Big Flippers Ep5 - The Big Sold, but first I need to install MS-DOS on a 90's 486 PC and upgrade it!

[@charlievela]

This is FANTASTIC, I own an Angela II and have thought about doing exactly this for years. Thank you!

[@andrewtaylor9704]

Great video; I think I would have went for finding an early ATX pentium board. You could have then used a new case and a new modern PSU.

[@larswillsen]

Those were the days! Wazzup Youtooob 🙂

[@dragonheadthing]

"I swapped out the fan while you weren't looking." :D

[@channelite]

Great video!

[@fwingebritson]

Given the aversion, and disdain for older hardware, why not just use PCEM or 86box to do effectively the same thing with newer hardware?

[@LightningBoyAudio]

I mentioned the reason why you can’t in the beginning of the vid. According to David Rochester of Technical Audio Services, the mixing board needs to reference the clock speed of the processor and it requires a very specific speed range that can’t exceed 133mHz. That’s the primary reason why you can’t run an emulation. David worked on these desks for Harmon after they acquired AMEK in the late 90’s. He was “the guy” Harmon sent everyone to for repairs. David even got training from AMEK.

[@fwingebritson]

@@LightningBoyAudio PCEM and 86box is set at the bios of the emulators very accurately. That is how most people get old clock dependent software to work on new systems.

[@LightningBoyAudio]

I was told it wasn’t possible, but you have me thinking I should take a closer look. After all, it would be ideal to use a modern computer.

[@lelandclayton5462]

@@LightningBoyAudio It should work just fine in PCEM and 86box. I've used it a few times on CNC controllers that require a preferred clock reference. Couple of builds I did were used office grade Dells. Tossed in a SSD and Serial / Parallel cards. Installed a minimal Debian Linux install then loaded PCEM in turn loaded up OS\2 Warp 4. 86box however is more intensive to setup. I'm thinking to give DOSBox a try next.

[@Agret]

​​@@lelandclayton5462I've used DOSBox to virtualize old point of sale software for Win98 about 6yrs ago. It's a real pain to use it with physical port passthrough, wouldn't recommend it. Took a lot of tweaking to get it working with their label and receipt printers. I had to use a weird fork of it someone did as you can't do that at all in the base version of it (no printing support). I wish PCem existed back then it would've made life so much easier.

[@lucasrem]

I moded MSCDEX so it can address all drives in DOS 6.22

[@gsestream]

yeah rpi zero style mini computers are just fine, and those 486/pentium computers

[@Lmoes]

Great stuff!! I want to do this with my 501. No chance you could add a simple parts list to this for some easy ebay browsing? Followed this whole restoration and am very impressed.

[@LightningBoyAudio]

Yeah, I’ll try to add that to the description. Thanks for watching!

[@Lmoes]

Thanks for this series. Loved every second of it

[@StenIsaksson]

Mac users would struggle to install DOS, or Windows, because they can't find the Any key. ;)

[@lucasrem]

You can doo any key on the magic mouse it says