I've been having a ton of fun with my ASUS Terminator P4 (and I anticipate having a lot of fun with my Terminator K7 as well)!

I've done a variety of things in the past few days, including installing NetBSD and FreeDOS on some of my hard drives to see what they're like on hardware such as this. The answer? Pretty good!

I first installed FreeDOS, which installed just fine. It comes with mouse drivers out of the box and works fine with USB mice and keyboards. It doesn't have support for the AC'97 sound hardware in the machine, understandably so. I could easily remedy this by getting something like a COVOX Speech Thing/other parallel port sound device, or getting a PCI sound card that has DOS drivers.

Next up I installed NetBSD. This was a bit more difficult, in all honesty. I wasn't expecting the OS to have so much trouble with USB devices, but it seems to completely reject the SiS chipset's USB and will hang on boot or present other strange behaviors when it's used.

Eventually though, I was able to get it installed and, other than the lack of USB and sound, it works beautifully, and I know that, once I can migrate this to a bigger disk, it'd make for a wonderful machine to have on hand.

I've been dabbling in short form content, and here's a little YouTube Short I made on my experience with FreeDOS on this machine:

I also took the opportunity to have fun with some of the weird behaviors that NetBSD was showing while trying to boot from USB:

I'll have a full video in the next week or so about installing NetBSD on the system, and I can't wait to do more with both my ASUS systems :)

Random musing - if you had to choose one game console generation to be limited to hardware-wise, what would it be? (You’re not limited in terms of software so long as it runs on the hardware of a given generation, by way of emulation or other means)

Pls rb for larger sample size (and give explanations for your choice if u want!!)

I’m so excited to get a PSU for my Super Famicom hopefully sooner rather than later :3

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Hello! I'm Europa, and welcome to my blog (playfully named as such as a reference to my personal website)

I'm a 22 year old trans girl from the heart of the midwest who loves retro tech, photography, music production, writing, mapping/cartography.

Update; 2024/10/19: I now also maintain @sunos-official, so if you like old computers, old unix, or anything of that nature, be sure to check it out!

As for content creation endeavors, I'm a (very scuffed) vtuber who can't quite get her shit together when it comes to streaming, and I also release music and make videos on old tech I like. I'm also working on a novel and hope to publish it.

I also collect computers with a heavy preference toward Unix workstations, Commodores, Macs, and ThinkPads. Below are some of my proudest collection pieces, either because of sentimental value or simply because I think they're really neat machines

I also will link to some various places you can find my other stuff, should you wish to visit me there