Subj : Re: Small BBS Machines (was: Re: NTVDMx64 issues?)
To : tenser
From : Shurato
Date : Wed Dec 10 2025 01:41 pm
* In a message originally to Shurato, tenser said:
> On 09 Dec 2025 at 05:29p, Shurato pondered and said...
> Sh> Ex> Thats why I don't understand all of the people going I can't run
> this
> Sh> Ex> my machine, on a vm, under win11, etc. Spend $40 for your hobby a
> Sh> Ex> BOOM .. everything works with the OS that is close enough to what
> Sh> Ex> it was supposed to be run on.
> Sh> I live in a studio apt. My main PC and laptop take up too much room.
> I
> Sh> have to do this on mini-PCs.
> What about a Raspberry Pi and full-system emulation via QEMU? You
> could boot DOS, or OS/2, or whatever, and it'd probably be fast
> enough.
Could I boot Win 10 32 bit? That might be an option... I'd need 4 cores and
4 threads and 4GB of RAM and at least 128GB Gen 3 NvME SSD for it... My BBS
is Win32, and I run DOS doors. The Linux port never worked.
