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tiny 386 PC emulator; running win9x on esp32

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2025-11-09 · latest 2026-09-24

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  1. …even a 386 emulator. https://github.com/foky26/Retro-Gamer https://github.com/EremusOne/ESPectrum https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386 New chips like the one in the article should be even more capable. 486 won’t be out of reach for long.…
  2. In case anyone missed it earlier on HN, there is a similar project that runs on an ESP32: https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386
    comment by jasongill · 2026-09-14 · in A 386 PC for Your RP2350
  3. Yep, there is a project tiny386, Win95 on ESP32, $1.85 chip. https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386/tree/master https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/14/windows-95-made-to-r...
  4. He Chunhui’s Tiny386 emulates a 386 PC on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller. https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386
  5. Super cool work! Here's the emulator source: https://github.com/hchunhui/tiny386 I wonder what the "effective" clock of the emulated CPU is, maybe we could run Speedsys or Landmark under DOS on it to see how it fares against a real 386. I…