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First post, by Maz Hoot

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Hello,

I have 2 asus eee pc, I like their tiny size, and I have a retrowave opl3 express (usb OPL3). Before trying all this and consuming a lot of time, do you think it will work correctly ?

At first I tried to use dosbox-x on a linux system (antix linux) on one of these eee pc but the playing is not accurate, there is lowering and it’s essentially for adlibtracker2 so playing must be good. I tried different settings in dosbox-x to free the more possible ram but it’s still not accurate and lowerings…

Sadly, on these 2 eee pc, the ram is soldered on the motherboard and it’s not possible to add more. It’s 1go on both. I can probably add an ssd instead of the hdd but I’m not sure it will be enough…

So, installing MS-DOS directly cames in my mind, do you think it’s worth it and what about the retrowave opl3 DOS driver ? Does somebody tried it on an asus eee pc ? One of the 2 eee pc I have is a R051CX

My music (chiptune, post-punk, world, industrial) : https://mazhootmusic.bandcamp.com

Reply 1 of 2, by oso2k

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The Eee PCs should work fine with DOS. I don’t believe USB sound cards work today in DOS. However, and I’m having trouble tracking down an lspci dump to verify, the built in sound cards should be supported by sbemu or vsbhda or their forks (search on GitHub).

Reply 2 of 2, by Maz Hoot

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Ok, there is a subject somewhere about retrowave opl3 express on DOS so I thought it could work

My music (chiptune, post-punk, world, industrial) : https://mazhootmusic.bandcamp.com