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This guy put a regular (ok soviet clone) 8088 in his Book v2 and it booted up and worked with some software, but it did appear to crash when he ran checkit and other software so that's probably caused by the VGA BIOS incompatibility you're talking about.

I wasn't aware that the VGA BIOS they're using required a V20, sorry to mislead. That card would enable you to use an Intel 8088 using CGA I suppose if you could get your hands on one. Yes the two ASICs are most likely the same as the ones used on the Book 8088 v1 and the standalone CGA card.

I don't have an IBM 5150 but yes, people have definitely gotten DOS 6.x working on a 5150 using a CF Card and XT-IDE. Easiest way to install is to load the CF Card up in VirtualBox, install DOS 6.22 on it. Then move the CF Card over to your IBM 5150 no physical floppy disks required. Here are...

I didn't know that existed. It appears to allow a Book8088 v2 to run a CGA card instead of VGA restoring the video card to CGA like on the v1 version. You can run an Intel 8088 on a Book 8088 already. Even if you did recreate the PCB that tough part is reproducing the 2 large ASICs that...

After plugging the ISA expansion board into my Book 8088 v1 I've managed to break it and it won't boot up anymore. I'm guessing I must have plugged something in backwards and damaged something on the board. Adrian Black's recent video on the Book 8088 () inspired me to give repairing this thing...

Not all CF cards will boot so you may simply have one that won’t boot for whatever reason and you need to try another CF card. That being said you may I got a 2gb cf card booting on my Book 8088 before it died so I know it’s possible. I loaded the cf card in virtualbox, installed MS DOS 6.22...

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Do not immerse the board in vinegar but use it to neutralize the acid and then clean with soap and water and allow to dry completely. I have a battery leak damaged 286 motherboard a pretty nice one … if it worked that I’d like to get back to some day.

Do you have any DOS disks you can test to see if the drive is working and reading disks? You can type 'gw rpm' to tell if the greaseweazel is communicating with the drive for things like cabling. If all is well it will spin for a bit. The drive should be connected after the twist so it's the...

Yes you are jumpered correctly, I only mention I jumper for old 360k dos floppy disks. For Atari ST you’re safe with the normal rotation rate (and encoding). Are you absolutely positive that is not a 1-sided disks? Some c64 disks are one sided, I’ve heard…

I have that same style of light blue PCB Teac FD55-GFR and I can tell you there are two jumpers you need to worry about. 1 is the cross on the left to select the drive ID. Assuming you are using a standard PC floppy cable with a twist DS1 as you have it set is correct. The other jumper of...

The 386 was a truly revolutionary CPU. Not only did it feature full 32-bit addressing, an even more impactful feature was its built-in MMU. The MMU is what allowed you to quickly switch between apps on Windows 3.11. So the real question is not whether the 386 is relevant, the question is if did...

Single-sided disks are good for Atari ST

Unfortunately I don't have any Atari ST disks to test. These are single-sided 3.5" double density disks? It's possible that the disk data is bad, but it's also possible that you're not reading the data correctly. gw read --format=atarist.360 "C:\COMSTUFF\No Save\test.hfe" By specifying...

I finally got the floppy/serial controller rebuilt and put a new (real NS) PC8544bv-1 chip in it. I made sure not to install JP1. On the bright side plugging the card in no longer results in burnt out traces. Unfortunately, plugging the floppy controller in seems to have killed my micro-8088. No...