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Early WIP PC x86 emulator with the goal of easily running MS-DOS games on Windows, macOS and Linux.

In the current state, dustbox runs a some demos and is still in it's early stages. If you are looking for a more complete dos emulator, I suggest you check out dosbox-x.

Rough status june 2019

Component Status Notes
16 bit CPU 95% interrupts are incomplete
32 bit CPU 20% some instructions supported
FPU 5%
PIT 1%
PIC 1%
MS-DOS 5% simulating MS-DOS behavior (interrupts, command.com env)
EMS/XMS - extended memory managers
Keyboard 1%
Mouse 25%
CGA 5%
EGA 5%
VGA 5%
Sound - not started
CD-ROM - not started
Harddrive - not started

Contributing

Any help and contributions are much welcome!

Dependencies

On Ubuntu, use sudo apt install nasm libgtk-3-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev gdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-gfx-dev

On Windows, use vcpkg install sdl2 gtk + scoop install nasm

On macOS, use brew install nasm sdl2 sdl2_gfx

Running

To launch the debugger:

cargo run --package dustbox_debugger

then interact with the debugger using the input box ('help' to get started).

To launch the front-end:

cargo run --package dustbox_frontend path-to-dos-executable

Tests

To run all normal tests

cargo test --all

There is additional tests that are expensive, they also generate the tests/render/demo images.

In order to run the expensive tests you need to check out the dos-software-decoding repo in the parent directory and pass the --ignored flag to cargo:

cd .. && git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinlindhe/dos-software-decoding && cd -
cargo test --release -- --ignored

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Under MIT

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