Trials and tribulations of making McThin Client into a Retro PC
Thank you for joining me on this! True retro gaming on the cheap ($22 total!). If you ask me - save your time and just get DosBox Pure with some beautiful filters and run in on a high resolution OLED 😅
Here's my video comparing modern shaders running on OLED and CRT • Substituting CRT with OLED using great sha...
If you take a close look at the short • Lotus 3 on real hardware and CRT with DOS ... with Lotus 3, you'll notice that this graphics card does line doubling in 320x240, but that is exactly what original VGA did! This computer turned out to be very accurate VGA machine with Sound Blaster - main exception was the crazy issues with memory under DOS.
If you're curious about the setup on Itona TC7521d, you can find the config files here, along with the description of how I made Itona run DOS and then dualboot with Windows 7
https://github.com/PandaEngineerYT/Vi...
00:00 The problem with modern emulation
02:42 Itona thin client as retro PC remplacement
06:10 Booting to real DOS
08:29 Showing off the SoundBlaster compatibility
09:53 DOS problems are there regardless of the hardware
11:30 Even more memory problems under DOS
14:34 Blinded by nostalgia