The goal of this project is to emulate an Intel 8086 processor and supporting PC hardware well enough to run the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), including a shell and utilities. It should be possible to run other x86 software as long as it doesn’t require more than a simple serial terminal.
↫ NES86 GitHub page
Is this useful in any meaningful sense? No. Will this change the word? No. Does it have any other purpose than just being fun and cool? Nope.
None of that matters.
Cool stuff, but i have not understood how a 6502 8 bit processor could run 16 bit code? Please enlighten a lowly peasant.
Generally speaking, one would use two 8-bit chunks of memory to represent a single 16-bit chunk.
In this case, I believe the 6502 does support 16bit memory addressing
There is a small typo at the end about changing the word…