Re: ZVG firmware / the future of ZVG

I'll leave all this to you guys, I think, as I'm not really up on what the
arcade community wants in terms of software or anything. I just want to be
able to send commands to the darn thing from my laptop :P

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Chuck <chuck@localsurfer.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am not an expert on any of this, but isn't DOS an archaic OS? Wouldn't
> it be smarter to go forward in a slimmed down version of Linux? Perhaps
> even an embedded system? Linux can be very small and very effective from
> what I do know about it.
>
> Shouldn't this become a ground up build to make things as forward thinking
> and simple as possible? Longevity may be a hard thing to predict, but it
> should be considered.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 11:03 AM, Barry Shilmover wrote:
>
> > IMHO, the bigger issue is the software, not the hardware.
> >
> > I have mine running in DOS and it runs great.
> >
> > Loads quickly, I can turn it off without any corruption to the OS.
> >
> > Up and in the menu in less than 15 seconds.
> >
> > B
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org [mailto:
> owner-vectorlist@vectorlist.org] On Behalf Of Al Warner
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:04 AM
> > To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> > Subject: Re: VECTOR: ZVG firmware / the future of ZVG
> >
> > To get back on target, I think the proper answer to the future of a new
> ZVG would be to come up with modern hardware and software. The current
> solution is designed around a dead platform from both sides.
> >
> > My opinion is, if you have existing hardware, there are ways to make it
> work. The board has obsolete parts on it so it's future isn't in
> recreating it as-is, but in starting over.
> >
> > YMMV
> >
> > -Al-
> >
> > On 4/17/2012 7:32 AM, Bryan McCraw wrote:
> >> Windows Zektor is still a work in progress I guess..
> >>
> >> http://www.radiantbacon.com/free-bacon
> >>
> >> Although it has been more than a year since an update, he mentioned in
> >> February of this year he was going to work on it again..
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