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"Windows - Absolutely no idea."

QEMU works on WSL and WSL2 now, that would be one way.

QEMU works fine on Windows natively, and supports the "Windows Hypervisor Platform" as an accelerator ("-accel whpx" I think), same API that Hyper-V and WSL2 use. Where you might run into problems is the audio/video parts, not sure if QEMU can do audio on win32.

Edit: Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure QEMU comes with an SDL frontend by default, which should wrap at least audio output even on Windows.

Getting X and PulseAudio working is less than fun though... hoping MS or someone comes up with an "easy" button for that one. Managed to get X11 working, but not PulseAudio then kind of gave up on the experiment.

Looks like there's an easy button in the insiders channel now... will have to wait a while for GA though.

There's unofficial qemu binaries for windows that work without WSL.

https://qemu.weilnetz.de/

Couldn't you actually run this on bare metal on a suitable PC?

Or DOSBox. You could run the binary as if it was a bootable floppy.

          boot tetris.bin -l a

Or, if you have the source, change the org loading address to 100h, then compile it as usual, as DOS will see it as a COM file and thus you could run it under DOS.

I'm confused - doesn't qemu work fine on Windows natively?

He had specific command line switches for other environments, so it would allow the Linux example to "just work", other than maybe audio.

I'm sure someone could figure it out for Windows as well.

"Literally everything"

Love the brutal honesty.

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