Subj : Re: Small BBS Machines (was: Re: NTVDMx64 issues?)
To : Shurato
From : tenser
Date : Fri Dec 12 2025 12:55 am
On 11 Dec 2025 at 01:03a, Shurato pondered and said...
Sh> te> On 10 Dec 2025 at 01:41p, Shurato pondered and said...
Sh>
Sh> te> Sh> * In a message originally to Shurato, tenser said:
Sh>
Sh> te> Sh> Could I boot Win 10 32 bit? That might be an option... I'd need
Sh> te> Sh> cores and 4 threads and 4GB of RAM and at least 128GB Gen 3 NvME
Sh> te> for
Sh> te> Sh> it... My BBS is Win32, and I run DOS doors. The Linux port neve
Sh> te> Sh> worked.
Sh>
Sh> te> Yeah, those specs sound like about what you could get out of a 8 or
Sh> te> 16G Pi5.
Sh>
Sh> That would need to be including being inside a VM. I just order a SFF PC
Sh> that should work pretty well, though have more power consumption. It
Sh> wouldn't have the issue of being ARM based, though.
Once you factor in the overhead of the host system, you should
still have enough resources to emulate an x86 machine with 4GiB
or RAM. Disk space is probably the easiest to negotiate, as
the overhead required to emulate a fixed-size disk is surprisingly
small, as a percentage of storage required for a (say) 128GB
virtual disk device.
But it'll be much easier to do all this on x86 natively, of course,
so sounds like you've come up with a fantastic compromise solution.
