maple classic™ 
is there any modern-ish linux that runs on a pentium 100mhz
@squirrel Puppy Linux has potential for that: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49618
@lostnbronx 73mb ram gets a "maybe install more ram"? 😂 this toshiba is maxed out at 40mb..
@squirrel Yeah, it would be a little tough, but with tweaking, you might be able to put a usable version of Linux on there. I like Puppy. It was my first encounter with Linux!
@lostnbronx @squirrel I tend to be able to get a usable light distro on older machines, it's using the browsers that seem to sucks.
But a 100 mghtz machine should be put to rest... IMHO
@randynose @lostnbronx no, it's a machine with sb16 dedicated for dos games. i asked about putting Linux on it merely as a curiosity
@squirrel @lostnbronx
I've had really good luck with Dos Box for those kind of games.
If you want to play around with Puppy Linux, it's easy to run of a thumb drive, and you can boot into it on other machines.
@randynose @lostnbronx yeah dosbox works decently well with few exceptions, but i still prefer the original opl3 sound, especially when composing for adlib and such.
the pentium laptop i have predates usb so i can't use thumb drives.
@squirrel @lostnbronx
No pcmcia slots?
@randynose @lostnbronx fitted with network card
@squirrel @randynose Is there an Ethernet port on it, or only a phone jack? What if you set it up as a dumb terminal, running the OS of another machine? It has, like, even less power than most dumb kiosk machines now, right? Am I misremembering, or wasn't there once a way to run an OS remotely, and the only thing the local machine did (or was able to do) was call it up and run the OS from there? It was slow, but it supposedly worked.
@lostnbronx @squirrel
David, SSH into it? Or something else?
But if he's just running old games, perhaps leaving it alone would be best. We've been eliminating machines "better" than this at work.
@randynose @squirrel (Randy, it's she/her according to her profile.) I think the very point here is to NOT junk the machine, but to get the original DOS gaming experience on a box from the era. It really sounds like a fun challenge!
@lostnbronx @randynose it's not a challenge, the machine is already set up for that
@lostnbronx @randynose the biggest appeal of this machine is it has actual sb16 compatible hardware so no opl3 emulation
@squirrel Forgive my ignorance, but is that primarily a consideration for sound, graphics, performance, or a combination of things?
The Sound Blaster 16 bit was pretty much the Sound Standard for many of the MS DOS games.
There's even a 60 clip showing some of the sound differences between opl3 emulation and not being emulated. - I guess not being emulated is better. - But IMHO for most games, I don't know if I'd have known the difference. But then, I didn't game that much. I ran the BBS during those times.
@squirrel @randynose Sounds like a lot of fun. I was never really a DOS gamer, but some of them are amazing.