PicoCalc x86 - 8086/80186 emulation on Pico 2

Hi PicoCalc lovers, I want to present you my new project PicoCalc x86, 8086/80186 emulation for Pico 2 with PicoCalc hardware support.

So it is heavily modified port of the well known 8086tiny to Pico 2 (RISC-V) with display, keyboard, SD Card and PC Speaker support.

I put into the Readme info how to install and make own HDD disk.

In Release section you could find uf2 image for Pico 2, and simple bootable DOS 4.0 image for the disk or SvarDOS disk image.

List of SvarDOS packages SvarDOS Packages

Feedback much appreciated.

Why? Because why not.

CGA text modes support, grpahic mode 4 and mode 6 support, text output in video mode broken for now, PC Speaker works, keyboard works, simple shortcuts also works like CTRL+O etc, all keys without modifiers works too. Software that can work with ~330kb memory works I tested qbasic, NC 3.0, msdos 6.22, GitHub - DosWorld/dwed: Text file editor and IDE with syntax highlight for MS-DOS and 8086 CPU. Works in Real-Mode and can handle file up to 2G. · GitHub also works nice.

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This is great work! Thank you!

This is a really cool project. What DOS games can I play with this firmware?

Text games, CGA adapter games, in plans to add MCGA mode 13h Mode 13h - Wikipedia

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