I previously explored a small DOS-based computer designed to run the display system in commercial kitchens and restaurants. You told me to run Doom on it, so let’s do exactly that.
For the backstory on this hardware, check out the episode where I took it apart:
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Jump to 20:39 to skip past all my blathering. You're welcome.
Might want to change the captions at 4:20
HBS Inc
Hitech Business Software Inc. Wilmington, Delaware
X-DOS
your body language (hands) reminds me of some Sesame street character 🙂
It's called a bump bar
can you run doom on a washing machine?
These were also in Spinx gas stations over here in south carolina. They were in the kitchen where they take orders of chicken and biscuits in the morning.
I wonder if this is like a raspberry pi or arduino, maybe can get audio from the pins that are used for the touch. Also a combo of mouse and keyboard could work.
I wonder how much of this is capable to be mod for dos gaming.
What about running Linux on it?
WHy even try with Windows? Linux runs on anything.
Aha, this must be the video Foone mentioned.
try to run windows 95 lol
msdos
doom
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Time to overlock it
Mac Donald’s have them for there ordering system
what about using a USB to AUDIO ? i dont see why that would not work, you should try it ? might be a cool addon
Oh yeah that's the good stuff
Can this play star wars dark forces?
At 15:00 or so you say the next step is Windows XP — but *why*? That seems like the wrong direction. Why not just go with an older version of Windows or just MS-DOS 6.22? That can play a huge number of DOS games just fine. Why do you want Windows? And then you move to Windows 7 — Linux would have been a way better choice at that point. Just go to DOS!
EDIT: Thank god that's what you did in the end.
Doom resolution is like 320×200. Or 320×240. The CPU on the Vortex is a 486 running hundreds of megahertz… while Doom can run on 386's with a couple of tens of megahertzs. Although not too smooth. Running doom is not a challenge. See how high you can go on resolution with Quake.
Is there a SATA Hat for that board or the X86DUINO
You should have used Windows 3.1 and an old version of WinImage to backup the flash chip. Windows 3.x and earlier do not mess with the sectors on the floppy disk.
I wonder if they released the source for the BIOS on this thing, then you could modify the boot order. I'm no coding expert but it doesn't seem awfully hard to find whatever code determines that, and swap something else to go first.
The wear on the 1 button gave me flashbacks, I started working in a Wendy's about 2 months after it opened so everything was brand new. By year 3 almost all of the 1 buttons were worn off just because of how much more you tend to hit it.