DOS ain't dead

Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx (Users)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 28.10.2010, 21:32

> Yeah, some people already want EFI to take over instead of the BIOS. At
> least one manufacturer is pushing that. I don't know, modern cpus are a
> mess.

If I understand well EFI can support some kind of BIOS emulation but it is optional feature which means that most of MOBO manufacturers suplying for common Win7 (&successors) users will not be interested in to pay for extra EFI coder who implement it. Sad reality :(

> However, somebody could (in theory) make a 486 clone (hopefully smaller and
> energy efficient, maybe even handheld a la PoqetPC) since 1989 -> 2010
> means the patents have expired. Stick a classic SB in there, SVGA, and it
> should be good to go, at least for us "old timers". Though I imagine
> it might be easier to just use GP2X's successor (Wiz?), assuming they have
> a suitable emulator (not unlikely since DosPad for jailbroken iPod exists).

Yes there are such toys for embedded comnputing, e.g. Vortex x86 - very small and low power SOC system but without good sound support ( I think only some AC97 codec). Yes we would need comething with true SB16 (maybe + GUS :) and SVGA with VBE 2.0. All that put into some small box like PSP or Dingoo but with bigger LCD, CF card instead of HDD, it would be cool toy that I'd like to pay for :)
I do some HW engineering at work with ARM CPUs so I have some skills designing el. circuits and PCB layouts but such thing would take a year to get some working prototype, depends on time. And then coding of own BIOS would be total mess. BTW see this nice project http://www.open-pandora.org. It is possible to do something like that but look how many time it had took them and it was done by more than 1 people.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 08.09.2010, 01:41 (Users)
  • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Laaca, 08.09.2010, 10:09
    • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 08.09.2010, 17:02
      • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - bretjohn, 08.09.2010, 18:06
  • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 01:01
    • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 09.09.2010, 06:43
      • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Laaca, 09.09.2010, 07:38
        • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 09.09.2010, 07:57
          • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Japheth, 09.09.2010, 08:18
            • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - marcov, 10.09.2010, 09:27
      • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 10:23
  • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Arjay, 09.09.2010, 19:03
    • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - kithylin, 09.09.2010, 20:52
      • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Rugxulo, 09.09.2010, 21:27
        • Sound card for - DOS386, 11.09.2010, 01:36
          • Sound card for - ecm, 11.09.2010, 02:07
            • Sound card for | native hardware access - DOS386, 12.09.2010, 03:05
              • Sound card for | native hardware access - kithylin, 12.09.2010, 17:35
                • Sound card for | native hardware access - Laaca, 12.09.2010, 18:19
                  • Mpxplay - Rugxulo, 12.09.2010, 21:46
          • Sound card for - RayeR, 11.09.2010, 02:27
            • Sound card for - Laaca, 11.09.2010, 08:11
              • Sound card for - ecm, 11.09.2010, 11:54
              • Sound card for - RayeR, 11.09.2010, 11:55
    • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 09.09.2010, 22:47
      • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Arjay, 13.09.2010, 13:51
        • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 13.09.2010, 15:52
          • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Arjay, 13.09.2010, 18:04
      • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - yuhongbao, 04.10.2010, 01:01
        • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 27.10.2010, 02:46
          • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Laaca, 27.10.2010, 11:23
            • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 27.10.2010, 21:21
              • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - Rugxulo, 27.10.2010, 23:13
                • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 28.10.2010, 21:32
          • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - yuhongbao, 05.12.2010, 08:14
            • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 07.12.2010, 15:16
              • Sound card for MS-Dos 6.xx - RayeR, 07.12.2010, 15:38