Jump to 20:39 to skip past all my blathering. You're welcome.

How spicy would you like your chicken? I'm Too Young To Die Hey, Not Too Rough Hurt Me Plenty Ultra-Violence Nightmare!

"I want to get this to be a softmod." Ahh so you want this to become the new tradition when fast food employees know they are about to be fired: start playing doom on the order screens, get fired, walk away with the manager trying to figure out how to get the system back to normal

The version string at 8:28 reveals some guy named Andrew compiled the BIOS on his MacBook Pro back in 2015. The BSOD error 0x7B means a missing storage driver. (Yes, I too wonder why I remember BSOD stopcodes.)

This is a very important accomplishment to society.

I have ZERO time to fool with all this stuff. That's why I just ordered TWO of them. Thank you very much. #thisdoesnotcompute

I'm a contractor that installs these things all the time, so this is good info to have! These things communicate serially via RJ-12 connections with controller PCs. I think we need to see if we can get a network going for some Quake action!

Y'know, I kept thinkin', "it would be perfect for runnin' BurgerTime!" :D

The fact that someone was able to get Windows XP running on one of these OAsys iPAD devices is impressive

As a starbucks barista who uses one of these everyday, this is giving me some ideas for slow days...

SeaBIOS is very commonly used with open source virtualisation platforms like KVM, Xen etc. for the VMs' BIOSes

In the tweet thread the guy mentions that he used nlite to slipstream the drivers into a custom xp image so that's likely the step you're missing

My order for your restaurant is... RIP AND TEAR

I knew it! I thoroughly enjoyed this 😁

I spent the first 20 minutes of the video basically yelling at the screen "WHY DOESN'T HE JUST RUN DOOM FROM DOS"

Boss: "Where's the order of fries at?" Cook: "What order of fries?" Boss: "Haven't you been paying attention to the screen?!" The screen:

SeaBIOS means that most likely there is running a coreboot underneath. Since coreboot and SeaBIOS is licensed under GPL, Select Electronics should provide source files somewhere. If don't just remind them that they have to do that. With the source code you can change the SeaBIOS Settings and re flash it with Linux and the Software Flashrom.

You can get a USB sound adapter; I think there's a way to get those working under DOS but don't quote me...

Considering it's like a Pentium equivalent, I'm not surprised that it can run Doom. Back when I was a teen, I remember playing Doom II on one of the Compaq DeskPro 486 at my father's workplace. IIRC it had a 50 MHz 80486 CPU, 2 MB of RAM, and most likely a minimalistic integrated graphics chip :)

SeaBIOS is the default BIOS QEMU uses for x86 and x86_64 emulation and also the most common option for Coreboot payloads, which this device also uses.

That X-DOS thing got me mightily curious. I worked on a team that developed a MS-DOS clone between 1987 and 1989 and it was eventually sold to a Korean company. Could it be...?

SeaBIOS has no real configuration screen. You configure it on compile time. There is some option to change boot order though, but has to be compiled in.

I’m surprised to not see as many comments as I would have expected about the mysterious BANANA.

You went a lot farther with this than I thought you would.

Fine! It can run Doom. Checked! Next on the list: can it run Quake? 😜

Kitchen worker here, yeah they are called bump bars and what you said was completely correct, the output(s) the bar would be connected too would be partitioned into at least in my case, 8 different sections with 1 order per section, with the buttons 1 through 8 corresponding to a particular area of the screen. So pressing 5 and Bump/Clear would clear the number 5 area on the order screen.

Why is this episode so much fun ? I am geeking out.

You continue to impress, Colin! Thanks for great work for us to enjoy,

This was a great watch! Thank you for your dedication!

The boot order is almost certainly set up that way so a tech can boot diagnostic or recovery software off a USB stick without having to mess around with a keyboard. I bet there are USB sticks that will do a clean install of a new OS and POS software in case the internal storage gets corrupted. I also wouldn't be surprised if the deleted USB port was spec'd by the original customer, possibly to stop employees from using it to charge their phones.

I am so surprised you didn't try ME. It might have solved the PnP issue since it's 98 SE under the hood with a lot more updates. Also, could have tried Windows 2000 as well 😊 Awesome video nonetheless!

Bro, I always get excited when I see your videos

You could have tried a lightweight distro of Linux. I know it wouldn't have been able to run the PC version of Doom but would have potentially given you a fully functional installation with no missing drivers.

Can it run Planet X-3?

Just hook up an arduino or something and copy off the contents of the SPI before you mess around with it so you can always recover it.

