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    https://mcuhacker.wordpress.com/

    Do you remember the simpler times when you had a DOS command line, a handful of commands, and you talked to the hardware through a few BIOS and DOS interrupts? Okay, maybe it was a little limited, but nostalgia doesn’t care. Now [mcuhacker] is working on bringing some of those memories back by getting a PC-XT emulator running on an ESP8266.

    For the x86 CPU emulator, he ported Fake86 which is written in C, and created an Arduino IDE environment for it. The MS-DOS 3.3 bootdisk image is stored in flash and is accessed as the A: drive. There’s no keyboard yet but he has 640×200 CGA working with 80×25 characters on a 3.5″ TFT display with the help of a low pass filter circuit. In the video below he shows it booting to the point where it asks for the date.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    i remember times when PC's didn't exist.
    not so simple though, back then

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      #3
      Originally posted by BR14 View Post
      i remember times when PC's didn't exist.
      not so simple though, back then
      You sound like my Dad

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        #4
        Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
        You sound like my Dad
        Mibbee? - ah'm sayin' nothing

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          #5
          Bit of DOS still useful for the odd thing!
          bloggoth

          If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
          John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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            #6
            Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
            Bit of DOS still useful for the odd thing!
            Certainly is! Tend to use it when DNS gets its knickers in a twist

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              #7
              Is that DOS/VSE ??

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                #8
                Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                Certainly is! Tend to use it when DNS gets its knickers in a twist
                WSS.

                Nothing like a quick "ipconfig /renew" or "ipconfig /flushdns" or similar
                Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                  Bit of DOS still useful for the odd thing!
                  exactly, I've no idea how you dir /s >list.txt in a GUI like Windows.
                  "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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