The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone

Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by thom on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:25PM (#25060408)

If I wanted a more or less as-new 486 system to run old DOS stuff on, what are my options? Are there companies that do custom builds, possibly in a more modern case, or places I could get unused components? I've considered this as a project for a while, because DOSBox only satiates my nostalgia to a point.

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Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by mfielder on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:09PM (#25064127)

I wanted to do the same thing but not deal with too many old parts. There are a bunch of single board computers with clone x86 pentium-ish cpus available all on a single ISA card, so I plugged one into ISA backplane, added a vintage VGA and SB card, and wrote a TSR that uses one of the watchdog timers on the board to slow it down a bunch so I could play Wing Commander II again. It’s a fun and not terribly expensive weekend project.

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Re:The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered So... by rasz on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @12:38PM (#25060569)

>companies that do custom builds

clicking buy is not a project, but if you just want to buy ready made old computer look at amibay or vcfed.org, both have trading sections.

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