PC Build help... Again

[Sanji Himura]

I have successfully navigated the PC market to buy my current rig. Now I turn to you people to help me actually build my first rig. There is a catch to all of this.

The new rig must run DOS, or a variant thereof.

I have an estimated budget of $700, but I can push it to $850 before taxes, so have at it.

 

[Dennisch]

Ehm. You clicked one subforum too high. Or do you want our opinions and should we discuss it?

 

[Sanji Himura]

I have a 40" TV displaying at 1080p. I am roughly 10' away seeing this at 125% magnification. The font still displays too small.

Mods, can you move it please to the correct forum?

Thanks!

 

[DQuaN]

Run DOS and your budget is $700?! Try $7!

 

[dice1998]

Dude, buy IBM everything.

 

[DG_Silva]

You could try using DOSBOX if you were wanting to use a DOS program.

 

[Siggers]

The new rig must run DOS, or a variant thereof.

If you want it to run DOS so that you can play old 1980s/90s games, then you need to research into what @DG_Silva suggested. I am not sure if I can be elaborating further as technically its going into emulation territory. But the bottom line is you can use it to run DOS on any computer.

You should buy the best highest spec most up to date computer you can afford. DOS no longer comes as standard with any new computer operating system and hasn't done for many many years now. If you want DOS for reasons other than playing older games then you still get the command line interface with all popular operating systems which should fulfil all your needs.

 

[BobK]

If dosbox won't do the job, then look into Freedos. Both are legal alternatives.

You could also track down a legitimate copy of MS-DOS, but you'd almost certainly need a floppy to boot it up. And therein may lay the real problem.

Which gets me to thinking -- wonder how fast Freedos will run on my new 4GHz 32GB system...