Running FreeDOS and 8086tiny on the Game Boy Advance Because You Can
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Summary
ZZAZZ has posted a video of an early iteration of a FreeDOS emulator running on a Game Boy Advance (GBA), although it takes an hour to boot.
The intrusively themed notion of getting this roughly 15-year old DOS-derived OS to run on a 20-year old games console might at first seem fanciful, given the GBA’s limitations, but that hasn’t deterred ZZAZZ.
To get it to work, most of the OS has had to be rewritten, and it still lacks disk support and networking.
To boot the system, a hacked Pokémon Emerald cartridge is required to load the OS onto the GBA.
