DosBox runs most of those old programs if you don't need to interface with anything like the OP has to.
I use DOSBOX even for real work. Between it and Oracle's VirtualBox, you can keep most of the old software running.
It would be easier for me to rewrite the code to run on a modern PC with a modern sound card using Windows graphics than get this system working again.
So far, looking like the PC held up better than your, I'm assuming much newer, monitor!
Should boot up my 8086 (PC-XT, late model clone) one of these days... I basically never do anything embedded though, so I have no real reason. Maybe I should put together a video and demonstrate some of the programs I wrote back then...
Tim
I have both the original IBM CGA and monochrome boards and IBM CGA monitor. The PC is fitted with a Triton VGA board now.
The one board can support expanded or extended memory. The other board only supports expanded and actually has a daughter board that doubles it's memory.
If you wrote anything for an XT box, let's see it. My PC is a first gen and does not have the hooks in the BIOS to support a hard drive. You get two 360K floppy drives to compile your C programs.
It finished scanning the media overnight and has completed the high level formatting. Now how to get the software on it.....