Sunday, February 12, 2023

Sperry HT - idea

One of the big problems that I have with my FreeDOS system is lack of Sound Blaster support.  I have a Sound Blaster card for the machine, but DOS won't recognize it.  And DOS certainly won't work with the built in sound.

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B hanging around from a failed project.

So my idea is this:
Clear out the Sperry HT box.
Use the Raspberry PI 4B and RetroPi to run DOSBox.

Panel Mount USB A to Pi for the keyboard.
Panel Mount USB C to the Pi for power.
Panel Mount HDMI to where the video card used to be for video.
I can even pull the 3.5" floppy drive from the FreeDOS machine and mount it in the case.

I might be able to get the power button merged in to this, but we'll see.

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