Re: Starting with bcc and ELKS

["Hans" <hans64@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "silvercreekvalley" <silvercreekvalley@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:18 PM
Subject: Re: Starting with bcc and ELKS


> > > ELKS binaries built with bcc. But this stuff is all
> > pretty
> > > archaic so I don't know if it still works.
>
> I couldnt get the various flags to work, and objcopy
> didnt seem to do the trick. It just makes emulation
> a bit easier.
>
>
> > I've never tried this, but don't you have to have
> > BINFMT_AOUT or BIMFMT_MISC enabled in your kernel?
>
> The documentation mentions Linux 2.0 / 2.1 so I'm 
> thinking of installing an older Linux to see if I
> can patch the kernel as discussed in the docs.
>
> Tracking down an actual 8086 XT is quite tricky
> these days to run the code, so its useful to
> be able to emulate. I think there are some actual
> IBM XT emulators out there which I might try.

A few to check out (there are more):

http://dioscuri.sourceforge.net/  (comes with ELKS diskimage)
http://www.hampa.ch/pce/index.html
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjoris/retro/
http://www.shinelife.co.uk/legacy-ibm-pc-emulator/

However, IA-32 emulators like Bochs/Qemu etc also work fine.

Hans
www.ht-lab.com


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