My guess is that the author of D86 ... made use of some of his inside knowledge from his Intel days.
I continue to be amazed at the amount of backward-compatibility inside the average Intel x86 CPU. If something stays out of long mode, it can still do all of that. Impressive, really.
And... I hadn't thought through to the point of considering what you were using D86 for :)
I agree, things like sound emulation leave a lot to be desired. I only use QEMU for its networking and HW-accel virtualization - DOSBox runs rings around it with eg Win3.1...
Have you tried PCem and 86Box?
Maybe I should patch DOSBOX on stream sometime and submit the patch to the maintainers.
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I continue to be amazed at the amount of backward-compatibility inside the average Intel x86 CPU. If something stays out of long mode, it can still do all of that. Impressive, really.
And... I hadn't thought through to the point of considering what you were using D86 for :)
I agree, things like sound emulation leave a lot to be desired. I only use QEMU for its networking and HW-accel virtualization - DOSBox runs rings around it with eg Win3.1...
Have you tried PCem and 86Box?
Now that would be really awesome. :D