I have been messing with my raspberry pi 400 and stumbled across box86. This program converts x86 calls to arm. And it works pretty well, i got the orginal pvz (disk verison) running through wine and box 86! The game is slow on cutscenes but gameplay is suprisingly playable and was more playable then my first pc lmao!
Its crazy that a fanless 15watt arm chip can run old games this well! Compared to a pentium 4 thats is taking off.
To be fair a hotplate could play games better than a p4 and do it while staying cooler.
What a cursed theme
Both cursed and nice. If you plan is to have a box for emulating old games, it is really a great theme for it.
TBH the color scheme is not bad, it just feels wrong on Linux.
Nice! Any chance you could try the FEX emulator as well? Apparently the 2404 release has some massive performance improvements, so I’m curious how it fares compared to Box86.
Hell yeah that’s cool AF
I wonder how well it runs on the Pi 5
Its crazy that a fanless 15watt arm chip can run old games this wel! Compared to a pentium 4 thats is taking off.
It’s not fanless, but the Steam Deck APU also has a 15w max (total power consumption can climb up to ~25w after fans/screen/etc). Overall really impressive what can be run these days on so little power.
It is really awesome. Note however that there are some gaps, like if you want accurate floating point or full syscall coverage. I’ve hit issues in some scientific applications.
FEX vs Box86?
Sounds like a neat project, ill check it out!
Your lag is probably due to the hardware more than the translation layers
Based PvZ
