Can I introduce you to my old laptop?

[t18]

Someone likes old cars, I'm very fond of my old laptop.

Time has hurt it, so some treatment was necessary (please see the attached image).

[t18]

Now it's in a great shape again (please see the attached image).

[curaga]

Nice work, wooden laptops aren't common.

[Rich]

Hi t18

... wooden laptops aren't common.

At least not since the 1800's, when settlers on the go would head
off to market and maw sat in the back of the horse drawn wagon
putting together the shopping list on the family laptop ...... 

Beautiful job. I think it looks great.

[Leee]

Nice. 

[vinceASPECT]

Great

You can get beautiful wooden watches..........many different designs and they are not expensive and lightweight.  Some have open-heart FRONT faces into all the cogs and same on reverse..


There are some good new SBC's out  at 10 dollars and 15..........
RADAX has released them with a similar theme to Raspberry pi 5.......and form factor
There are kits where you can put them into a Laptop

https://liliputing.com/radxa-introduced-rock-2a-and-rock-2f-single-board-pcs-with-rk3528a-chips/

They run a flavor of DEBIAN Linux and Android.......

Thx

[t18]

Thank you all, I think I'm done for now with that device.

I thought I'd get away with it in no time. It took nearly one year free time instead, using makeshift tools and cheap material to contain costs (my time is free ).

And struggling to solve typical prototype problems.

Now I know I won't do it again. 

[gadget42]

wood you like to try freedos?

https://opensource.com/article/22/1/try-freedos

[t18]

wood you like to try freedos?

https://opensource.com/article/22/1/try-freedos

Not on this device, it's a Pentium II 160 Mb RAM.
Freedos needs a VM to run.

[gadget42]

Not on this device, it's a Pentium II 160 Mb RAM.
Freedos needs a VM to run.

perhaps we are not speaking of the same "FreeDOS"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS#Compatibility

FreeDOS requires a PC/XT machine with at least 640 kB of memory.

your PII with 160Mb ram is overkill

[t18]

perhaps we are not speaking of the same "FreeDOS"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS#Compatibility

FreeDOS requires a PC/XT machine with at least 640 kB of memory.

On the following page:  https://freedos.org/download/
they write:

Code: [Select]

We recommend you use a PC emulator to install FreeDOS.
and that's what I've understood.

Anyway I'm not interested in running any DOS as a standalone OS, but in running some DOS programs on Linux.
I thought Dosbox-X were the best choice. I'm waiting some clarifications from them.

Else it would be:
Core + VirtualBox + Freedos + DOS program
instead of
Core + Dosbox-X + DOS program.

The RAM requirement is different.

[gadget42]

just for future visitors to this thread

did a forum search for "FreeDOS" and came up with 42 references with this one from December 17th, 2008 being the oldest:

https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,217.msg1588.html#msg1588

naturally THIS post will increase that number to 43(goes without saying...but still...lol...where's @PDP-8 with a chime-in!?)

as always, your mileage may vary

[gadget42]

also for future thread visitors

Building a FreeDOS bootable USB stick under Linux
(circa 2011 but still good general knowledge and some extras as well)
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2011/06/building-a-freedos-bootable-us.html

more:
flashrom was mentioned so for convenience:
https://wiki.flashrom.org/Laptops

previous forum post by tinypoodle(2010):
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,349.msg38773.html#msg38773

20241007-0138am-cdt-usa-modified: added forum post link

[vinceASPECT]

there is ARACHE graphical web browser for freedos  2021  last version

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser)

https://www.glennmcc.org

Thx
C

[vinceASPECT]

There is also  MINUET  tool which contains a graphical web browser
at HTTP 1.0  which you could use with a linker web page so you can surf

HTTP  2.0  stuff

http://old-dos.ru/index.php?page=files&mode=files&do=show&id=6520

1.0  beta  18A   .........there

thx
C