Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
by hugh4life on 9/25/2026, 7:27:45 AM
https://nyaa.sh/reviews/mac-mini-m6-emulation
Comments
by: bbarn
But can it emulate having two voodoo II's and a desk fan pointed at it?
9/25/2026, 10:21:58 AM
by: kar1181
86box is really fun, and the m4+ macs are great at running it. I've been working on a custom OS designed specifically for the pentium 2 core/isa (trying to write an high performance *nix for 1997-1999 for quake 1/2). 86box runs very faithfully to the real silicon p2s (and voodoo 3) I have without the nuisance of having to copy code over to it in development.
9/25/2026, 8:40:54 AM
by: walrus01
Emulated llama whipping, what an era we live in
9/25/2026, 8:37:57 AM
by: tomaskafka
I love it! The great 2026 benchmark is a native Turok (I vividly remember that 30fps low poly iguana looking as real as Jurassic Park in my childhood), Unreal and Q3A.
9/25/2026, 9:51:14 AM
by: initramfs
I thought 86Box only emulated binaries, so I was a little confused on how it designates CPU speed and architecture. Good to know though...
9/25/2026, 9:47:12 AM
by: artisinal
I vaguely remember running a PlayStation emulator (bleem?) on my Pentium III 1Ghz processor.<p>Once the Mac mini M8 is released, will we be able to emulate a Pentium III which runs PlayStation emulation?
9/25/2026, 10:12:18 AM
by: jwrallie
Wait, if single core performance matters, could it be that the MacBook Neo could be a good machine for 86Box? I assume thermal throttling could be a limitation but in theory it should be as fast as an M3 for single core performance.
9/25/2026, 9:33:37 AM
by: netsharc
Ah, those specs will run Need for Speed II smoothly!
9/25/2026, 8:57:04 AM
by: hncbw02z5a
Glide works, yeah, but check your 86Box dynarec setting first. I had Unreal crawling on an M2 until I realized I was still on the interpreter core.
9/25/2026, 9:39:35 AM
by: farseer
Emulated Voodoo 3? Does that mean I can run games using Glide?
9/25/2026, 9:20:23 AM
by: raverbashing
Computers got better, true<p>But those were much cooler than the ones today
9/25/2026, 10:22:49 AM
by: KellyCriterion
But can it run Crysis? :-D
9/25/2026, 9:14:38 AM
by: ranger_danger
I would be interested to see a performance comparison with qemu and softgpu (<a href="https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JHRobotics/softgpu</a>).
9/25/2026, 9:01:50 AM
by: qubex
Now I want to emulate my dual PIII-450 with an ATI Rage Fury 128 running Windows 2000.
9/25/2026, 9:00:54 AM