Greetings. I appreciate the idea of creating x86 Legacy SBCs,thus I wish to support that idea,if such machines would be done,there would be a possibility for a new life for Legacy SW on Real HW even after all remaining Legacy HW will die(i am focusing on saving,restoring & preserving Legacy HW able to natively run DOS & other Legacy SW,i have enough Legacy HW to use up to my death,so I will never have to be bothered with any UEFI garbage,nor be pushed to emulators,but I am really sad,1ce there will be no functional Legacy HW left,as no new x86 Legacy machines,nor processors,nor MoBos r being made,manufacturers r dropping CSM or any other backwards compatibility,even 32bit mode may be dropped from new CPUs...terrible),thus I wish to express support to that idea & send a ME TOO to the wish of manufacturing new Legacy x86 SBCs.I would also welcome a handheld x86 Legacy device,like a PDA or MDA running DOS+Win.3.x. To the support by words I also add an offer: If some1 wish to have a plant for manufacturing new Legacy machines or Legacy HW of any kind,as an owner of a former school building I will gladly offer space for such projects. Sadly,i cannot pay for reconstruction of this my hardly damaged damaged building,but if U would be able to afford the reconstruction,I offer usage of my building for free(meaning lifetime ZERO-rent),i can offer about 780m2 of space for manufacturing such machines,but sadly it is located in Czechia,Eastern Europe,thus I am afraid,no1 of U is located nearby,i will be happy to be wrong in this assumption... In case,U will add a wind/PV power plant on the roof,U can have even electricity for free,so after the reconstruction no other payments for the building,sorry I cannot offer more,thus I offer,what I can offer for free for any good projects like that,U is dreaming about-Your wish for cheap new DOS machines,as I can minimize the manufacturing costs this way,U can made very cheap new DOS machines. I have only condition for the free-user(s) of my building: No meat/leather nor other products made from murdered Animals in my house,please. It is open for other useful usage too,for example for placing a server for (Free)DOS SW(ideally built with ability to download SW also directly to DOS machines),or anything else,which would help to start a new DOS era. With 16bit regards Sabina Zelená. Sent from my BlackBerry Passport,RIM OS 10 smartphone. With regards Sabina Zelená[=Green]. LIVE LONG & PROSPER,live & let live=DO NOT EAT,NOR WEAR ANIMALS,nor do not pay Their Murderers & oppressors,please. Shalom/Peace/Shanti/Mier/Nyugalom. Ethical food for Cats,Dogs,& humans: AmiPetFood.com ... Original Message From: tsiegel--- via Freedos-user. Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 22:24. To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Cc: tsie...@softcon.com Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Dos on raspberry pi.
On 10/18/2024 o8:07 AM, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote: > > I am *not* planning to transform a RPi into a standalone "DOS computer > that talks". That was Eric's idea. A perfectly valid idea with > possible practical applications, but outside of my specific interest. > Won't work. Dos itself uses a *lot* of interrupt calls to do things. The raspberry pies run processors that don't support interrupts. Therefore, porting a stand-alone version of dos to the pie just won't work. Of course, using linux and virtual emulation to make a dos subsystem can work, and that's how dosemu works (well, now there's dosemu2, which I can't get to work), but again, those use emulation. I'm still looking for an inexpensive X86 type SBC that can be used to build a dos only machine. That would be awesome, but inexpensive doesn't seem to be a buzzword when it comes to x86 compatible single board computers, which is a real shame, there's so much legacy software out there that could benefit from such a system, I'm honestly extremely surprised such a system does not currently exist. I've seen do it yourself forums where folks have built such machines, and one of them is still pretty active, but you need to send the board design to a company to do the building for you, since circuit boards are involved, and several surface mount chips are needed. It does work though, and perhaps I'll be able to get into the queue at some point, and have some of those built, then I can implement any number of dos projects, but that's probably 2 years or more away for me. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
