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XT-CE
by Ian Dean

"Intel 80186 (compatible with code written for Intel 8088/8086/80188/80186 and NEC V20). Currently XTCE requires at least a 75Mhz processor to emulate an 8Mhz XT.

IBM PC harware emulation:

Keyboard emulation (83 keys)

Programmable Interrupt Controller (PIC) emulation

DOS timer emulation

360Kb, 720Kb, 1.2Mb, 1.44Mb, 2.88Mb Floppy disk emulation

4Mb-71Mb INT13 Hard disk emulation

DOS compatibility:

Compatible with all versions of MS-DOS (up to v6.22)
Compatible with all versions of Caldera OpenDOS (up to v7.02)
Compatible with several non-DOS operating systems

Memory:

256Kb - 736Kb (adjustable) base memory
Allows up to 678Kb of RAM for DOS programs (with MS-DOS 6.22).
Allows up to 724Kb of RAM for DOS programs (with Caldera OpenDOS 7.02)
0Kb - 256Kb (adjustable) Upper Memory Block (UMB) memory (used to free memory used by DOS TSR's and device drivers).
Virtual memory (only HPC RAM that is used is allocated - as little as 200Kb of HPC RAM is needed to load the emulator and boot DOS)

Expanded memory - Allows use of H/PC memory as "expanded" memory.

IBM CGA emulation

40x25 Colour or Grayscale text (depending on H/PC screen)

80x25 Colour or Grayscale text (depending on H/PC screen)

320x200 4 Colour or Grayscale Graphics Mode (depending on H/PC screen)

640x200 2 Colour Graphics Mode (2) (compressed on H/PC screens < 640 pixels wide)

HP Palmtop INT5F emulation - 640x200 2 Colour Graphics Mode

Purchase or Try XT-CE

XT-CE v2.02 for WinCE [Homepage] ($40)

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