DaveDDS wrote on Yesterday, 19:31:

To be honest, my "abysmal" comment was more in comparison to others, and I don't have any working
original 4.77mhz 8088 machines any more, and I'd forgotten how slow they are.

Okay. I apologize if I've been misreading your tone, but I feel like I've been on the defensive this whole thread.

DaveDDS wrote on Yesterday, 19:31:

Any chance MartyPC might support 286/386 someday?

I would like to support the 286. The advantages of a cycle-accurate emulator for 286 are already a bit questionable, so it will probably stop there.
I may write a 386 or "generic x86" emulator someday for fun but it probably won't be under the MartyPC banner. But we'll see. There are efforts to decode the 386 microcode afoot as we speak, so that may be something that intrigues me enough to attempt.

GloriousCow, just read your latest blog post about the Lake Effect - quite impressive, and a very interesting read!

JAL

jal wrote on Yesterday, 21:25:

GloriousCow, just read your latest blog post about the Lake Effect - quite impressive, and a very interesting read!

Thanks, glad you liked it! I need to blog more - I have another one coming out soon about what I've learned so far about 16-bit bus access, speaking of the 286 and all. The mechanism by which 16-bit IO is converted to 8-bit IO for backwards compatibility is quite interesting.