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It's easy now because plenty of documentation exists of how to do it and there are plenty of open source examples, and there widely available, inexpensive or fr
by trollbridge 1y ago
It's easy now because plenty of documentation exists of how to do it and there are plenty of open source examples, and there widely available, inexpensive or free, easy-to-use development environments and emulators and debuggers.
The original DOS boot sector was also a "filesystem and program loader", albeit one that wasn't able to do much other than find IO.SYS, load it, and run it.
- tracker1 1y agoThere's also the fact that a modern emulator (assuming you're running as an emulator, instead of real/raw) is that you aren't constrained by memory the way real hardware implementations were either. I keep thinking it would be cool to emulate enough of DOS and earlier x86 to just run BBS Doors directly and connections over ws(s) to make authentication and program selection a bit easier. Even if no classic BBS terminals (currently) support connecting over WebSockets, which are easy enough to bridge.