The weeCee: A Tiny New MS-DOS & Windows Gaming PC!
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Date: 2022-04-14
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D827
This is great. Shows what great work some people are doing along with things like the mister.
The biggest problem is probably the ongoing chip shortage pushing prices higher. Old vintage systems can be rather difficult to keep working without cate and attention so something like this is probably a next best, though the lack of 3d acceleration is a shame. I wonder what options would even be feasible though.
I think making it a bit bigger so more io can be added and allow it to be vesa mountable could work quite well though.
I sadly don't have anything newer than a p4 these days (though I do have a very old pentium m laptop somewhere I think, so while I could cover windows xp era ok, dos/9x is a bit harder and old 486/pentium systems seem to be both rather rare and expensive these days, when it wasn't that long ago such systems were deemed junk and thrown out by lots of people over the years.
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This is great. Shows what great work some people are doing along with things like the mister.
The biggest problem is probably the ongoing chip shortage pushing prices higher. Old vintage systems can be rather difficult to keep working without cate and attention so something like this is probably a next best, though the lack of 3d acceleration is a shame. I wonder what options would even be feasible though.
I think making it a bit bigger so more io can be added and allow it to be vesa mountable could work quite well though.
I sadly don't have anything newer than a p4 these days (though I do have a very old pentium m laptop somewhere I think, so while I could cover windows xp era ok, dos/9x is a bit harder and old 486/pentium systems seem to be both rather rare and expensive these days, when it wasn't that long ago such systems were deemed junk and thrown out by lots of people over the years.
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Ol'
I've been looking for years for a practical way to run Seer Systems Reality (arguably the first commercial software synthesizer, and impossible to run on anything other than Windows 95 or maybe vanilla Win98; doesn't play well with virtual machines and even if it works the latency is too high and the support for audio and MIDI hardware is prety much nonexistant in general purpose VMs, so it jsut isn't a solution) without resorting to a dedicated Pentium I (it's a really interesting program even today, but not THAT interesting. This might finally be it, and small enough to make it easy to use as a standalone instrument in a modern music hardware setup, too.
I'll have to start collecting parts in the spring.
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I've been looking for years for a practical way to run Seer Systems Reality (arguably the first commercial software synthesizer, and impossible to run on anything other than Windows 95 or maybe vanilla Win98; doesn't play well with virtual machines and even if it works the latency is too high and the support for audio and MIDI hardware is prety much nonexistant in general purpose VMs, so it jsut isn't a solution) without resorting to a dedicated Pentium I (it's a really interesting program even today, but not THAT interesting. This might finally be it, and small enough to make it easy to use as a standalone instrument in a modern music hardware setup, too.
I'll have to start collecting parts in the spring.
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Muranaman
Amazing! I always wished to have a cheap PC that could run Windows 3. 11 to Windows 95 natively.
If they only would be able to run a 2 core, 3Ghz CPU, with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and an on board IGP that outclasses the older ATI Radeon GPUs, yet has vga/svga compatible graphics options built in for DOS, you'd be able to max out all your games on something like that.
Add an emmc drive, split into partitions for DOS, Windows 3. x, and Windows 98se, to use either as OS drive, or with few smaller games installed; using the sd card slot for games.
For SD card I'd probably go with a Sandisk A1, micro SD card. The A2 is too fast for this application; the A1 is cheaper, and fast enough.
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Amazing! I always wished to have a cheap PC that could run Windows 3. 11 to Windows 95 natively.
If they only would be able to run a 2 core, 3Ghz CPU, with 4GB of DDR3 RAM, and an on board IGP that outclasses the older ATI Radeon GPUs, yet has vga/svga compatible graphics options built in for DOS, you'd be able to max out all your games on something like that.
Add an emmc drive, split into partitions for DOS, Windows 3. x, and Windows 98se, to use either as OS drive, or with few smaller games installed; using the sd card slot for games.
For SD card I'd probably go with a Sandisk A1, micro SD card. The A2 is too fast for this application; the A1 is cheaper, and fast enough.
