![]() It emulates the full DOS computer, including the DOS operating system and, most importantly, a full SoundBlaster compatible sound system complete with the music hardware. This is one of the standard emulators you’d use the get DOS games up and running on your main PC or Mac. To be honest, as I started this project I wasn’t very hopeful about emulating a DOS PC on a 900MHz netbook, but as you’ll see it worked out a lot better than expected. ![]() So in this video we’ll try another solution to see if we can get a fully working DOS gaming PC by using emulation. My EeePC doesn’t have anywhere to install a SoundBlaster compatible card so although the games run incredibly well, they are totally silent. Installing DOS meant that it needed drivers for all the hardware and there just aren’t sound drivers for more modern sound cards. The gaming PC was the one I had high hopes for, and it worked great, apart from one big issue. ![]() So far I’ve managed to turn it into a Linux based microcontroller coding machine, and in my last video a native DOS based gaming computer. I’m sure if you look around you’ll probably have an old PC gathering dust and it seems a great shame to simply scrap these bits of hardware. It’s a low powered netbook from 2009 with just a 900MHz, single core, Celeron processor with 2GB of RAM and a 16GB slow SSD. In my last few videos I’ve been looking at upcycling my old EeePC laptop to breathe some new life back into this lovely little machine.
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