you forgot a link to it. 😀

Thanks, that's fixed.

DuffMan making a PCDude emu 😀 I like it 🤣

Are you guys up to my challenge? Writing some plugins for the PC speaker, and CGA?

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Don't beg or "challenge" others to do your programming hobby for you. Development can't go smoothly if you expect to rely on others.

I was optimistic until you wanted a plugin for CGA and PC speaker.

Looking at main.cpp it seems as if there is nothing other than basic machine code instructions implemented yet - ie no IO, no bios, no drives, no display, no keyboard etc.

It might be better looking at some of the other well established x86 emulators/simulators first for the missing pieces, rather than reinventing the wheel for every facet of your emulator.

Also, I'd reccomend not hard-coding print statements, file paths or filenames - you'll save yourself time later if you make them configuration or command-line arguments. Other people working on your code will thank you too!

Well, the majority of the printf statements are for CPU instructions to tell what they are. On Unix, or heck, Windows, you can do pcdude > log.txt to divert all that to a log file.

Also, there is preliminary I/O, and well, the closest emulator I could find that would suit me was Bochs, and honestly, that code is the messiest I've ever seen. Also, I prefer not to write a bios for my emulator.

I hope somebody writes an i430FX plugin for the upcoming PCDude...

leileilol wrote:

Don't beg or "challenge" others to do your programming hobby for you. Development can't go smoothly if you expect to rely on others.

I was optimistic until you wanted a plugin for CGA and PC speaker.

Yes, same here. That's what I thought too.

@Alegend45:

Anyway, keep it up. 😀

Alegend45 wrote:

github.com/Alegend45/PCDude

Website is rather sluggish on the world's fastest 486.

@feipoa OF COURSE IT IS! 486's are long obsolete! Doesn't mean we shouldn't emulate them, though...

Also, PCDude v6 will have plugin support removed, due to the fact that it didn't work, and I couldn't get it to work.

However, there will be improvements to PCDude made in v6, at least.

Alegend45 wrote:

@feipoa OF COURSE IT IS! 486's are long obsolete! Doesn't mean we shouldn't emulate them, though...

My point was that it would be of interest if the website worked suitably on fast 486's. Vogons, for example, works fine on my 486. It works so well, in fact, that 90% of my posts on here are done with my 486.

Huh. Sorry, it's not my fault, it's Github's fault, they made that site.

I'm rewriting the emulator for v6! No, there's not anymore plugins. However, there is preliminary support for more CPU opcodes, the PIC, PIT, PPI, and even basic DMA support, although it does nothing at the moment. It's at the same code repo.

Also, I've learned from my earlier mistakes. No longer am I going to be completely dependent on others for my code. Hopefully, I can get the XT bios working right in v7, or v8.