You know I love crazy stuff like this. Brings a smile to my face

I was wondering just about it. Well, Colin, you are awesome!

What an amazing product. Someone made a Mini Dos gaming PC based on this DM&P chip but it's a build your own device so you can essentially get a mini modern dos PC. I'm planning on doing that.

Back when slackware linux first came out, the doom demo was always available to install, so it doesn't use that much memory, granted if you had a soundcard and the creatives were just coming out it had better sound, but brings back memories

I'm eagerly awaiting an update for this. I just have to see more!

One time at Starbucks, one of these stopped showing orders and became interested as I had trouble finding information about them for troubleshooting. So glad for this new information! Very Cool!

They use those at the local restaurant to me called THY FLESH CONSUMED

From one geek to another I love stuff like this!

I enjoyed the blathering, I'm in the UK so not seen these before, but intrigued yes, great video.

Waitress: What can I get you this evening sir? Me: IDKFA

TheRasteri has a video where he made a mini DOS machine using a PC/104 industrial PC board. The nice thing is it has a slot to accept the homespun sound card he build for it. The PC/104 board he'd selected uses a similar Vortex CPU.

This is the content I wake up for in the morning.

While most of the technical discussion was above me, I really enjoyed this video. Kudos for getting Doom to run. As for the lack of a sound card, I had my first PC for several years before I bought a used AdLib card, so I was well used to PC speaker sounds.

Writing to that flash chip is probably easier than you think it is. Get a TL866 programmer and a SOIC-8/SOP-8 test clip, and you can literally clip it directly to the chip and read/write it from a PC. That exact chip you showed at 9:23 is compatible with it. EDIT: Actually, I paused it at the part where you showed the chip to write this comment, and hadn't watched past it. I guess you already know it's even easier than that, since the virtual floppy drive is writable from software and you can boot from removable media.

OMG I asked for this in a comment in your last video! Can't believe you ACTUALLY did it. Thank you!

so interesting! would've never guessed these devices has such a SOC

Thanks for this ! Subbed because of it

Got this video recommended over a video from the 8-bit Guy. Thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you! 😊

Make a floppy image of the other unit , bring it to your unit and restore. That's what I'd do :)

You have it right about the use case for the bump bar. Those orders are timed and recorded on the back of house server for analytics later to determine any bottlenecks in the kitchen. so making an order and clearing it in time is important.

I like how he said he wont be installing custom windows in the previous video and then...Doom challenge; you have a new subscriber, nothing makes my day like watching another device being Doomed!

Considering that device has a rough equivalent to a Pentium 200mhz you should be able to run Quake on it without too much trouble. Doom ran quite well on most 486 based PC's (and decent on a fast 386 based system!) back in the day so anything with a Pentium or faster chip should easily run it like a champ!

You should be able to mount the flash drive as direct access in virtual box and install from your XP ISO with slip streamed drivers. Or just install standard XP and install the drivers in virtual box and it should boot. I’ve messed around with a lot of these weird SOCs and that method seems to always work

I used to work at a pizza place that used the "Bump" and "Recall" version of the bar you showed a pic of. While we had Dell PCs running Win7 w/ touch screens to take orders, I had always assumed the bump bars we had on the make table and cut table were just "dumb terminals" that depended on the server in the office for all functions(especially since the bars would reboot any time the server went down). I knew that the bars had a basic bios since it would show that when the server rebooted or when you bumped the bar too aggressively(because the port where the power supply plugged in was looser than a $5 hooker), but I had no idea it had an actual CPU inside. Interesting video!

As someone in the process of re-skilling into tech from the kitchen life, this brought me immense gratification and satisfaction.

@9:00 I seem to remember some older computers used to have bios that ran off a drive or floppy, maybe there is a bios that can be ran like an OS that will change hardware settings?

Managed to track down a zip file with the x-dos 5 files (Website was pcorner so others can track it down to). Wasn't a bootable floppy image though, but it was a zip file that could be used. I inserted the folder inside a drive image in a virtual machine. Ran the install command, and this allowed me to install x-dos to a floppy image. Now i got the full thing, funky colors included. Then i used a image file editor to replace the files on the floppy with the ones from the zip file and boom! Official working install floppy :D Now i can very easily install this in my virtual PC's, although it seems extremely picky with harddrive booting and i have only gotten it to work with floppy disks so far with harddisk access flatout failing. Perhaps this doesn't support large disks?

We used these when I worked at a Pizza Hut years ago. We had Bump/Recall units at the make-table and a different unit on the cut-table that had options to scroll one-by-one or page-by-page.

