For old DOS games and programs, there is this: https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU

> (because LINUX ELF binaries and runtime support are now available on IBM mainframes, Windows and as of last June, macOS)

I was not aware of linux binary support for macOS, can someone link to that?

EDIT: it seems to be this: https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/06/apple-container-linux/

There are actually two similar options, one is -nographic, which simply shows the serial terminal, and the other is -display curses, which will show the VGA text mode console on the terminal.

I suspect that for my purposes both of them will be useful. Thank you! I should go back and read the QEMU man page; groff -man -Tpdf <(gzip -dc /usr/share/man/man1/qemu-system.1.gz) generates a PDF of only 68 pages.

With this, I wasn't seeing any output with -display curses. It does work with -nographic or using a vnc connection to qemu's display, as well as on the two physical machines I currently have access to.

That would probably be because it is using UEFI text mode rather than VGA text mode.

Oh, I didn't know UEFI text mode didn't use VGA text mode! That could be an important consideration. But I suppose you can still frob the VGA registers to set VGA text mode, right? Even if you boot under UEFI?

While that way work on some hardware, on a lot of hardware it won't.

see https://old.reddit.com/r/osdev/comments/yjm04z/vga_on_uefi/i...

Have you seen tvision[0] and turbo[1]?

[0] https://github.com/magiblot/tvision [1] https://github.com/magiblot/turbo

There is also Free Vision which is part of Free Pascal. I used it sometime ago when i wanted to write a TUI viewer[0] for info files[1], though i never finished it (should pick it up at some point since it is mostly done).

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Qvkt3W0.png

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_nod...

I use it instead of edit on Windows for everything in Windows Terminal, except development where I use helix editor.

It works fine with Yori too, not only CMD.

Same here. It's just better in almost every way.

I usually open videos of any topic I don't want in my recommendations in a private window.

Calling Linux distros operating systems is a very common usage.

Linux distros are operating systems in my dictionary. Unlike Linux which is just an OS kernel.

> Mostly, it will because online identifies will be a market for lemons: there will be so many fake/expired/revoked identities being sold that the value of each one will be worth pennies, and that's not commensurate with the risk of someone commiting crimes and linking it to your government-registered identity. That would be trivially solved by using same verification mechanisms they would be used with.

Careful with that ambiguity...