Well, I have been wanting to participate in the DOS fun and games this week, but on account of a wicked backache the last few days I have not been up for much until today.

I did try to pull some old DOS files off of some ancient hard drives, but it turns out these drives are so old I cannot read from them with a USB/IDE adapter. So, I tried installing the in my Pentium MMX, only the OS I have on that machine isn't booting (and I had to use an old CRT monitor because it has a built in VGA cable and my VGA cable is tied up elsewhere at the moment, but this monitor starts scrolling when I get past the POST screen, so it's really hard to use. And apparently, I cannot just boot off a CD drive because the IDE channel doesn't seem to like having a hard drive AND a CD drive on it (even if the HDD is jumpered to master and the CD drive to slave). So I give up on that front for now.

(The other "channel" of IDE connectivity is taken up by the pair of old HDD drives, so I can't put the CD drive there. The evidence seems to point to those drives functioning together as a single drive).

Also, it seems like OpenBSD doesn't like my USB Floppy drive, so getting data off the floppy's I do have may not be so easy.

My plan for tomorrow is, when the Wii to HDMI adapter arrives, to either:
1. Install Dosbox on the Wii.
2. Install Linux on the Wii and - if that works - install Dosbox-x on top of that and configure it to load that all up on boot.

If I can do the latter, maybe I can get some basic network access in DOS - which I understand is not available in the "standard" Wii DOSBox.

If I can get either option working, then it will be on to finding free/freeware software to run to on it, as an well as to put my Commander Keen collection onto it.