I did have to deal with those as a teenager in the early nineties, but
never heard of ZULIA.
There are several others:
https://archive.org/details/HGCIBM202
and a whole page about them
https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/cga_simulators_for_hercules.php

I also hacked on one myself but I don't know if I still have it
somewhere. Some would use the timer interrupt to fill in (copy from
above) the missing lines to stretch from 200 lines on CGA to 300 on
HGC but various other tricks were possible. Some games (digger iirc)
would query the vertical retrace via port 3da which wouldn't work so I
patched the binary by looking for the hex string "BA DA 03" (mov dx,
3dah) and patch it to
"BA BA 03", or maybe NOP out a back jump, my memory is foggy there as well.

Good luck!

On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 at 09:35, Samuel V. via Freedos-devel
<freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> I had a program for an 8088 with an Hercules card
> to play games like DIGGER, DIGDUG, and any other games
> that needed CGA, with an Hercules card.
>
> I no longer have a working 8088, I think the floppy where
> I had this CGA emulator program (ZULIA) is now unreadable,
> I don't find the old 360K floppy drives the 8088 had.
>
> Does anyone have a copy of this program for CGA/Hercules,
> ZULIA.COM or ZULIA.EXE, that showed ZULIA in huge letters
> in the screen while loading and probably adding the TSR
> for playing games?
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