


XTIDE Universal BIOS is described as 'Makes it possible to use modern large ATA hard disks or Compact Flash cards on old PC's. You can then enjoy quiet or noiseless drives with more capacity than you'll ever need for old computers' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are four alternatives to XTIDE Universal BIOS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Haiku, Android and Chrome OS apps. The best XTIDE Universal BIOS alternative is Libreboot, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like XTIDE Universal BIOS are coreboot, Das U-Boot and SeaBios.



coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems.



The "Universal Bootloader" ("Das U-Boot"), commonly shortened to U-Boot, is an open source primary bootloader for embedded systems.

SeaBIOS is an open source implementation of a 16bit X86 BIOS. SeaBIOS can run in an emulator or it can run natively on X86 hardware with the use of coreboot.
