Difference between revisions of "PC-98"

From ReactOS Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
m (Add better quality video link.)
Line 7: Line 7:
  
 
== Hardware ==
 
== Hardware ==
The PC-9800 series use a custom hardware bus (C-bus) and a firmware that is completely different from a Standard PC BIOS (later models do use PCI), so a new [[HAL]] should be created.
+
The PC-9800 series use a custom hardware C-bus (later models do use PCI) and a firmware that is completely different from a Standard PC BIOS, so a new [[HAL]] should be created.
  
 
In Windows 2000 there are four known HALs for this platform:
 
In Windows 2000 there are four known HALs for this platform:
Line 29: Line 29:
  
 
== See Also ==
 
== See Also ==
 +
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy-M1grG8jg Windows 2000 booting on NEC Lavie PC-9821 Nr15 (Pentium, 96 MB RAM)]
 +
* [https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm9688577 Windows 2000 booting on NEC PC-9821 RvII26 (SSD, 640 MB RAM)]
 
* [https://sites.google.com/site/np21win Neko Project 21/W (japanese)]
 
* [https://sites.google.com/site/np21win Neko Project 21/W (japanese)]
 
* [https://sites.google.com/site/np21win/setup/win2000 Neko Project 21/W - Windows 2000 installation guide (japanese)]
 
* [https://sites.google.com/site/np21win/setup/win2000 Neko Project 21/W - Windows 2000 installation guide (japanese)]

Revision as of 13:10, 11 October 2019

The NEC PC-9800 series are 16/32-bit computers from NEC Corporation. It marked a shift away from the Z80-based PC-88 to the x86 architecture. Just like their predecessor series, they were known for their unique sound hardware by YAMAHA, and games kept the systems popular. They were likely never released outside Japan in the series lifespan, except for the APC III.

Status

ReactOS is not ported to PC-9800 series yet and here are some rough estimations if you want to port it.

You can run ReactOS only on i586 class CPUs and above, so that means you can run it on any of the models with a Pentium CPU. Keep in mind ReactOS requires at least 64 MB of RAM. It's recommended to use NEC PC-9821Ra43 with a Celeron CPU @ 433 MHz which is the last model in the series.

Hardware

The PC-9800 series use a custom hardware C-bus (later models do use PCI) and a firmware that is completely different from a Standard PC BIOS, so a new HAL should be created.

In Windows 2000 there are four known HALs for this platform:

File Name HAL Name
hal98up.dll PC-9800 System Clock 10MHz
hal98tmr.dll PC-9800 System Clock 10MHz (support 2nd Timer)
hal98mp.dll NEC PC-9800 MPS HAL
hal98apc.dll NEC PC-9800 APIC HAL

PC-9800 series hard disks are usually formatted with FAT12, but they use 1024 bytes per sector as opposed to the PC's 512.

Emulation

Neko Project 21/W is a NEC PC-9821 series emulator which can run Windows 2000. It potentially can be used for ReactOS PC-98 port development and testing.

See Also

ReactOS ports‎
In active development Intel IA-32 (x86) | AMD64 (x64)
In slow development ARM64 (aarch64) | ARM32 (armv7) | NEC PC-98 (x86) | OG Xbox (x86)
Unmaintained OLPC (x86)
Missing ports that Windows has Intel IA-64 (Itanium) | IBM PS/2 MCA (x86) | SGI 320/540 (x86) | DEC Alpha (axp) | MIPS | PowerPC (ppc)
Ideas for new ports Apple TV 1st Gen (x86) | FM Towns (x86) | PlayStation 4 (x64) | Intel SFI (x86)