by vunderba on 10/19/25, 8:48 PM
Whenever 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-br...
[2] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
by ok_dad on 10/19/25, 8:28 PM
> 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.
by haunter on 10/19/25, 9:31 PM
by jasperry on 10/19/25, 8:37 PM
Projects 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/by shreddit on 10/19/25, 8:03 PM
> Join the official Facebook group […]
Of all the things, why Facebook?
by geophph on 10/19/25, 8:34 PM
So can I run Kings Quest on it if I get the files from GOG?
by MaximilianEmel on 10/19/25, 9:48 PM
by dsamy on 10/19/25, 10:26 PM
What features or games are you most excited to explore with Dosbian?
by indigodaddy on 10/19/25, 7:36 PM
I was thinking how to “boot to Lode Runner” on my Pi400, so this might be close enough:)
by nullbyte808 on 10/19/25, 10:48 PM
Why not use
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.
by mrlonglong on 10/20/25, 2:02 PM
I have an usb floppy disk drive. I wonder if dosbian could boot off it.
by ptek on 10/21/25, 3:00 AM
AutoCAD R12 here I come