i can think of several reasons actually

the only excuse i wanna hear is that you wanna do writing and writing only lmfao

@EeveeEuphoria

to get a decent experience you pretty much have to run 30+ year old hardware because otherwise you are at the mercy of how good your bios emulation is

and install inoffical patches because your pc has more than 2GB of memory which himem.sys detects as -2GB of memory

even then you get what

shitty vga emulation that is distorted on an lcd screen and no sound because computers don’t have beepers anymore and installing other sound cards is not an option

@charlotte i mean, to be fair, freeDOS

@EeveeEuphoria yeah i guess that fixes some but not all issues

i doubt that it somehow tricks your HDA chipset into behaving just like a soundblaster or beeper, or that it makes your monitor display VGA resolutions without stretching them