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Ha, just yesterday I’ve found my Asus EEE. Sounds like a good fit for similar exercise.
For anyone who loves retro PC stuff, I highly recommend LGR on YouTube. His videos are a treat to have in the background, and sometimes to even fall asleep to.
Mmm. Chunky computers and bits.
Does it run NetBSD?
It’s cool laptop that inspired today’s small laptop. Nowadays you can buy something like that with powerful spec & smaller form
Yes, obviously. You know, I wonder how many instances of Windows 95 you can simultaneously emulate on an Android smartphone? The point is this is for retro PC enthusiasts/hobbyists. For many, emulation just isn’t the same experience as running it on real hardware.
It’s cool but why?
If you have to ask, it’s not for you. It’s for retro PC enthusiasts
I can see people wanting to use retro software, but what surprises me is this being preferable to modern hardware running old software in emulation.
Especially a laptop, because I doubt that power management is that amazing on DOS.
Maybe there is something out there for which this addresses compatibility problems, but…
I know, you make valid good points, but people who are interested in purchasing this want to run the software on bare metal.
This is pretty late, they’ve been out for months. The most recent addition is the Pocket 8086, waiting on mine to get delivered.
It probably doesnt matter to most of you but it has an 8 bit ISA add-on board, meaning its an easy way to test era appropriate components such as Audio and video cards. Great for people more interested in vintage hardware than software.
Realistically, what can you use this for that’s worthwhile?
Cool looking device though.
You could relive booting up your computer at breakfast to get it ready to use by lunchtime.
If it doesn’t have that hard drive crunch to remind me it hasn’t locked up than I’m not interested.
See for me it’s the “you can now shut down your pc” message so I know I can shut down the uselessly huge toggle on the front of my tower.
I always liked knowing I could kill it with a press. None of this “asking” to shutdown.
Retro gaming?
You’d get better performance from an emulator running in a raspberry pi inside that case.
So we buy it for the case! Retro computing raspberry pi case!!!
You could play Wolfenstein?
But realistically, I could see this being helpful if you maintain a lot of legacy gear and need to drag around something reliable to test with.
40MHz is plenty for doom.
40MHz is plenty for doom.
Ew, no. Even 386DX/40 is terrible for Doom:
Doom timedemo 386 DX 40 MHz DOS PC
486SX/33 is painful, you really want 486DX2/66:
Edit: grammar
Edit 2: These videos are accurate, btw. I upgraded from 386SX/25 to 486SX/33 just for Doom while my friend got the 486DX2/66 Packard Bell. Envy.
Can confirm. My dad had a 386DX-40 when I got my hands on a copy of Doom, and it was a fucking slideshow at best.
I had a 386sx@25MHz too and I don’t remember it being that slow. Unless that demo has the detail cranked up to high or something like that. Although, like that first commenter I had a math co-processor, so maybe that helped.
Are you sure you didn’t set low-detail with the viewport cranked way down? I played it on the same model
with a math co-processorand it could not handle high-detail and the large viewport in the video.Edit: I’m fairly certain I had a math co-processor, but I’ll defer to you on this detail just in case. That would certainly make a sizeable difference.
I think the detail level made a pretty big difference. I definitely ran it in low and kind of forgot that high was an option, but the shotgun animation in that video is bringing up some traumatic memories.