First post, by ppgrainbow
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I read somewhere at ps1stuff.wordpress.com that there is a emulator called IBMulator which emulates the IBM PS/1 Model 2011 which has a 10 MHz 80286 processor.
The problem is that the emulator is still in its early stages, but it is usable. It comes with a 31 MB hard disk image by default and can go up to 117 MB by selecting type 9.
I tried to install Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 inside IBMulator, but it ends up booting to a black screen with a blinking cursor when the emulator tries to read the file C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL.EXE.
So far, IBMulator has been tested on 64-bit Windows Vista SP2 and later.
You're welcome to contribute and make improvements to the IBMulator and make the emulator more user friendly. 😀
Update 2015-08-18: IBMulator 0.5 is released. The update includes custom hard disk types up to 496 MB (or 1,024 cylinders, 16 heads and 62 sectors per track). The official limit is 504 MB with 63 sectors per track, but the BIOS has a uncorrectable bug that prevents hard disks with 63 sectors per track from formatting correctly.
Joystick support has been added. MS-DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1 works.
Update 2015-09-11: IBMulator 0.6 is released. Support for realistic GUI mode added. New key bindings. Windows 3.0 works now.
Update 2016-03-20: After more than six months, IBMulator 0.7 is out! In this release, IBMulator has much better emulation of hard drive and floppy diskette drive with realistic timing improvements. SpinRite II and Microsoft Diagnostics work now! 😀
Sound effects for floppy disk, hard drive and the system unit itself.
Lots of bugs have been fixed in this release as well
Update 2016-06-13: IBMulator 0.8 has been released! AdLib sound card emulation has been added. The CPU emulation is 50% faster and various bug fixes have been made in the audio subsystem.
Web page: http://ps1stuff.wordpress.com/
Here's the Git repository: https://github.com/barotto/IBMulator