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whammoed:


--- Quote from: arcadecollecting on September 27, 2005, 04:28:22 pm ---If I find DOS won't cut it for me, I'll probably just change the Windows registry so that it loads straight into the front end instead of explorer.exe.

Still wondering what people's opinions are on what motherboard boots the quickest with a hideable post screen.

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As far as hiding the bios post screen, look for asus boards with mylogo and mylogo2.  They let you load a custom pic for the bios boot splash.

Flinkly:

or set up your comp so that the screen turns on after 15 seconds...

if i remember right, the bits limited strip does that, or can be configured to do that.

elvis:


--- Quote from: spystyle on September 27, 2005, 08:40:05 am ---I bet they write drivers for all the new hardware.

As for the common onboard sound, AC97. I bet someone has written a DOS driver for that...
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Instead of "betting" on it, why don't you research it and provide us with some links?

So far all I've ever seen with people trying to get PCI sound working in DOS is a whole bunch of headaches as PCI gear cannot map to low enough IRQs for DOS software.

For me, if I want good hardware support, a quick loading OS, and no GUI overhead, I use Linux.  My cocktail cab uses less than 5MB total for general OS needs (2MB of that for the uncompressed kernel, and the other 3MB for the frontend and system) which leaves me buckets for ROM playing.  I use a recent 2.6 kernel that supports almost every single chipset, video and sound card on the market.  Gone are the days when I had to shop for specific hardware for my OS.  Now I just get whatever's cheap, and I know it'll run just peachy.

Of course, insert obligatory counter-post about someone complaining Linux is "too hard" because it's not like Windows. :)


Level42:

Linux is "too hard" because it's not like Windows.


Always glad to fulfill someone's expectations HAHA

Seriously. Will a SIS chipset based Mobo a good choice ? I can get an ASROCK microATA for socket A processor for a very nice price but I'm a bit hasitant normaly on SIS chipsets ?

http://www.1to0.nl/productinfo.php?id=725&cat=9

Minwah:


--- Quote from: spystyle on September 27, 2005, 08:40:05 am ---A desktop OS sucks on a cab, period. It's a waste of horsepower.

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Not neccessarily true.  Windows actually performs better than DOS on many PC's...the newer the hardware the more likely this is to be true.

FWIW my 1.4ghz AMD system performed like crap in DOS, compared to in Windows, which is why I made the switch...

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