Dear all,
Is there any way to get simple Dos4gw games run on 286 - of course with enough ram?
Something like replace Dos4gw by dos16m extender? Anything else? I don’t focus on performance here just feasibility.
Many thanks
1) VLSI SCAMP 311 | 386SX25@30 | 16MB | CL-GD5434 | CT2830| SCC-1 | MT32 | Fast-SCSI AHA 1542CF + BlueSCSI v2/15k U320
2) SIS486 | 486DX/2 66(@80) | 32MB | TGUI9440 | SG NX Pro 16 | LAPC-I
Such games utilized both 32-bit memory addressing and 32-bit instructions, both of which are features that were introduced in the 386. A 286 could never support such software, except if the source code were available and written in a portable programming language. And even then it would likely require modifications to the source code.
If you'd like to run such games on a specific retro system, a better approach would be to find one of those 386 or 486 CPU upgrade modules that were designed to be installed in 286 motherboards. It might still run too slow for many of such games to be playable, though.
Short answer: no.
The only 386 emulator for 286 was for real mode software
Extended memory is addressed differently in the 286 1gig mode than 386 flat protected 4g mode.
You would need to translate the software which would likely bloat memory requirements and be very manual.
Well, any Turing-complete machine - with enough memory - can emulate any other machine.
But there's the speed problem...
Somebody managed to run 32-bit Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller, but it took 2 hours to boot, with just "init=/bin/bash".
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Ah okay thanks a lot. So practically not possible at all.
I also found this discussion with also further de HMU all details on the topic: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-36859.html
BR
1) VLSI SCAMP 311 | 386SX25@30 | 16MB | CL-GD5434 | CT2830| SCC-1 | MT32 | Fast-SCSI AHA 1542CF + BlueSCSI v2/15k U320
2) SIS486 | 486DX/2 66(@80) | 32MB | TGUI9440 | SG NX Pro 16 | LAPC-I
Thank you for the link! 😁
It was really fun to read, because the people apparently had indepth knowledge about the 386/486, but avoided mentioning the 286's abilities.. 🙄
It wasn't mentioned that the 286 has 1GB virtual adress-space, a segmented MMU or support for the ring scheme, for example.
They spoke about segments/offsets, but not selectors/pointers and so on..
PS: The real-mode 386 emulator mentioned before is called Emu386.
It can be used for all sorts of real-mode games which use 386 code accidentally.
It's also useful for getting some soundcard software to work.
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Grzyb wrote on 2020-07-22, 01:45:Well, any Turing-complete machine - with enough memory - can emulate any other machine.
But there's the speed problem...
Somebody managed to run 32-bit Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller, but it took 2 hours to boot, with just "init=/bin/bash".
Funny that you mention this.
I successfully ran a PC/XT emulator on a 286 once!
But the really funny thing is.. It's written in Quick Basic! 😂
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