Hi again!
> I was just pondering whether it was possible to squeeze any sound out of > that gear using the tool like this one http://www.georgpotthast.de/dossound/ > or any other similar This is an AC97 driver which provides a special interface to output sound. For sound with old games, you will instead need something which provides a SoundBlaster simulation. Also, the EEE PC has ALC662 as sound chip, which is HDA instead of AC97. So unless you want to run DOS inside a dosemu2 window inside Linux, the only sound you will get with classical DOS games, if any at all, is PC Speaker sound. I would be curious to know whether EEE PC has it! About the SSD: The smallest you can get in 2.5 inch SATA (the EEE PC in question is a model with harddisk) would be 120 GB at the moment. Enough for DOS and low cost. Expect Linux to be slow on a single core, slow Atom CPU, but with XFCE or the even more basic LXDE, it should be bearable. You mention having 2 GB RAM, which is 8 times more than the smallest EEE PC, so that should be okay ;-) A hint for the graphics: I assume you have the 1024x600 screen, so you could use MODE to work towards 720x400 text mode, which has similar aspect ratio, then use the built-in zoom feature of the EEE PC. For common DOS game resolutions, you will probably have quite some black bars or distortion depending on your rescale approaches. Regards, Eric PS: You will probably have a bit less than 640 kB of DOS memory size (some reserved by SATA or similar controller data by the BIOS) and less space for UMB / EMS page frame. Try JEMM386 NOEMS if no EMS 3.2 needed, EMS 4.0 remains. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
