Faux86 is designed to be run 'bare metal' on a Raspberry Pi. This means that the emulator runs directly on the hardware so no supporting OS needs to be booted on the Pi.
This release is very old and the project has not received any updates in quite a few years. A newer release is now available on my project page named Fake860-remake. The newer release is still work in progress but addresses many issues including:
- Improved emulation speed.
- Improved video rendering and mode switching.
- Improved audio.
- Updated BIOS for PCXT and Video.
- Updated disk and file access, including writeable disk images.
- More configuration parameters
- Fully working mouse control in both DOS and Windows.
- Many bug fixes.
- 8086 and 80186 instruction set emulation
- CGA / EGA / VGA emulation is mostly complete
- PC speaker, Adlib and Soundblaster sound emulation
- Serial mouse emulation
By default Faux86 boots from a floppy image dosboot.img which in the emulator is mounted as drive A. The SD card will be mounted as drive C and any connected USB mass storage device will be mounted as D. Since MS-DOS is accessing the SD card directly, it does not work for large SD card types. I have found the best solution is to use a small capacity SD card and flash the image as a 32MB card. USB keyboard and mouse should be plugged in before booting - hot swapping of devices is not supported.
Faux86 was originally based on the Fake86 emulator by Mike Chambers. http://fake86.rubbermallet.org A lot of the code has been shuffled around or rewritten in C++ but the core CPU emulation remains mostly the same.
Faux86 uses the Circle library to interface with the Raspberry Pi https://github.com/rsta2/circle