i’ve pivoted.

modern piezoelectric speakers in keeping with the tradition of this general social malaise are probably 10 times worse and less flexible than the ibm 5150. i have no patience for rebooting or qemu so i thought why not use dos? and so i embarked on this terrifying journey…

pipeline:

• rust → llvm bitcode (cargo targeting x86_64, but as long as no cpu-specific instructions are used it should be fine)
• llvm bitcode → c (using rellic, which seems to be the cleanest)
• manually cleaning c, which can be easily automated
• c → x86 (watcom)

requirements for the rust code:

• no_std
• no panic!ing
• no cpu-specific instructions
• write your own bindings to watcom c headers (if you need them) since clang doesn’t understand watcom jank

soon all will be automated. then i can continue on my quest to oxidize bad apple on the 5150