Ltning (@ltning@weirdr.net)

Ltning

@ltning@weirdr.net

He/him. This is one of my alter egos in the retro world. Read about this instance on front page. My goal is to be able to post here from a 286* running DOS. Might be a while..

#FreeBSD and #OSS enthusiast with a craving for retro (mostly PC) hardware. Four kids and a wonderful patchwork family.

*Speaking of 286es: http://floppy.museum/

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Ltning » 2025-01-09
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I'm thinking of running it on a 120/133MHz AMD 5x86 or something like that. It should (at least) have 64MB RAM, possibly 128 if I can get it to cache the whole range.

A bigger challenge will be the Nintendo WII - it has, I believe, 24MB or something like that? But at least the CPU should be vastly superior to any 486..

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theothertom » 2025-01-09
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@ltning 24MB is tight, though you might be able to do it if you use something else as a proxy in front on Snac.
Something else that might not be immediately obvious too - lots of 32-bit builds target i686 these days, at least for Linux. The only Linux distro I could find that targets i586 with recent releases was Slackware - dunno what the situation is for NetBSD though.

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Ltning » 2025-01-09
@ltning@weirdr.net

@tom@epsom.social fully expect I have to build a bunch of stuff myself. Including netbsd. But I expect snac to build nicely and not require any special gymnastics. :)