Posted April 03, 2016
That's exactly what DOSBox does, the latter just focuses on hardware from the DOS era. Well, and contains an MS-DOS clone.
I'll take a guess that PCem is like almost any other virtual machine and does not include any OS by itself and as such will never really be suitable as a "DOSBox rival".
DOSBox emulates an entire machine from the DOSBox era, that includes all the hardware components.
To quote the introduction to DOSBox' Wiki article: "DOSBox is an emulator program that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running a DOS operating system. Many IBM PC compatible graphics and sound cards are also emulated." And: "DOSBox is a full CPU emulator".
I'll take a guess that PCem is like almost any other virtual machine and does not include any OS by itself and as such will never really be suitable as a "DOSBox rival".
DOSBox emulates an entire machine from the DOSBox era, that includes all the hardware components.
To quote the introduction to DOSBox' Wiki article: "DOSBox is an emulator program that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running a DOS operating system. Many IBM PC compatible graphics and sound cards are also emulated." And: "DOSBox is a full CPU emulator".
Post edited April 03, 2016 by F4LL0UT