bochs seems to work but holy crap is it slow. Is there any way to speed it up?

Is there any dos emulator that does support low level floppy access?

Ok I have an unusual problem that I hope someone can help me with. My uncle is a machinist and is starting to get interested in computers and wants to program on a laptop while away from home. He got a copy of the control software from work. It's a very basic Anilam program - p6m that is made in DOS …