I watched much of this video and I felt exactly how the creator does. Why would you ever build a fast MD-DOS PC? It's gonna be too fast for most of the games, and too slow to run current titles. It's interesting in a geeky kinda way though, kudos to the author.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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Well, you would be surprised how much really good software from back in the day (especially games) can run on quiet modern hardware. I have an old Thinkpad with a Core2Duo running FreeDOS that I mostly use for gaming and most of the DOS titles of the late 80s to mid 90 are running quiet well.
fun and nostalgic
ol win98
good times
For anybody who, like me, was wondering how the fuck a miniITX board, of all things, had ISA support:
[Andy] had to tap into the LPC (low pin count) debug port & hunt down the LDRQ signal on the mainboard. LPC is a very compact version of the ISA bus that works great with ISA adapter boards, specially an LPC to ISA adapter like [Andy]’s dISAppointment board as used here.