Setting up your MiSTer FPGA for DOS Gaming - AO486 Core

Here is a video to setup the AO486 core for MiSTer. I will guide you through preparing the AO486 core, installing DOS and configuring DOS.

Fixing EMS in DOS: Replace the EMM386.exe lines in config.sys with this: device=c:\dos\emm386.exe 4096 RAM FRAME=e000 d=256 x=a000-c7ff i=c800-efff Source: https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=37277

Sound Blaster Settings SET BLASTER text for autoexec.bat: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 T6 Game Settings MIDI Sound Blaster: Port 220 MIDI Adlib: Port 388 Digital Audio: Sound Blaster or Sound blaster 16 Port: 220 IRQ: 5 DMA: 1 High/16 bit DMA: 5

Other links: AO486 Github Page:(https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer)

Required files and software: AO486 boot roms:(https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer/tree/master/releases)

misterfs.exe:(https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer/tree/master/releases/drv) Microsoft mouse DOS driver(Download MOUSE820.ZIP):(https://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html) MS-DOS Starter Pack from Phil's Computer Lab(https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ms-dos-starter-pack.html)

AOMEI Partition Assistant: (https://www.diskpart.com/free-partition-manager.html)

Shareware CD collection(optional):(https://archive.org/details/GAMEPACK2)

Other videos on how to get files onto AO486 Floppy images: (https://youtu.be/h1eOd-bsg2E) VHD's: (https://youtu.be/inG-I2YIUEI) MisterFS: https://youtu.be/Q2BfBEmRakk)

Music from games used: Descent Might & Magic IV

Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:27 Requirements 3:17 Creating Virtual Hard Disks 7:59 Installing DOS 6.22 11:14 Configure DOS with MS-DOS Start Pack 14:16 Fixing EMS 17:35 Configuring Sound 22:02 Transferring your own games using misterfs.exe 26:16 Using CD ISO's 28:06 Testing games 30:31 Final Thoughts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqGTil-N38