Eric, Thank you for the detailed response! I never played video games, actually, I'm just nostalgic for the text interface experience and I really want to use WordPerfect again but without installing a VM. As long as I can enter code and also load DOS programs via USB, I'll get tons of mileage out of FD - there are several legacy word processors I also want to try, like Electric Pencil. A weird obsession, I know, but I'm a writer ;) Thanks again!
~ Vincent On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:14 PM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi Vincent! I would say as long as it has at least a > few megabytes of RAM and at least a 386 CPU, FreeDOS > should run on any PC ;-) Which specific parts are you > worried about? The BIOS will usually support "legacy" > OS such as DOS in helping with USB keyboard and mouse > access and access to any built-in harddisk or SSD. > > Even the newest graphics cards should still support > classic text mode and common VGA modes, but there > is a thread in the BTTR forum complaining that some > new graphics cards became too exotic for DOS games. > > Note that almost no game for DOS will support current > sound infrastructure such as AC97 or HDA. If you are > looking for sound beyond the PC speaker or beeper, it > is better to run DOS in a virtual environment such as > dosemu2 or a complete generic virtual PC. Using dosemu > has the advantage that you get guest drivers which let > you access a Linux directory as if it was a DOS disk. > > Regarding disk sizes: FreeDOS supports only MBR style > partitions yet, no GPT, so you are limited to using > the first 2 TB of your disks. If your BIOS does not > support LBA48, it could even be the first 128 GB. > > Regards, Eric > > PS: There are some DOS media players which support some > newer sound chips, but I do not know any games which do. > > > I have a little HP11 streaming laptop I'm not using - I used it to try > out > > Linux Mint, now it's redundant - is it a good candidate for FreeDOS? I'd > be > > dependant on the USB ports for I/O. Thank you! > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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