Run win7. NTVDM is fucked more and more with each update to be able to
run a BBS.

Drivers aren't available for my hardware and I don't have enough cores for

I gave up. Windows 11 with NTVDMx64 was totally unusable for me. I gave u on my new PCs (what a waste of money...) and went back to the laptop with a win11 host and a win10 32 bit guest VM. It works pretty well, except for some occasional VM shenanigans.

I gave up. Windows 11 with NTVDMx64 was totally unusable for me. I gave
u
on my new PCs (what a waste of money...) and went back to the laptop with
a win11 host and a win10 32 bit guest VM. It works pretty well, except
for some occasional VM shenanigans.

I run the BBS on an old Dell Optiplex I grabbed from ebay for like $40.00

I run the BBS on an old Dell Optiplex I grabbed from ebay for like $40

Yeah, I'm currently running my BBS on a Dell workstation I bought from eBay You can find some pretty good deals there.

Thats why I don't understand all of the people going I can't run this on my machine, on a vm, under win11, etc. Spend $40 for your hobby and BOOM .. everything works with the OS that is close enough to what it was supposed to be run on.

Thats why I don't understand all of the people going I can't run this on
my machine, on a vm, under win11, etc. Spend $40 for your hobby and BOOM
.. everything works with the OS that is close enough to what it was
supposed to be run on.

I live in a studio apt. My main PC and laptop take up too much room. I have to do this on mini-PCs.

I live in a studio apt. My main PC and laptop take up too much room. I ha to do this on mini-PCs.

I run the BBS on an old Dell Optiplex I grabbed from ebay for

like

$40.00

OS/2 would be juicy.

I live in a studio apt. My main PC and laptop take up too much room. I
have to do this on mini-PCs.

Still, I've seen some fairly inexpensive mini PCs. There's this one for instance, which is a refurbished one for $199:

like a champ. Windows 10 64-bit.

NTVDMx64 works great for me, for the record, circling back to the original topic.

Yeah, from what I've heard, it sounds like NTVDMx64 can be installed on Windows 10 without too much fuss, but I think it has trouble on Windows 11. I have Windows 11 and have tried installing it myself and ran into

Ok, to be able to do that and not rely on a VM, I've ordered a HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF Windows 10 PC (Intel Core i5 / 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD) i5-7500. It should fit nicely under my printer. I just don't like the idea of the majorly increased power consumption driving up my power bill compared to an N100. At leastl this old hardware shouldn't have any problems with ntvdm...

should fit nicely under my printer. I just don't like the idea of the majorly increased power consumption driving up my power bill compared to an N100. At leastl this old hardware shouldn't have any problems with ntvdm...