Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-30, 12:35
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005542582463.html No way i'll fall for this 😁
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-26, 18:50
I'm pretty sure end effects in Area5150 requre real CGA monitor (or MartyPC :)) -- Perfect XT It's a matter of personal taste of course. If you want 386 in that format - you can get Hand386 and do a "remake" as board is tiny, low-power and has it all, except of some kind of DSP and ports. As for …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-26, 14:12
I had an interesting thought yesterday: How about recreating the Book8088's motherboard? Maybe recreate the CPLD's programming to allow for EMS memory and UMBs natively, plus add a RTC? Well, there's FE2010A chip and Micro8088 https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088 project. And there's PC XT core …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-25, 16:20
I was kindly gifted with a chip with v1.06 from STrRedWolf, but it didn't work on my rev.2 Book 8088 with the v20 swapped out with an 8088. I just get "no signal" when I try to boot. I suppose there is a small chance that it got damaged in shipping, but the packaging was good, and the package …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-23, 05:44
For me the hardest part was actually the soldering :) God bless manicure business for those lamps with lens :D If you plan to use some other microcontroller - take a look at the sources https://github.com/jinshin/BookKbd Don't forget you're dealing with 5V lines if you plan to control Turbo/Mute or …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-22, 18:55
Hey all - just discovered this forum. This place looks so exciting! Back to Book 8088 stuff - does anyone have any idea how I might go about replacing the keyboard on this thing? I love mine so far except for the absolutely horrid keyboard they installed. I type kind of hard, and the tiny fragile …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-03-15, 21:37
KarlG wrote on 2024-03-15, 16:21: Mine is swapped out with an 8088, so it would need to be the version for that CPU, I think? My BIOS releases work on both 8088 and V20 CPU - one binary includes both XT-IDE variants, so you safe here.
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-02-25, 17:46
I'm happy to announce that my postponed Book8088 V1.5 (one and a half) project is now complete :) My Book8088 V1 now has both fully functional external screen and keyboard connectors. And of course DMA refresh mod. I received and soldered back keyboard microcontroller (received even two, so if …
Re: CGA4VGA - correcting/altering CGA graphic modes colors on VGA
Posted on 2024-02-23, 09:59
Absolutely not disappointed :)That's quite niche stuff, so it's normal to get derailed. As a side note - looks like i made me a fun toy 😀
Re: CGA4VGA - correcting/altering CGA graphic modes colors on VGA
Posted on 2024-02-22, 14:49
8088 and CL-GD5429 with 1 MB of video RAM? Now that looks like overkill... is it possible use all video modes, including True Color? That's exactly my thought :) I didn't test for VESA modes or Windows drivers so far, but i think that amount of data will be too much for V20 CPU, even with Windows …
Re: CGA4VGA - correcting/altering CGA graphic modes colors on VGA
Posted on 2024-02-22, 14:12
Cirrus CL- GD 5459? I can't find much information about it, but for CL-GD5429. Interestingly, the manual for CL-GD542x series doesn't mention any (D)CGA/Hercules register compatibility. I find this to surprising, considering that this is an ISA compatible VGA chip. Sorry, yes it's CL-GD5429. …
CGA4VGA - correcting/altering CGA graphic modes colors on VGA
Posted on 2024-02-22, 11:36
Finalizing the thing i wanted to do about three decades ago :) As you might noticed, CGA colors in graphics 320x200x4 modes are not always correct. Sometimes Cyan/Magenta/White is displayed instead of Green/Red/Yellow, Mode 5, that usually displays Cyan/Red/White, ignored completely. As i got my …
Re: Some stories behind Book8088
Posted on 2024-02-21, 19:22
Before Book 8088 was sold on AliExpress, Shan Zhongyu had already spent at least 7 years exploring the creation of enthusiast computers based on the 8088. However, due to the retro computing community in China being more fragmented, even myself knew very little about the story behind Book 8088. I …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-02-13, 09:54
I assume the LCD board may have it's own firmware in EEPROM? Is the correct EEPROM linked above? Anyone know how to find out if I got the good firmware? I wouldn't refer to those as good or bad, as both has their quirks. Simplest way to determine which fw you have is to set mode 12h and see if it …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-02-04, 19:06
Hey folks. I just ordered a Book 8088 V2 VGA and after going through the thread, I'm left with: The BIOS needs to be updated, but that requires a EEPROM programmer. The latest is nop's v1.0.5. You should image the CF drive first. The version of Win 3.0 is slightly messed up. Other than that, is the …
Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?
Posted on 2024-01-10, 21:22
Ok, since i assembled my Book V1 back (connected the LCD screen) for testing VidSync, I've decided to dig into textmode centering issue a bit more. Everything below is for Book V1 CGA only. I thought, might reprograming 6845 CRTC help at least to some extent? This page https://stanislavs.org/helppc/ …
Re: Voodoo Rush help
Posted on 2023-12-29, 11:18
C:\Windows and subfolders registry for Local Machine: Software\Macronix
Re: Voodoo Rush help
Posted on 2023-12-29, 10:16
Attached here I did find any possible references to clock settings, but it does contain a very extensive registry list for video modes. It looks like two custom property pages are added to display settings for Macronix, probably saved to registry/ini , is there anything interesting? Have you tried …
Re: Voodoo Rush help
Posted on 2023-12-29, 09:02
It's certainly not Alliance Semiconductor chip My dead Rush had many problems, one of - latest drivers caused memory problems .inf file for it had the following lines which i removed to make them work: [Driver.AddClock] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Alliance Semiconductor\Driver\HW Acceleration …
Re: Voodoo Rush help
Posted on 2023-12-29, 08:02
It's certainly not Alliance Semiconductor chip My dead Rush had many problems, one of - latest drivers caused memory problems .inf file for it had the following lines which i removed to make them work: [Driver.AddClock] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Alliance Semiconductor\Driver\HW Acceleration …
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