Re: [Freedos-user] Would This PC Work?

2025-05-29 Thread Louis Santillan via Freedos-user
Dell Optiplexes up to 3040/5040/7040 (2015) have good BIOS support for booting DOS from USB (as HDD or ODD). I actually ran a Optiplex 7040 demo machine at VCF SoCal this year. I also had an Optiplex 9020 next to it running Quake. I had the 7040 run DOOM quite well from a USB drive (though it di

[Freedos-user] Update ASTRA sysinfo tool

2025-05-29 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-user
Hi! From BTTR: ASTRA - Advanced System Information Tool (Announce) posted by a2kkv, 29.05.2025, 16:15 New ASTRA 7.21 beta has been released. New in this beta: - Added detailed information about VIA VT82C486/VT82C486A/VT82C496G chipset (memory controller mode, L2 cache size and type, etc)

Re: [Freedos-user] Would This PC Work?

2025-05-29 Thread Felix Miata via Freedos-user
Ash composed on 2025-05-28 21:25 (UTC-0400): > I'm someone who has only recently begun diving deeper into computer > software and hardware related topics (beyond surface level history), so > forgive me if i'm about to ask a very basic question. > Essentially, I'm looking to install FreeDOS as the