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The real pertinent question here is: Can I install Win311 on it!?

• ndiddy 2y ago
  In theory yes, but because it's running in a VM the only way to get data into the computer is via the keyboard. You'd have to set something up like what this guy did to install Doom (except pretending to be a USB keyboard instead of a PS/2 one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysjoh1hoIr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysjoh1hoIr8
• kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
  [C|E|V]GA support on modern video hardware can be flaky. I have a native FreeDOS install on a Ryzen 5000 machine to run some old parallel port hardware that doesn't work under 64-bit DOSEmu2 for me. Lots of the games cause quirky video artifacts and lock op the computer in unusual ways that wouldn't happen on a legacy BIOS PC.
  • dlenski 2y ago
    > [C|E|V]GA support on modern video hardware can be flaky. Interesting. Do you think this is because the GPU’s support has bitrotted due to lack of testing? Or something else?
    • toast0 2y ago
      Lack of motivation, probably. There's a lot of fiddly details to fully cover VGA. And very few people using it still, so there you go. Kind of a shame, because some of the features are super handy for hobby OSes; scrolling the screen by moving the start address is so much nicer than scrolling by copying, but you can't do that with a frame buffer that UEFI set up for you. Text mode is handy too, although 8-bit characters is problematic; UEFI's boot services has a text mode console, but when you exit boot services, you've got to render text on your own.