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The weeCee: A Tiny New MS-DOS & Windows Gaming PC!

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Clint Basinger reviews and demonstrates the weeCee, a tiny modern reproduction of an x86 PC capable of running MS-DOS and Windows 98.

Checking out the wee little weeCee! It's a mini PC capable of running MS-DOS and Windows off a MicroSD card that plays well with tons of classic PC games and software, boasting Sound Blaster Pro and Wave Blaster/GM compatibility, along with SXGA 32-bit color graphics with VGA out. Awesome stuff, so let's try it out with some DOS and Windows 98 games! ● Pertinent weeCee and TheRasteri links: youtube.com/watch?v=aJEp4ZUG7BI youtube.com/watch?v=2P1E2vjpcRo circuitmaker.com/Projects/Details/rasteri/weeCee ● LGR links: patreon.com/LazyGameReviews twitter.com/LazyGameReviews facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Background music licensed from: epidemicsound.com #LGR #Retro #Computer

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What people say. Recommended as a great modern hardware solution for playing classic DOS games on real hardware without troubleshooting vintage PCs.

Sean-Deron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Comprehensive list of modern reproductions of vintage sound cards”

…em and you can feel it while playing. I am playing System Shock 1 right now and you can see all the different experiments that went into the game (some good and some bad). ---- Another cool device to check is the WeeCee 1. If you want to play games on real hardware but don't feel like collecting (and troubleshooting) old hardware. 0 link 1 link to this video…
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psychphysicon Hacker News • Mentions

On “TinyLLama – A Tiny x86 Retrocomputer”

Love it. There's a decent number of these still available for commercial applications. I'll have to dig it out but there was a guy who got a game running on a dosboard used in a piece commercial kitchen hardware0-1. And even "gaming" machines2. I bet LGR on YouTube would love it. 0 link 1 link 2 link to this video
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marttton Hacker News • Mentions

On “The (Almost) Definitive 486DX/50 Article”

Sure, there are emulators, but I was thinking of a native system. Emulators seem to work great, but I try to avoid several layers of abstractions. Also, feeling nostalgic about how a native FreeDOS system boots in literally 2 seconds (on a modest laptop), I guess. Someone built this: link And this, the weeCee; the price point estimated in the comments is around $600, though: link to this video A third one, with lots of diy involved: link It is interesting nonetheless that really-low-spec SBCs have not gone into the masses (thus resulting in dirt-cheap prices) the way the RPis have. It is still a nice dream to see this happening with the current rise of retrocomputing.
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