Whenever someone has a software hobby project, more often than not, one of their endeavors will be to get Doom running on some odd piece of software, like data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-can-run-just-about-anywhere-including-space-hacker-recounts-tale-of-running-the-game-on-an-orbiting-satellite” target=”_blank” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/doom-can-run-just-about-anywhere-including-space-hacker-recounts-tale-of-running-the-game-on-an-orbiting-satellite”>an ESA satellite. As a welcome change, programmer He Chunhui did something slightly different: they decided to build data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386?tab=readme-ov-file” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386?tab=readme-ov-file” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>an i386 PC emulator that runs on a tiny ESP32-S3 microcontroller board. It can boot Windows 95, Linux, and likely runs Doom, too.
The project is called Tiny386, and offers emulation for the main CPU and its optional x87 floating-point…
