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Strange...but I'm curious to try

https://muellers-software.org/mcl/

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BologneChe wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:02 pm

Strange...but I'm curious to try

https://muellers-software.org/mcl/

Well you know what's amazing. I can run KLV-spectr or KLV-airedale with Xfce and all the bells and whistles, running @mikewalsh portables on a Toshiba netbook with, count -em, 1 Celeron 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of ram, and it's does just fine. Of course watching videos taxes the resources, but it works. LibreOffice, browsers, all of that stuff. KLV-spectr is particulary snappy on that machine.

But it might be fun to try Crappy Linux.

What might be even more fun is to do a first rib of it and make it a Kennel Linux. KLC, Kennel Linux Crappy!

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BologneChe wrote: Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:02 pm

Strange...but I'm curious to try

https://muellers-software.org/mcl/

Intel 486 66 MHz with 4 MB of RAM
An Amiga module player
Graphical and text based games
Emulators for ZX Spectrum, Apple II, Gameboy, NES and Master System
A CPM emulator

It's good🐾

The screenshots were taken directly by photographing the monitor, and not in Qemu - this is not very good. Well okay. Maybe there is ONLY 486 66 MHz available.

A sense of humor is present, also good. How was it? "100% Biodegradable bash scripts":
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Minki here,

Ive been working on this project since over a year now and im releasing version 1.3 soon. The update will bring a new kernel, a better boot loader and lots of driver support.
The main features will be the ability to use USB and SATA devices as the boot media, a better IRC client and a web server port.

I am also working on making an installation CD that can be used to set up the system without external tools / machines.

Let me know if you need any other features added to the system :thumbup2:

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The screenshots were taken directly by photographing the monitor, and not in Qemu - this is not very good.

Well, I have to show that it works on real hardware somehow, right?
Anyone can make a linux that works on a "486" in qemu by just setting -cpu to 486 but then enabling all the fancy things like FPU and such with arguments.
If you run it on a real 486 then you cant cheat like that ;)

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MinkiTheAvali wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:09 pm

The screenshots were taken directly by photographing the monitor, and not in Qemu - this is not very good.

Well, I have to show that it works on real hardware somehow, right?
Anyone can make a linux that works on a "486" in qemu by just setting -cpu to 486 but then enabling all the fancy things like FPU and such with arguments.
If you run it on a real 486 then you cant cheat like that ;)

Okay, okay, it's accepted ;) 🐧 This is a satisfactory explanation.

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Where we are going we dont need an init system.

@MinkiTheAvali For the sake of interest. Did I understand correctly that this is a parody of "Back to the Future" ;) ? When Doc says that where they're going, there's no need for roads.

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Grey wrote: Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:42 pm

For the sake of interest. Did I understand correctly that this is a parody of "Back to the Future" ;) ? When Doc says that where they're going, there's no need for roads.

Yes, it is referring to that scene! Great movie, one of my favourites ;)

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