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http://ioccc.org/2013/cable3/hint.html
The author hereby presents, for the delectation (?) of the judges, a portable PC emulator/VM written specifically for the IOCCC […]
The author hereby presents, for the delectation (?) of the judges, a portable PC emulator/VM written specifically for the IOCCC which runs DOS, Windows 3.0, Excel, MS Flight Simulator, AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3 …
In just 4043 bytes of C source, you get a complete mid-late 1980s-era IBM-compatible PC, consisting of:
- Intel 8086/186 CPU
- 1MB RAM
- 8072A 3.5" floppy disk controller (1.44MB/720KB)
- Fixed disk controller (supports a single hard drive up to 528MB)
- Hercules graphics card with 720x348 2-color graphics (64KB video RAM), and CGA 80x25 16-color text mode support
- 8253 programmable interval timer (PIT)
- 8259 programmable interrupt controller (PIC)
- 8042 keyboard controller with 83-key XT-style keyboard
- MC146818 real-time clock
- PC speaker
The emulator uses the SDL graphics library for portability, and compiles for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and probably most other 32-bit/64-bit systems too.
Apparently, they cheat a bit regarding code size. x86 machine language is translated to a simpler instruction set, and the lookup tables are stored in the 12k BIOS. Still, it's quite a feat!
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