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1 8086tiny is a completely free (MIT License) open source PC XT-compatible
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2 emulator/virtual machine written in C. It is, we believe, the smallest of
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3 its kind (the fully-commented source is under 25K). Despite its size,
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4 8086tiny provides a highly accurate 8086 CPU emulation, together with
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5 support for PC peripherals including XT-style keyboard, floppy/hard disk,
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6 clock, audio, and Hercules/CGA graphics. 8086tiny is powerful enough to
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7 run software like AutoCAD, Windows 3.0, and legacy PC games: the 8086tiny
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8 distribution includes Alley Cat, the author's favorite PC game of all time.
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10 8086tiny is highly portable and runs on practically any little endian machine,
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11 from simple 32-bit MCUs upwards. 8086tiny has successfully been deployed on
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12 32-bit/64-bit Intel machines (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux), Nexus 4/ARM
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13 (Android), iPad 3 and iPhone 5S (iOS), and Raspberry Pi (Linux).
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15 The philosophy of 8086tiny is to keep the code base as small as possible, and
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16 through the open source license encourage individual developers to tune and
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17 extend it as per their specific requirements, adding support, for example, for
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18 more complex instruction sets (e.g. Pentium) or peripherals (e.g. mouse).
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19 Forking this repository is highly encouraged!
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21 Any questions, comments or suggestions are very welcome in our
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22 forum at 8086tiny.freeforums.net.
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