Upcycle your old laptop as a DOSBox gaming PC

Most of us have an old laptop or three lying around gathering dust. Don't scrap them! Upcycle them.

In this video I'll show you how to turn a very low powered, 900MHz, 2009, netbook into a top of the range DOS gaming PC. We'll use DOSBox running on top of a lite version of Linux to give full speed emulation and full sound - something I couldn't get with a pure DOS approach in the previous video.

Play all the classic games such as Doom, Lemmings, Wing Commander, Duke Nukem and all the rest and bring your old hardware back to life.

Make sure to check out my project page for all the code and links used in this video.
https://bytesnbits.co.uk/dosbox-lapto...

0:00 Introduction
0:29 My EeePC
2:29 DOSBox
4:00 Install Lubuntu Linux
7:23 Preparing Linux
9:00 Install DOSBox using snapd
10:23 Running DOSBox from the command line
11:27 Getting DOS games
13:10 Creating and attaching your games drive to DOSBox
15:21 Starting a game
17:00 Creating a desktop shortcut for DOSBox
19:07 Configuring DOSBox to auto mount games drive, go fullscreen and fix keyboard mapping
23:08 Conclusions

Previous laptop upcycle videos

Pure DOS based PC
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Development PC
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DOSBox
https://www.dosbox.com/

Lubuntu
https://lubuntu.net/

AbandonwareDos
https://abandonwaredos.com/