Faux86: A portable, open-source 8086 emulator for bare metal Raspberry Pi (2019)

Judging from the Github issues it seems like it&#x27;s very slow, doesn&#x27;t run on RPi 4 and hasn&#x27;t really gotten any attention for 16 months.<p>It&#x27;s an interesting idea though; running a bare metal x86 emulator on e.g. a Raspberry Pi 400.

I came across box86 yesterday during FOSDEM. It have not yet tried it, but is similar and actively maintained: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ptitSeb&#x2F;box86" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ptitSeb&#x2F;box86</a>

This is demonstrated in the second half of this video (around the 11:30 mark):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bh4LhcbSmXQ&amp;t=619s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=bh4LhcbSmXQ&amp;t=619s</a><p>This seems good enough for emulating early 8088 and maybe even 80286 PCs, so opens up a big catalog of early games.

I still have an old 3.5 drive. Curious if such a drive could be connected to the pi and work with your 8086 emulator?

Does the Pi still have a composite video output? Some interesting things can be done with a precise CGA emulation on NTSC output.

Why is this interesting?<p>I ask with genuine curiosity. I don’t understand enough about computer architectures. Is it that you can run stuff compiled for 8086 on RPi?

This indeed enables us to run DOS on Raspberry Pi: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1508&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1508&#x2F;</a>

Calling Fabrice Bellard!