Classic DOS Games On An Arduino?
It has been a even though because we’ve witnessed a 86Duino, but [TheRasteri] reminded us about it, with his movie displaying how to use one particular to operate basic MS-DOS video games. To be reasonable, the laptop or computer isn’t seriously an Arduino, it is basically a small 486 Pc on an Arduino-fashion PCB.
If it had been just operating DOS game titles on a small Computer, that wouldn’t be very newsworthy. On the other hand, the board by alone has no video clip card and, as [TheRasteri] factors out, sound card compatibility is also a problem. A provider board, even so, has a very small VGA card on it, and thanks to some function from one more consumer, it is attainable to increase an ISA bus to the board if you want to plug in a legacy audio card.
The ISA hack was finished neatly, but it is a little bit of wiring. As a substitute of working with a regular ISA backplane, it is doable to use a Personal computer/104 backplane, if you have cards that will in shape that bus — electrically, they are the exact. The board was in a position to run DOOM and Quake at approximately 30 frames for every second. Not terrible. He did have troubles acquiring a mouse to perform, however.
Acquired a bit nostalgic observing him use QBasic to straight create to registers on an ISA card. If you want an previous DOS machine and do not want to tie up a whole lot of space, this could be the ticket. In particular if you need to have it to operate some aged piece of components that will not work with contemporary pcs. We have to question if everyone would make a USB to ISA adapter out of a thing like this. The drivers would appear to be to be the really hard part.
We observed the 86Duino virtually 10 yrs ago when there ended up a several other x86 one-board computers all around. Apparently, plenty of individuals want to operate classic online games.
