Bochs can be compiled and used in a variety of modes, some which are still in development. The 'typical' use of bochs is to provide complete x86 PC emulation, including the x86 processor, hardware devices, and memory. This allows you to run OS's and software within the emulator on your workstation, much like you have a machine inside of a machine. For instance, let's say your workstation is a Unix/X11 workstation, but you want to run Win'95 applications. Bochs will allow you to run Win 95 and associated software on your Unix/X11 workstation, displaying a window on your workstation, simulating a monitor on a PC.

Android port by Lyubomyr Lisen & Maxim Voloshin
libSDL port by Sergii Pylypenko (aka pelya)

source code:
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/lubomyr/bochs
https://github.com/lubomyr/BochsLauncher
Updated on
Feb 16, 2020

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Ratings and reviews

3.1
3.88K reviews
Cylon Wright
September 3, 2022
It works. It has a very high cool Factor but unfortunately a low usability Factor. It's not the developers fault that emulation offers poor performance. Amazingly I was able to run Windows XP and Windows 98 on my tablet. But the performance was too slow to be practical. in short it's a lot of fun to experiment with but I can't recommend it for everyday use.
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John Keubler
December 11, 2020
bochs won"t run my simple bootloader. It works in the limbo x86 emulator. It goes to the grey sdl screen then returns back to the main screen without displaying the output. actually it works on my older phone not my newer phone. it must only work with older versions of android. whoever wrote this program, why don't you fix the bugs and make improvements to it?? some people find this program useful. if it worked i would pay for it.
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Joseph Jarman
March 9, 2021
Bochs is a good PC emulator overall, but occasionally when you insert an iso file, the app will just crash. What I do, for anyone wondering, is I install a virtual machine that I want on my Windows machine, and move the *.vdi over to my phone, and load it up, I have encountered no errors with the way of loading virtual machines up, but that doesn't mean you won't have a problem. EDIT: I think I solved the iso error, at the bottom of the screen, choose "In app (old)", instead of "System (new)".
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What's new

File selector related fixes, added possibility to use old in-app file selector