SCP 86-DOS is alive in simulation
86-DOS 1.0 has been successfully recovered from a copy of an 86-DOS 1.0 8″ SSSD Floppy Disk provided by Robert J. Stevens. The data on this disk was extracted using a CompuPro DISK1A controller, and a custom program to dump the raw sector data out to a serial port on a sector-by-sector basis. It is available as a raw binary file, and as an ImageDisk (IMD) file.
These files are downloadable from www.86dos.org
86-DOS boots and runs on the SIMH/AltairZ80 Simulator. The AltairZ80 version of the simulator is maintained by Peter Schorn; however, my additions for the Cromemco Floppy Disk Controller required for booting 86-DOS have not yet been merged with the SIMH distribution available on his site. For this reason, a ZIP file containing everything you need to run 86-DOS on SIMH under Windows XP is available from www.86dos.org