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Dosbian: Boot to DOSBox on Raspberry Pi
- indigodaddy 1y agoI was thinking how to “boot to Lode Runner” on my Pi400, so this might be close enough:)
- ramses0 1y agoJust add an "autoexec.bat"!
- shreddit 1y ago> Join the official Facebook group […] Of all the things, why Facebook?
- jhbadger 1y agoSo many retro things are on Facebook. It's a stereotype that the GenX/Boomer audience interested in retrotech is on Facebook, but it's kinda true.
- TacticalCoder 1y ago[dead]
- guestbest 1y agoFree hosting?
- kwanbix 1y agoAt least is not discord?
- wkjagt 1y agoI'm totally unaware of anything related to Discord or its reputation, other than having joined a PicoCalc server (board? group) and it seems fine. What's up with Discord?
- exasperaited 1y agoI loathe most of Facebook, but private Facebook groups work enormously better than Discord, IMO. (Public groups are nearly worthless) Discord is a distracting fidgety visually overloaded place.
- kwanbix 1y agoThe UX is even worst than facebook groups if that is even possible.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoFacebook at least can have public groups that get indexed by the search engines. since web crawlers can't join non-public group chats, nothing there gets indexed and chats don't show up in web searches. This is opposed to bulletin boards like phpbb or even google groups and listservs where all the messages are submitted to a public repo. This is a choice by discord to give users a feeling of being in a private space, but it's kind of like being in a signal chat, the illusion only holds as long as you know and trust everyone in the group to not just screenshot all of it, so in that sense I appreciate Bluesky's choice to be public first. Somehow no one has rebuilt phpbb on atproto tho, seems like a minor rejiggering of the feeds-of-tweets interface. old forums didn't have threading anyway. Anyway, it annoys me how there's all these open source projects that ostensibly believe in the mission of open source software, but they're all on proprietary third party hosted discrods when self hosting zulip or element is right there, in this sense facebook is better because
- bawolff 1y agoI think most people consider discord a much better choice than fb group.
- ale42 1y agoPersonally the one or the other makes no difference: I wont use it.
- jonbiggums22 1y agoAt least I can probably make a throwaway discord account, at worst with a phone number verification. With facebook they demand selfie video of your head, maybe your driver's license probably also your phone number. And maybe they just ban the account after all that anyway.
- ok_dad 1y ago> Dosbian is compatible with the following Raspberry Pi models: I am amazed this doesn't run on literally any Pi since forever, it seems to be limited to Pi 3 and up. I have an old Pi 1B+ that I still use to host all of my websites.
- teaearlgraycold 1y agoShame it doesn’t run on a Pi Zero (or at least a Zero 2).
- zokier 1y agoI'd assume it is 64-bit, which would explain why it is limited to Pi 3 upwards
- wkjagt 1y agoI had it running on something old (a zero I think) playing with old Word Perfect and dbase. I later wanted to do the same and it no longer supported the zero. Must be some update at some point that dropped support. Too bad, I wanted to put the zero in an old mechanical keyboard.
- geophph 1y agoSo can I run Kings Quest on it if I get the files from GOG?
- rhdunn 1y agoYou should be able to -- https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:King%27s_Quest:_Quest_for_the_Crown https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:King%27s_Quest:_Quest_for_....
- shmerl 1y agoSummVM is probably a better option for it - it doesn't need any emulation.
- theandrewbailey 1y agoI remember playing KQ6 in ScummVM on a RaspberryPI 1 over 10 years ago.
- geophph 1y agoWas just looking into scummvm today too!
- b3lvedere 1y agoYou could also run the remakes of the first three made by AGD Interactive. https://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html https://agdinteractive.com/games/games.html
- geophph 1y agoWoah I did not know about these. Thanks!
- jasperry 1y agoProjects like this are some of my favorite uses for single-board computers. Another one is Bare Metal C64, which aims for low-latency vsynced Commodore emulation on the Pi: https://accentual.com/bmc64/ https://accentual.com/bmc64/
- rzzzt 1y agoThere is one small difference, BMC64 uses Circle and circle-stdlib to produce a bare metal image and does not rely on a Linux distribution: https://github.com/smuehlst/circle-stdlib https://github.com/smuehlst/circle-stdlib
- rcarmo 1y agoI have an original Pi with BMC64 "permanently" slotted in. It seems to work great, even though I was a Sinclair ZX81/Spectrum kid.
- exitb 1y agoYou’ll like this one: https://cbm-pi1541.firebaseapp.com/ https://cbm-pi1541.firebaseapp.com/
- vunderba 1y agoWhenever I see stuff like this, the ITX Llama [1], Pixel x86, etc. I think it's finally the time to build my ultimate love-letter to old school DOS and retro computing but always stop short because of the monitor issue. I feel like a lot of my nostalgia likely stems from the bright super low latency phosphor displays of a proper CRT. No amount of WebGL shaders/filters [2] ever quite seem to capture the original experience IMHO. [1] https://smallformfactor.net/news/retro-sff-itx-llama-is-a-brand-new-dos-win98-retro-pc-with-agp-opl3-wav-header-and-adjustable-cpu-performance https://smallformfactor.net/news/retro-sff-itx-llama-is-a-br... [2] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
- InsideOutSanta 1y agoHigh-res high-refresh-rate OLEDs with modern shaders are getting close. Now somebody needs to make one that has a convex shape like an old CRT. I wish we'd reach a point where modern technology allows us to make new CRTs relatively easily. I don't even necessarily care about the image quality, the screens and TVs I used in my youth were never particularly good. But it doesn't seem that this will become feasible in the next few decades.
- mikepurvis 1y agoCan’t you still just use a real CRT? Or is it then just back to the latency question?
- treve 1y agoFor me they are weirdly hard to obtain. Don't show up in second hand shops. Ebay shipping is prohibitively expensive.
- reverius42 1y agoThey are truly dying out. Wish I'd kept my color c64 monitor -- it would probably be worth a lot now (or at least would be awesome to use for retro purposes).
- haunter 1y agoOn the other hand arguably the best DOSBox version now is the new Pure Unleased, just released 2 days ago (Dosbian is using DOSBox Staging) https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://schelling.itch.io/dosbox-pure https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed https://github.com/schellingb/dosbox-pure-unleashed
- WithinReason 1y agoIsn't DOSBox Staging better? At least the CRT emulation and audio is. https://www.dosbox-staging.org/ https://www.dosbox-staging.org/
- MaximilianEmel 1y agoRelated: https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/ https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packar...
- dsamy 1y agoWhat features or games are you most excited to explore with Dosbian?
- nullbyte808 1y agoWhy not use https://www.freedos.org https://www.freedos.org? Or boot FreeDOS straight from QEMU. Using Debian seems incredibly bloated when the goal is to use DOS. Alpine Linux would be a better base. Then you can use real DOS or a compatible one like FreeDOS.
- reverius42 1y agoThe Raspberry Pi isn't x86 (or even x86_64) so it isn't compatible -- you have to do (at least) CPU emulation to get a DOS-compatible hardware environment. You probably also want to do other hardware emulation for sound, graphics, etc. to be compatible with DOS software.
- alalidia 1y ago[dead]
- mrlonglong 1y agoI have an usb floppy disk drive. I wonder if dosbian could boot off it.
- ptek 1y agoAutoCAD R12 here I come