Homebrew coder Pate has released a technical demo of DSx86, a PC emulator that will allow you to run some classic DOS games  on your Nintendo DS. Currently, DSx86 emulates 80286 processor, MCGA graphics adapter, SoundBlaster audio and 83-key US keyboard.

Developer's note:

DSx86_LW2 is a technical demonstration of my PC emulator for Nintendo DS. Since the actual emulator is still very limited in the opcodes, DOS calls and hardware it can support, I can not release a version that would allow you to test any DOS program on it (as with a 99.9% probability they wouldn't work). The only two programs my emulator currently runs are Wing Commander 2 by Origin, and my own old DOS game LineWars II. Of course Wing Commander 2 is copyrighted material so I can not include it, and since releasing a demo that does nothing useful unless you have purchased a certain game nearly 20 years ago is not very smart, I'll release the demo version bundled with my LW2.

The size of the nds file is about 627 kilobytes, of which 224 kilobytes is taken by LineWars II (11 KB for the LW2.COM loader and 214KB by the LW2R.DAT data file), and the rest by the emulator core itself.

Download: DSx86

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