Is there a PC emulator around written in Pascal?
lazarus / 21-General

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RuudB · 2021-07-03 09:56

All emulators I know so far are written in C, C++, Java, etc. but not
in Pascal. Is there one around?

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MarkMLl · 2021-07-03 10:38

Not that I know of. You might be able to find a real mode (i.e. 8086
etc.) processor emulator written in Pascal, but there is a very
limited number of "whole system" emulators i.e. including BIOS, screen
and so on.

I was looking at this a few months ago and think I got as far as an
academic paper published on an x86 emulator, but I can't remember how
many areas it attempted to cover and I think that to stand any chance
of getting sources you'd need to track down the authors and ask
nicely... but even then you might find that they're encumbered by
somebody's NDA.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,53471.msg395545.h
tml#msg395545

For general hacking Bochs seems to be a popular place to start.

MarkMLl