Seeing Compris brought me back to my NCR helpdesk days. Didn't really like the job but it more than paid for rent, college, car mods, and put food on the table.

I bet that could run Alpine Linux, or even Arch (btw).

hold up? if you can wright to that Virtual Floppy? cant you just format it and make it bootable with DOS 6.22?

Love this idea, I clean kitchen hoods and exhaust systems for a living, would be great to play some doom at work.

This was great. 10/10.

Some xp embedded drivers are on dmps' old website hasnt been updated for a long time tho

I'm waiting for Foone to find that out, they'll be proud 😆

Awesome video, I loved it!

Just saw this video and glad I did! Regarding the OS, it looks like one of those stripped down with very superficial modifications to MS-DOS that contains just a few changes to text and a few routines to make the DOS experience a bit more interesting. I distinctly remember that upgraded and coloured DIR function being applied to DOS 5.0 PCs among the techie crowd in the early 90s along with VESA framebuffers to enhance game performance and advanced memory managers that could be simply added to the autoexec.bat and/or command.com config files. I actually did something very similar to my Amiga workbench before jumping to PCs when I was a teenager, making a custom workbench I called 'RatBench' that stripped out all unnecessary processes to allow more free RAM and room on the floppy disc to add pirating and wardialing software, a 'greets' listing on bootup and added a randomized copper list to give a multicoloured background to the Amiga's GUI years before Windows 3.0 did the same (and more) for PCs. I distributed this among friends and fellow geeks, and was amazed to find it floating around still years after the Amiga was dead in North America. I wonder how this guy who gussied up MS-DOS would feel if he saw this video? Since someone either jacked this version of DOS out of the black holes of DOS piracy or possibly actually licenced it for this Point of Sale terminal programmer, his response could go either way. ;-)

if the device has post and bios, it runs doom. yes a calculator has bios

Nice! But I'm surprised you didn't try any kind of Linux. We all know that Linux can run on anything.

Instant sub. Great work!

Really enjoyable video

If the thing has parallel like it does serial, could you wire an OPL2LPT?

Try booting an older Linux kernel with Loadlin!

I grew up with these Doom pc speaker sounds, super nostalgic for me

Very well done.

If it has a cpu It has to run doom

23:00 if you want to see doom and avoid the long winded introduction

I've installed win98 on a Grocery register from the mid 80' It had a custom 100 button keyboard with pictures of produce, which had its own cutom ISA board to register keypresses, it was a 286 PC internally and it was somewhat funky to run games on it!

40 bucks? Looks affor....*looks at postage to Germany* 41frigging Dollars to get this over here?!? No thanks. :(

Yes, the bump bar. I used to do IT gig work, and was surprised to see it boot up DOS

Really interesting, thanks!

There's actually an ISA port on the chip. That would make the 86duino SoM an ideal basis for some retro project.

I'm proud to say that when you highlighted Starbuck, my mind went to BSG

Well you have single handedly increased the resale value of those things.

Most definitely My Hat Off to this one!! The restaurant chef systam can run Win98 and play Doom!!

Good job!

There is actually a pc speaker driver that on my 1996 era Toshiba laptop which didnot have a sound card, *did* in fact provide music support for Win 95 and worked for Doom.And, there was a Linux kernel driver for pc speaker support that worked well as well. In that it was better than nothing type of *worked well*

Embedded retail systems are tricky. I've done refurb upgrades to grocery store self-checkout, which used to be Win 98 then XP. I didn't run doom on it but I was able to put jpegs in the display, before continuing what I ws supposed to be doing and upgrading the OS. Heh, still have the install CDs, with 20+ installations I made sure I had at least 3 copies so I could stack my installs. Good paycheck after a month of that. I note that all my upgrades from then have been replaced, missed out on that installation job.

This was a real cliffhanger..😮

A forum about the sbc using the same chip says that windows xp sp2 will always blue screen while installing, but apparently sp3 will install just fine. The driver pack for it might also work but not sure that it uses the same vga chipset. Hope this helps!

Oh yes I knew you would get this chance!

First thing that comes to mind seeing this (and when i saw it back when i use to work in restaurants) is making it into a Shadowrun Decker Board, replacing the guts with an arduino

This is epic.

These were over the fryer at a huddle house I worked at many years ago, used as nothing more than a timer.

Also if you look very carefully at the DMP website, you'll find in their archive a programming reference that shows how to access the GPIO from DOS. Of course somebody would have to know C or assembly, but the example looks pretty simple. There might even be a utility in there (can't remember). Somebody could then use FASM to make a TSR that converts those into keystrokes. That part I don't know how to do, but it's possible.