This is a really great idea! It does show how unique, open ended, and fan-drive the PC is compared to consoles. It's also very niche, so you won't get too much interest or feedback, but it's a nice little project for hardcore PC fans, and if you develop the idea and software further then it might grow into something that will attract more users who will work on it even further, like MAME or the Raspberry Pi.

Neat project, I have a Via board that might be compatible. Where did you get the soundblaster drivers for it?

JoJo_Reloaded wrote:

I wanted to share a little project, the PC/DOS mini:
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I commented on VCF but again, neat idea & thanks for putting it together. 😉

I have a question about your thin client - do you have the ISA/PCI slot riser? I would LOVE to know the pinout or even what it looks like. Can you post a pic if you have it?

CMR779 wrote:

Neat project, I have a Via board that might be compatible. Where did you get the soundblaster drivers for it?

Believe it or not, you can still download them direct from VIA, but they're kind of buried. I also attached them in the second post of this thread.

I think there's some Compaq laptops that have support for VIAFMTSR so maybe that could work with this too?

Anyway:
- Duke3D's and Shadow Warrior's play count could be reset to 0.
- no Speed Haste music?
- You should fix some titles, like "Tomb Rider"
- There's some high score residue left in there.
- I'm not sure if Lamborghini American Challenge is a demo or not
- no VGA "clover-inspired" frontend interface? 🙁

"Classic" demo suggestions:
- Battle Isle 2200
- ElfLand
- Extreme Assault
- Inner Worlds
- Jetpack
- Mechwarrior 2
- Liero
- Operation Carnage
- Skyroads
- Slix 'n Slide
- Tempest 2000
- Unreal (the demo)

DISCLOSURE: tested in PCem with on an Award 430VX + S3 ViRGE DX + SBPro2 IRQ5 DMA1 config, which is enough for commenting on the bundle aspect of the project.

xjas wrote:

JoJo_Reloaded wrote:

I wanted to share a little project, the PC/DOS mini:
[...]

I commented on VCF but again, neat idea & thanks for putting it together. 😉

I have a question about your thin client - do you have the ISA/PCI slot riser? I would LOVE to know the pinout or even what it looks like. Can you post a pic if you have it?

No, sorry, I don't have any riser for these... all mine don't have it 🙁

Why to limit for games only? It can be also used for tracker music, and in a more modern way it should be good if having digital I/O and MIDI uart which works with FT2 versions.
So, the expansion possibilities are ISA bus? MIDI UART available?

Awesome project, I havent tried your disk image yet but I do have a few thin clients that should fit the bill. What exact model of thin client is pictured?