pulusoundno wait i do!!
"PC ???" bin saves the day 😍
ive installed the board + i/o shield, put in a CMOS battery and thats about all that can be done today
curiously it seems that both the cooler and adapter are ready for pickup now despite it being saturday. DOS today???
i could unscrew the bracket from the mobo but then it is impossible to screw it back with the cooler clip in the way
ok then i need to think about storage. this thing does appear to have SATA. not sure if it can boot from USB for installation purposes
well, i can boot into FreeDOS on the USB drive but it doesnt seem to see the SATA HDD at all
well, booting XP installer from USB turns out to be harder than even OS 9. pondering whether burning a CD or installing to the HDD via a VM would be less annoying
also i am starting to want a PicoIDE
for the VM route i guess i first need a SATA AHCI driver for the controller VirtualBox emulates and then another one post installation for the actual mobo. urgh
"Don't contact Microsoft for troubleshooting nLited installations" dont tell me what to do!!
wow theres installation music? i dont think ive ever had working audio at this point before
i believe i have the correct driver installed now but the Athlon machine will not boot from the SATA drive
fine. i will try IDE
VM-installed XP on an IDE drive gets a bit further, to the "Windows failed to start up" screen where it offers safe mode and such. but no luck from there, safe mode or not
in order to feel like i accomplished something before i go to bed i installed Debian 12. but i accidentally accepted the default GNOME install option. it takes several eternities to boot and runs at 1 frame per sometimes. lol
this is me trying to install FreeDOS to the IDE drive, which unlike SATA was at least detected. but.. yeah
i was internet-brainedly looking for a FreeDOS beginner's guide today but there is of course documentation built in
SuperIlu@ahihi btw: I added MMSynth as a plugin to #DOjS with the last release.
So if you wanna code some #synthesizers in #Javascript on #MSDOS...
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOjS/blob/master/tests/mmsynth.js
@dec_hl interesting. does it work with AC97 sound? i dont have a soundblaster or anything 😄
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