@slaine np. Contributions & Feedback welcome.

• But basically the Idea of the #tiny486 is similar to the #NuXT¹, #ITXllama², #Wee86³ / #WeeCee⁴ & #PixelX86⁵...

@landley @krutonium which,I think is good longterm because it allows for cheaper low-end devices that sip less power for @OS1337 compared to #i486 (like #Vortex86 as used for the #tiny486 board among many more, like @rasteri 's #WeeCee)...

@wyatt not really.

@rasteri didn't pay thousands for his #WeeCee either...

And yes, this is inspired by @rasteri 's #Wee86 #WeeCee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI

See the Project: https://github.com/OS-1337/tiny486 @OS1337

I guess @rasteri and other #PC104 users can now get the beloved #ISA-#USB #Flashdrive card with native PC104 pinout to stack on boards.

• Not that this is much of an engineering feat, as PC/104 is just a different form factor of ISA, but still nifty for #legacy / #industrial setups that may want to have more flexibility re: data storage.

I wounder if anyone got those ISA-USB controllers to work on #Linux distros tho.

• Obviously they're slow (according to @TechTangents in the realm of a 1x CD-ROM drive) and not bootable, but still useful for systems without native USB ports.

I sadly don't have any system with ISA or PC/104 at hand (gotta build one i.e. #tiny486) so I can't test it anyway, but maybe a future revision of the #WeeCee may benefit from such an option (which I think also has the potential to be a good "bridge machine" for people dealing with legacy / industrial systems...

#VintageComputing #IndustrialComputing #EmbeddedComputing

@PaulaMaddox noice!

This sounds like a reasonaboe upgrade for the #WeeCee & #Wee86 once #CS4237B chips run out.

• Pretty shure @rasteri and @polpo find this cool!

@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal to answer your question stuff like @rasteri 's #Wee86 * & #WeeCee ** are quite common in #embedded & #industrial setups because as much superior the #Atom Z520 and E3815 are, these have been discontinued unlike the #Vortex86 SoCs!

• Plus there is no good #ISA support with modern SoC's (Pretty shure not even on AMD's SoC's & #VIA has axed their #ix86)...

Yes, I hate #Microsoft & dislike the fact that people.use #MSDOS despite it being deprecated longer than #WindowsXP exists but someone's gotta have to do #DataRecovery or at least #backup & #restore said systems' drives...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114738983433662865

@polpo I guess that solves @rasteri 's #SupplyChain problems for any future #Wee86 / #WeeCee designs and avoid being dependent on "new old stock" like the #CS4237B…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBsv-jRiIT8&t=248s

@foone @ann3nova @TechTangents @texec @fuchsiii which reminds me that I'm still looking for a 5,25" 1200kB FDD and a 3,5" 2880kB FDD to shove into my #Z600 which is the newest machine I have that supports #FDD|s with an onboard controller and I'm not in the position to like build a #dISAppointed - Adapter or a #WeeCee like @rasteri did.

I mean, I'd love to see a #PC104 version of the #QuadFlop for like a #archival & #datarecovery machine...

Started tinkering with the #WeeCee and just learned about https://easy2boot.xyz/

Wow, what a weird-looking yet incredibly powerful utility!

Plan for tonight: Install MS-DOS on the #WeeCee to publish a post on Mastodon using #DOStodon. Might be overly ambitious though—let’s see what roadblocks I encounter.

#msdos #retrocomputing

@dec_hl Also just watched this and was reminded that I have a #WeeCee in my collection which I never really set up. I hope I find some time to do that soon!

That being said @w84death 's #Floppinux v0.2.1 just booted through fine, so yeah, perfectly feasible as "low end testbed" unless I get like a #VIA #C3 / #C5 / #C7 or one of those expensive #Vortex86-made #486SX clones that @rasteri used for the #WeeCee, tho I'm shure noone would go below a #RaspberryPi #Pi0 / #Pi0W v1.3 or the original #PiModelB v1.2 in terms of #FrugalComputing.

@SweetAIBelle Needless to say I'm convinced I can just boot @OS1337 from either a #USB-#Floppy(-#Emulator via USB Adaptor) or regular #flashdrive using #Ventoy, as #ISOLINUX distro...

• I've been using that for a while to do #multiboot - #flashdrives to replace #YUMI and not rely on the expensive #IODD hard drive / SSD cases...

I'll test it out today...

Luckily I have some "bare metal" to test against:

• Sony Vaio P11Z (Atom Z520 / i586 & sse3_atom)
• hp t530 (AMD GX-212 / i686, amd64 & sse4.1 )
• Zotac IONITX A-E (Atom 330 / i586, amd64 & sse3_atom)

Sadly I don't have much more "lower end" or "legacy" systems as a significant collection of mine got stolen from storage years ago and I don't have the money flying around to build @rasteri 's #Wee86 / #WeeCee... I was thinking about getting one of those Dell Wyse 3040 which AFAIK come with a #cursed #32bit #UEFI...

Sadly "Potato-level" #Netbooks running #VIA #C7 chips are nowadays rare and absurdly expensive and targeting those would be good as they already get too slow for mainstream 32bit distros like #BunsenLabsLinux so repurposing those as #OS1337 testing machines and target hardware may be a good option...
Tho just clocking down a #ThinClient with VIA Edenwould be sufficient to test out.

One of the machines that stolen from me was a Futro S300 with a #Transmeta CPU that I originally intended to use as #Windows95 box...

• Like with #Android - #ROMs I've to likely do custom .config files to target such hardware and stay within the 1440kB size Limit for or the "CORE Edition"...

@sabi Well, there are #FlexRisers and besides the #PicoGUS by @polpo there are also #CS4237B-based #ISA Soundcards...

• In theory you could use the #WeeCee / #Wee86 documentation and Schematics from @rasteri to #DIY such a solution...

That could not only fit into 1U @ 19" but also #NUC / #UCFF form factors and be entirely #fanless on it's own...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI

@felsqualle thx m8!
That'll really make it easier for folks that want to #DIY their #Wee86 or #WeeCee like the one @rasteri built.

I hope @polpo can make the #PicoGUS as flexible as the #CS4237B over time so that there's a means to build a #MSDOS-based "#DOSmini" system with accurate hardware and only new stock parts...

@icefoxx I really should take a closer look at the #PicoGUS by @polpo since it's likely to be a more reliable to source option than a #CS4237B as used by @rasteri for the #Wee86 & #WeeCee...

@felsqualle
I started @OS1337 before #Microsoft released #MSDOS under a permissive #FLOSS license and I doubt it's possible to fiddle-in #toybox and other #unix-esque tools under #DOS...

• Because as nice as #DOS is, a somewhat modern #Linux is way more #versatile...

That being said I do think that MS-DOS 4.0 being released and people working on it is a net positive for the #RetroGaming community and will allow people to basically build new #WeeCee / #Wee86 - Style #MiniPC|s without relying on Microsoft not caring about piracy of EoL'd Windows Versions at all...

@fuchsiii @foone @Raspberry_Pi @ActionRetro

OR you could install network support and setup a #RaspberryPi as SMB 1.0 Network Share and connect to that as @rasteri did with his #WeeCee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1E2vjpcRo&t=5m50s

@esm Amd I guess building something like the #WeeCee that @rasteri did isn't feasible...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI