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Re: 8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C

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On 2014-02-09 23:10:01 +0000, RS Wood said:

> From the "graphics card? don't need no graphics card dept":
> "http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/6008?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=8086tiny-a-free-pc-xt-compatible-virtual-machineemulator-written-in-c" 
> 
> 
> The folks over on the Raspberry Pi blog point us to an interesting and
> useful project run by Adrian Cable: a virtual machine/PC emulator of the
> Intel 8086 CPU accurate enough to run AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3, and classic
> PC games.  The kicker?  It's 4043 bytes of highly condensed C code,
> nothing more.
> 
> Industrialists with apps that rely on old PCs, or even just fogeys
> interested in running WordPerfect 5.1 on their Raspberry Pis - you're all
> in luck.

That's pretty dense code in 8086tiny.c 
("http://ioccc.org/2013/cable3/cable3.c").  The more readable version 
of it at 
("https://github.com/adriancable/8086tiny/blob/master/8086tiny.c") is 
still stupefyingly dense.

While I'm sure this can be useful in very limited space environments, I 
am a hard core Dosbox user.  I have been meaning to get a Pi for a 
while now just for Mathematica, but I have to try this little program 
out as well once I get it.

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8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-09 23:10 +0000
  Re: 8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 15:20 -0800
    Re: 8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C Koen Lefever <koen.lefever@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 15:29 -0800
  Re: 8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-09 16:01 -0800
  Re: 8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-17 23:13 +0000
    Re: 8086tiny: a PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator in C cykros@devio.us - 2014-02-18 20:06 +0000

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