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Some 8088 Portable Love

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Reply 20 of 24, by xjas

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x_86 wrote:

The first picture is a little blinding because the brightness was too high, otherwise the monitor displays perfectly.

But that green phosphor bloom is downright tasty.

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Reply 21 of 24, by Ozzuneoj

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Amazing little computer!

Strange that it reports an 8Mhz V20, yet the benchmark shows it being the same as a 4.77Mhz 8088.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 22 of 24, by Jo22

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Errius wrote:

You can plug CGA cards into TVs with RCA inputs right? You may be able to get color out of this thing.

Good idea, I hope x_86 is able to! 😀 Though I noticed that several computers with on-board CGA have got a monochrome composite video-out only (aka BAS, VBS, etc).
Don't know exactly why, though. Guess it had to do with providing a better image quality on green monitors or for international support.
Back in time, video monitors in Europe, Australia and China didn't support NTSC colour-encoding but were otherwise able to display 60Hz
via the old b/w standard (required adjustment of v/h-hold knobs).

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Reply 23 of 24, by Scali

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Ozzuneoj wrote:

Strange that it reports an 8Mhz V20, yet the benchmark shows it being the same as a 4.77Mhz 8088.

Well, I don't know about V20s, but perhaps it is possible to detect the speed rating of them in some way.
So it might detect that the CPU is rated for 8 MHz, even though it is running at 4.77 MHz (perhaps the machine can run at 8 MHz if you find out how to enable its turbo mode?).

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Reply 24 of 24, by matze79

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oh nice, i saw this one also in a Military Grade Version, some Years ago.. at a Military Store @ Germany.
Pretty rare Machine.
i wish i had one too 😀

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