First post, by DOSfan1994
Hey Everyone! Did you not hear about what I heard online today?
There is going to be a PC Classic mini! That's right. Classic PC gaming has entered the mini retro console market. It's not a joke. It's legit. And it's made by a company called Unit-E.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjbrqR36w4
It's at a size where you can take it anywhere. Like to a school geek club, parties and conventions as well. And all of the games and software on this thing are all licenced and legal to play. And it's already preconfigured, and it already has joystick support. In the video they were showing off a prototype of the console. It allows you to play classic DOS games. According to the video. All of the games included are licenced and legal to own and use as well. The games are also preconfigured to work with the system and to work with the joystick, keyboard and mouse. With the keyboard and mouse it makes it more old school. And evey game is preconfigured to work with this peripherals. They are planning for the games included to come on SD cards. But, they are still working on some features. And there maybe some changes for the console on the way. The only features that it has right now that it comes with a joypad. And it plugs into one of those two USB ports on the front of it. Which you could also plug in a USB Mouse and Keyboard. And it also has a third one on the back of it for additional connections. But I wonderred if it'll have ability to use to connect a USB Disk drive that can be used a CD drive to play some games that were on CDs and that it can have multimedia capabilities where it can play the game's Redbook CD audio. And other stuff like adding more USB ports for other peripherals. Like a USB floppy disk. Or connecting a usb flash drive or a SSD with a usb to IDE connector to use as a additional hard disk. It also has HDMI, and composite video outputs. And it has bluetooth support to avoid having all these wires on your desk.
Oh and this PC console is being crowed funded. And it's hopefully going to be released in late spring or early summer of 2019. Oh and at the end of the video it showed him playing Quake II on there which was made for Windows 95.
But I wonder to myself. After seeing this video. I wonder if this PC classic mini will have the ability to load Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 on there. After all Windows is a part of PC. As so. I wonder if the DOS operating system is going to be built in? I mean every classic mini console should have a operating system built in. But for a Retro Mini console to do a piece of technology where you can put in a Microsoft GUI on a Disk operating system and upgrade it to a better OS. This could might work. And another thing. If they are going to make a Retro PC classic mini. Aren't they going to use the latest version of DOS? Like DOS 6.22? Oh, and I hope that this PC classic console has the latest pentium version like pentium IV. Or it can have the ability for you to configure what processor you want to choose. Remember at the end of the video he was playing Quake II on PC Mini console? It was a game on Windows 95. Which uses Directx. And the video quality on it is so smooth and look how fast the FPS on the screen is. So maybe this Retro PC mini classic will have Multimedia video capabilities. And hopfully the video hardware on this will be similar to a Geforce 2 or a Directx 8.0a video card. It could be that fast as it is in the video thanks to todays latest hardware that hopefully that the good guys at Unit-E will use the latest state of the art of today's technology to recreate a real classic PC experience.
But any thing what I hope to see may not come to expectations. But only time and the outcome will tell.
