Jim Hall wrote: [..] > > It arrived Friday. I powered it on to make sure it works, and it does. > > They've pre-installed some pirated copy of Win95 on there, but I'll > > reinstall the whole thing with FreeDOS anyway. :-) > > > > The Pocket386 only boots from the internal C: drive (a CF card). I > > thought I still had a CF card reader (can't find it) so I've ordered a > > new one. My plan is to image the CF card from Linux and make a copy, > > then use QEMU with that drive image to install FreeDOS, then write the > > image to the CF so I can boot the Pocket386 with it. > > > > I also ordered a PS/2 keyboard, because the built-in keyboard is too > > tiny to do real work on. It's 8 1/4 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/4 (inches).
Jerome Shidel wrote: > Having fun with your 386? > > Does it have sound and does it work under DOS? > > Where are you Benchmarks?? I haven't tinkered with it too much yet, because that micro keyboard makes my wrists ache just by *looking* at it. The keys are so tiny (letters are 13mm x 11mm .. arrows and punctuation keys are 10mm x 11mm) that I often hit the key next to the letter I'm trying to type. I'm looking forward to using a full-size PS/2 keyboard. :-) Win95 says: Cirrus Logic CL-GD 5420 r1 Rev 0 video card (512k video memory) 8 MB RAM Ad Lib Gold compatible OPL3 sound card The CPU is 386SX-40. Since I can't install DOS applications yet (that's why I ordered a CF card reader) I can't say if the Ad Lib sound card actually works with DOS games. I'll share an update when the CF card reader arrives and I wipe this with FreeDOS and put some games and other software on it. :-) Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
