FreeDOS embedded in the BIOS is certainly a nice touch. Then again, the one thing that speaks in favour of the weeCee is the SB-Pro-compatible audio chip. Unique to the weeCee, of all the Vortex-based machines out there.
The Vortex86DX in particular is a "sweet spot" for old-school legacy DOS gaming - that Vortex generation still has native full-fledged ISA bus, can be underclocked below "an equivalent of Pentium 200 MHz" (which is more like 400 Vortex MHz), while at the same time already having an FPU. And the onboard XGI Z9s with 32 MB of dedicated VRAM is also nice (including its VESA option ROM). In other misc hardware, the Vortex86DX has one other potential advantage in the way of "legacy compatibility": the AMI BIOS from ICOP still has configurable options related to ISA IOMEM windows (no particular use for that in the weeCee). On the more modern Vortex generations, this is fading away. Frank On 28 Nov 2021 at 20:00, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Dennis, thank you for sharing. First of all, if you'd like to get a > Vortex86 CPU-based PC, better to get those which are supported by the > opensource coreboot BIOS, instead of the proprietary closed-source > BIOS. This way, with the help of coreboot's SeaBIOS payload, you'll be > able to - using a simple "cbfstool" command - add a floppy image of > FreeDOS / whatever other floppy OS - to the coreboot.rom BIOS image, > flash it into a BIOS chip, and have a FreeDOS permanently available as > a boot entry! (being able to run it directly from a BIOS chip). If > you're interested, ask questions & I could reply with more info :-) > > , 27 . 2021 . 18:37, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com>: > > > > https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/weeCee___Tiny_DOS_Gaming_PC.html > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA > > -- > > ______ > > Dennis > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
