86Box | Blog: Help needed!

Help needed!

July 3, 2026 - written by OBattler

Hi everyone,

In case anyone is wonder why progress on the emulator appears slow or feature requests feel ignored, we are currently still understaffed and have, in addition to new bugs reported every day that have to be fixed, a backlog of items on our internal TODO list such as:

EISA;

Turbo Button for XT PCs;

Emulation of the ESS Solo-1;

PD (Phase-change Dual) and DVD-RAM support;

IBM Expanded Memory Adapter (XMA);

Passthrough of real CD/DVD drives to the emulator on macOS;

Support for cloneCD and TOC CD-ROM image files;

Mitsumi CD-ROM emulation (it would also allow eventual emulation of the Tandy VIS).

In addition, we are currently in severe need of developers and/or maintainers for the following:

New dynamic recompiler;

macOS support;

Emulation of the NEC PC-98 family of computers;

A potential built-in non-GDBSTUB debugger to replace the current GDBSTUB implementation;

Our SDL backend;

The ImGui OSD;

The Qt UI.

We would also appreciate anyone who could help the fixing of issues that get reported to our GitHub or in our Discord server.

Any kind of help would be extremely appreciated.

Lastly, we are in desperate need of funds to guarantee continued support of the macOS platform for 86Box - specifically, we need a second Mac that someone in our team could use to test and maintain the macOS builds.

Consider subscribing to our Patreon or doing one-time donations via PayPal in order to make it possible.

Thanks, have fun with emulation, and thank you for flying 86Box!