2018-02-20 21:31:20 -05:00
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Welcome to VARCem, the Virtual Archaelogical Computer EMulator.
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VARCem is a software application which emulates a selection of of (mostly)
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x86-based PC systems and devices based on the ISA,EISA,VLB,MCA and PCI
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system buses.
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The program tries to be cycle-exact, meaning the guest software (the software
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being run inside the emulated system) will run as fast (or, depending on how
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you see that..) as slow as it did "back then". If you selected, say, a 80286
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running at 12MHz, that is what the software will see, and how fast it will be
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run.
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HISTORY
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VARCem started out as a new branch of the 86Box emulator, after discussions
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on which path to follow forward. 86Box in its own is a fork of the popular
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PCem emulator. At each generation, code and ideas were taken from other
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emulator projects, such as DOSBox, Vbox, MAME, Qemu and so on.
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LICENSE
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VARCem as a whole is released under the BSD 3-Clause Open Software License,
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which is compatible with the GPL (GNU Public License) version 2 or later that
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is used by many of the modules imported from other emulator projects. Author
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credits and specific copyrights can be found in each of the source files.
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Community and Support
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Information, downloads, additional modules and such can be found on our
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[]. Live support and general help can
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also be found on our [![IRC channel(https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.rol.im/?nick=VARCem_Guest|?#VARCem)]
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LEGAL
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"This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."
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It's free, it comes with all the sources, but it does not come with
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any warranty whatsoever. You probably should not use this software to run
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a business-critical piece of (old) software at work, for example.
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If there is a problem with the software, please open up a GIT issue so we
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can work on it, and/or talk to us on the IRC channel. We cannot promise a
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fix, but will try the best we can !
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Last Updated: 2/20/2018
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