8086 Emulation

From: Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp_at_worldonline.co.za>
Date: Fri Aug 11 17:07:09 2000

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
Received on Fri Aug 11 2000 - 17:07:09 BST