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Click the screen to use the mouse; Esc lets it go
First, load the ROMs
These IBM machines can't switch on without their BIOS, IBM's program in their ROM chips. It is still under copyright, so it isn't included here: choose or drop your own copy. It stays in this browser and is never sent anywhere. The browser remembers it, so you only need to do this once.
Machine
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ROMs Required
Pick the files, or a .zip containing them. A whole ROM collection works too: every machine's ROMs in it are
found and kept. The 86Box emulator's collection has them in its
machines
folder (ibmps2_m30_286, ibmps2_m30, ibmps2_m25, ibmps1_2011,
ibmat, ibmxt, ibmpc82), and the character ROM in
video/mda.
Release to load the ROMs
Drop .img, .ima, .vfd or .zip disk images anywhere on the page to put them in A: (onto B:'s row for B:). Several at once, such as all the disks of a program, give each drive a Swap menu for changing disks.
Free disks:
Release to insert
Keys type on the machine as labelled (Cmd stays with the browser; Option is Alt). Ctrl-Alt-Del is on the toolbar, since browsers keep it. On the PS/2s and PS/1, click the screen to use the mouse (Esc lets it go). The PC and XT keyboards have no separate arrow keys: the arrows are the number pad's, with Num Lock off.
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