FPREM - Fast Portable Recyclable EMulator was started on 20-th April 2002, when eks got really pissed off because of the Bochs's ugly sourcecode and slow speed.

He quickly wrote some code and together with slowcoder they started development. Project got sf.net's approval on 23-rd April, and two more people joined the team on the same day: cookin as a developer and amd as a web designer. Three days later, on 26-th of April, air joined the team also as a developer.