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Alternatively, a Raspberry pi 4 should be powerful enough to run PCem emulating a 486 class system I think.
by tomatocracy 4y ago
Alternatively, a Raspberry pi 4 should be powerful enough to run PCem emulating a 486 class system I think.
- marttt 4y agoSure, there are emulators, but I was thinking of a native system. Emulators seem to work great, but I try to avoid several layers of abstractions. Also, feeling nostalgic about how a native FreeDOS system boots in literally 2 seconds (on a modest laptop), I guess. Someone built this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8 And this, the weeCee; the price point estimated in the comments is around $600, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA A third one, with lots of diy involved: https://github.com/eivindbohler/tinyllama https://github.com/eivindbohler/tinyllama It is interesting nonetheless that really-low-spec SBCs have not gone into the masses (thus resulting in dirt-cheap prices) the way the RPis have. It is still a nice dream to see this happening with the current rise of retrocomputing.