Hi Vincent! I would say as long as it has at least a few megabytes of RAM and at least a 386 CPU, FreeDOS should run on any PC ;-) Which specific parts are you worried about? The BIOS will usually support "legacy" OS such as DOS in helping with USB keyboard and mouse access and access to any built-in harddisk or SSD.
Even the newest graphics cards should still support classic text mode and common VGA modes, but there is a thread in the BTTR forum complaining that some new graphics cards became too exotic for DOS games. Note that almost no game for DOS will support current sound infrastructure such as AC97 or HDA. If you are looking for sound beyond the PC speaker or beeper, it is better to run DOS in a virtual environment such as dosemu2 or a complete generic virtual PC. Using dosemu has the advantage that you get guest drivers which let you access a Linux directory as if it was a DOS disk. Regarding disk sizes: FreeDOS supports only MBR style partitions yet, no GPT, so you are limited to using the first 2 TB of your disks. If your BIOS does not support LBA48, it could even be the first 128 GB. Regards, Eric PS: There are some DOS media players which support some newer sound chips, but I do not know any games which do. > I have a little HP11 streaming laptop I'm not using - I used it to try out > Linux Mint, now it's redundant - is it a good candidate for FreeDOS? I'd be > dependant on the USB ports for I/O. Thank you! _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
