Homebrew Pate has finally released the first alpha build of his DOS emulator for the Nintendo DS, DSx86. Although the emulator is still on it's early stage of development, expect more features in the coming updates.

Developer's notes:

Well, somewhat surprisingly, I found the nastiest bugs in the code yesterday, and now DSx86 seems to be running reasonably well so that I dare release the first alpha version. Please note that it still is very much work-in-progress, so don't expect it to work properly all the time (or even most of the time).

You need to have 4DOS as a command shell, without that you can't do anything with DSx86.

As you can see, the user interface also needs a lot of work still (if you are graphically inclined and feel like designing a user interface for DSx86, I would much appreciate your help!). You can click on the reddish items on the Screen configuration section to change the screen update behaviour on-the-fly. Other configuration changes need to be done via DSx86.ini file.

Phew, managed to get the first version released with a few days remaining on my vacation!

What hardware it emulates?
Currently DSx86 emulates the following:

• 80186 processor (which is actually a 80286 processor without the protected mode stuff)
• MCGA graphics adapter (a stripped-down VGA with a maximum resolution of 320x200)
• SoundBlaster (including AdLib-compatible FM sounds) sound card
• 83-key US keyboard

Download: DSx86 v0.01

Via [DSx86 Blog]

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