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Methamphetamelon
Things like this make me wish AMD would open source the architecture of the K6-2 or K6-3, maybe even the original Athlon along with their accompanying North and Southbridges and a decent GPU to go along with it. Let the open source community create an SoC based around that and maybe even make improvements or something. It'd be equally as cool if Intel did something similar but they never really had a decent GPU offering and it would still require lending a hand by AMD or nVidia or something.
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Things like this make me wish AMD would open source the architecture of the K6-2 or K6-3, maybe even the original Athlon along with their accompanying North and Southbridges and a decent GPU to go along with it. Let the open source community create an SoC based around that and maybe even make improvements or something. It'd be equally as cool if Intel did something similar but they never really had a decent GPU offering and it would still require lending a hand by AMD or nVidia or something.
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CHRISMENENDEZ
I wouldn't mind getting one of those for 400 or even 450 dollars if it saves me from building an ancient PC from scrap parts (as that's the only kind of old parts you can usually get here in Mexico, we don't have much of an -old new stock- market, but even if they were sold online, I probably wouldn't be able to buy it from outside the U. S. which is always a shame.
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I wouldn't mind getting one of those for 400 or even 450 dollars if it saves me from building an ancient PC from scrap parts (as that's the only kind of old parts you can usually get here in Mexico, we don't have much of an -old new stock- market, but even if they were sold online, I probably wouldn't be able to buy it from outside the U. S. which is always a shame.
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traida111
98 Second edition was my favorite windows: ) how do I buy one of these? you played the best games. I really like the older ones, like you played commander keen and another world. But some old classics I used to play as a kid in the 80's and 90's, alley cat, zaxxon, paratrooper, moonbugs, ikari warriors 2 victory road, dark ages, hard hat mac, digger, prince of persia
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98 Second edition was my favorite windows: ) how do I buy one of these? you played the best games. I really like the older ones, like you played commander keen and another world. But some old classics I used to play as a kid in the 80's and 90's, alley cat, zaxxon, paratrooper, moonbugs, ikari warriors 2 victory road, dark ages, hard hat mac, digger, prince of persia
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Quinn
What spec games could this feasibly play? Interested in playing Diablo 1 and 2 on close to original hardware on a CRT, but also perhaps, the original Deus Ex and or Unreal Tournament GOTY and other such late 90's early 2000's 3d games.
IS this aimed more squarely at DOS and a few low-requirement windows games?
Will this struggle with 3d games?
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What spec games could this feasibly play? Interested in playing Diablo 1 and 2 on close to original hardware on a CRT, but also perhaps, the original Deus Ex and or Unreal Tournament GOTY and other such late 90's early 2000's 3d games.
IS this aimed more squarely at DOS and a few low-requirement windows games?
Will this struggle with 3d games?
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MrSaywutnow
A great idea, but like you said, the small form factor is its Achilles heel.
Something in a bigger package (and using more than USB power) would result in a much more useful and feature complete device.
I guess they'd have to call such a machine the Not-so-weecee?
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A great idea, but like you said, the small form factor is its Achilles heel.
Something in a bigger package (and using more than USB power) would result in a much more useful and feature complete device.
I guess they'd have to call such a machine the Not-so-weecee?
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Jose
Once PC Classic from unit-e is dead, long live to the weecee. I encourage to the guy doing this to make a KS campaign to produce the weecee but in a mini tower PC case from the 90s, it would be insta-buy for me. With a mini TFT screen, mini keyboard and mouse as an add-on: )
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Once PC Classic from unit-e is dead, long live to the weecee. I encourage to the guy doing this to make a KS campaign to produce the weecee but in a mini tower PC case from the 90s, it would be insta-buy for me. With a mini TFT screen, mini keyboard and mouse as an add-on: )
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Deku
This is super random, but its thanks to this video that I was able to find an old pc game I played years and years ago at a daycare center in a highschool. That monster truck game in the first clip has lived in my head for years, and I finally found it
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This is super random, but its thanks to this video that I was able to find an old pc game I played years and years ago at a daycare center in a highschool. That monster truck game in the first clip has lived in my head for years, and I finally found it
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