Box86 is an emulator for

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userspace tools on ARM Linux systems, allowing such systems to execute video games and other programs that have been compiled for x86 Linux systems. Box86 is an alternative to

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for user-mode emulation. Box86 also provides

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as well as functionality to intercept

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calls and forward them to equivalent native libraries, allowing applications to run significantly faster than if they were fully emulated. Box86 also has limited support for running

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, allowing users to run x86 Windows apps on ARM devices like the

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. Ptitseb has also released Box64, the

ARM64 AArch64, also known as ARM64, is a 64-bit version of the ARM architecture family, a widely used set of computer processor designs. It was introduced in 2011 with the ARMv8 architecture and later became part of the ARMv9 series. AArch64 allows ...

equivalent of Box86 that helps run

x64 x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit extension of the x86 instruction set. It was announced in 1999 and first available in the AMD Opteron family in 2003. It introduces two new operating modes: 64-bit mode an ...

programs instead of x86.

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* Free emulation software Linux emulation software X86 emulators {{emulation-stub