forth-ev / VolksForth

volksFORTH is a 16bit Forth System maintained by the German Forth Gesellschaft e.V.
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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8086 native port #34

Open cstrotm opened 3 years ago

cstrotm commented 3 years ago

There was once a VolksForth port that run native on 8088/8086 machines (witthout MSDOS).

Trying to recreate that port

Requires a boot-loader.

Possible options:

syslinux COMBOOT: https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Comboot_API FATBOOT: https://files.osdev.org/mirrors/geezer/osd/boot/ BOOTPROG: https://github.com/alexfru/BootProg LDOSBOOT: https://hg.ulukai.org/ecm/ldosboot/file/90c4983300a0/boot.asm Generic Bootloader Discussion: https://wiki.osdev.org/Bootloader