rpix86 is a
DOS emulator for the
Raspberry Pi created by Patrick Aalto. rpix86 emulates an
Intel 80486
The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor. It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386. The i486 was introduced in 1989. It represents the fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs following the ...
x86 CPU
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, and ...
running at 20
MHz with 640
kB of memory, 256-color
Super VGA graphics at 640x480, and a
Sound Blaster 2.0 sound card.
The latest version is 0.19, which was released in June 2015.
rpix86 does not have an inbuilt
command-line interpreter. The user needs to have a DOS program that provides the
command shell features. Currently the only supported shell is
4DOS
4DOS is a command-line interpreter by JP Software, designed to replace the default command interpreter COMMAND.COM in Microsoft DOS and Windows. It was written by Rex C. Conn and Tom Rawson and first released in 1989. Compared to the default, ...
version 7.50.
See also
*
DOSBox
*
Virtual DOS machine
References
External links
rpix86 by Patrick Aalto
{{Virtualization software
DOS emulators