@nina_kali_nina I've actually done aoUT type of stuff also professionally back in 2012 when I implemented this in collaboration with Peter Anvin:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/realmode

Basically just applied learnings from this

@nina_kali_nina I'll publish the links in this site once I release them: https://jarkkojs.github.io/

Thus, the 486 esque mode 13h fixed point graphics goodness with VGA's rectangular pixels

@nina_kali_nina The inspiration came from when I noticed that people I know who are doing demoscene productions for MS-DOS still use old compilers and really antique tools to generate MS-DOS binaries.

An associated project is to create mxmplay20 of https://www.cubic.org/source/mxmplay-1.6.zip, which is portable implementation of the original and buildable also for Linux (with Pipewire instead of GUS playback routine).

There is a new GUS fork of ao486 that has gained my interested so I guess that it is the main target platform: https://github.com/xolod79/ao486_MiSTer/tree/GUS

Has been nice to hear the awesome sound of Gravis Ultrasound first time in 20 years

@nina_kali_nina Cool. I'm releasing in near future aoUT dos extender with toolchain support for modern gcc and clang. The name comes from the fact that the PM payload is relocatable a.out

As for Dosbox, this is AFAIK the best incarnation of it ATM: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/