Hey guys,
Does somebody here know about a program I can use to emulate the original
8086-based computers? What I'm looking for is a program that can emulate
(on either Dos, Windows or Linux):
- The Intel 8086 processor
- 640KB RAM
- 360KB Floppy drive
- Small hard drive (optional)
- CGA graphics card
Emulation of the IBM ROM BASIC, and IBM ROM BIOS, is also greatly desired,
although, I am not sure whether these can be legally copied :-). Emulation
of the IBM PC-DOS would also be helpful, but, yet again, I think this
would result in copyright violation. I am pretty sure that emulating the
CGA graphics card, a hard drive, a floppy drive or memory should not be a
problem. Although, I'm not THAT sure about Intel's processor, but I think
on Intel-based systems, this would only mean disabling certain newer
instructions on the 80486/Pentium/whatever.
Can somebody help me out here? Also, if there isn't something like this,
how much trouble would it be to write one myself?
Ciao,
Lionel