Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-03, 11:03

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by Yrouel

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USB controller on a 386? How does that even work? It's not true USB, it's only for storage media. It uses a CH375 chip which you could already find on ISA cards for a while. Tech Tangents among others made a video about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtvVi_mjjg FreddyV developed a better …

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Re: The IDE to CF adapter works without power

Posted on 2024-03-19, 12:46

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by Yrouel

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To my incredible surprise, by mounting the adapter you see in the photo without connecting it to the power supply, it works perfectly! I didn't think it would take power from the normal 40-pin IDE cable, but is this something expected? Doesn't it overload the IDE controller circuitry? Beware that …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-02-13, 15:33

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by Yrouel

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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? And yes, I got my Book8088 in. I'm looking at programmers now. The firmware dump I linked above is the new VGA one extracted from a replacement …

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Re: Help to find the CD-ROM of the SSV CP/486SX2 DIL/NetPC with ADNP/1486-3V module starter kit

Posted on 2024-02-05, 10:36

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by Yrouel

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That is One odd board. Found some info but does mention "datalite ROM-DOS 6.22"....am sure you already have this info http://web.archive.org/web/20041208012947/http://www.dilnetpc.com/dnp0008.htm I indeed found a lot of documentation but what I really need are the ROM-DOS images from the CD-ROM …

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Re: Help to find the CD-ROM of the SSV CP/486SX2 DIL/NetPC with ADNP/1486-3V module starter kit

Posted on 2024-02-05, 03:19

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by Yrouel

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In this thread (very old now), someone from the company burnt him a CD ... https://www.ssv-comm.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=632 Have you tried that route yet? Yeah I saw that forum and I couldn't register so I contacted the company (now it's SSV Software Systems) and they essentially told me to pound …

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Help to find the CD-ROM of the SSV CP/486SX2 DIL/NetPC with ADNP/1486-3V module starter kit

Posted on 2024-02-05, 02:36

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by Yrouel

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I recently acquired this CP/486SX2 DIL/NetPC PC/104 board (made by SSV Embedded Systems, a German company) which essentially acts as a breakout board for the ADNP/1486-3V module (based on the AMD Elan SC410 SoC) and while it works it only boots from a CF Card but it's supposed to also be able to …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2024-02-01, 00:14

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Got this I-Bus SBC today: Intel 82430HX MR BIOS V3.57 Build: V098I5MC Date: 05/27/98 EDIT: I re-dumped the BIOS using both Microid Research own MRFLASH utility and a TL866 (these two matched), I deleted the previous incorrect dump (only half of the content it seems and I'm attaching the new one To …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2024-01-30, 20:11

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by Yrouel

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jheronimus wrote on 2024-01-30, 14:47: This is very interesting. Not only is this a new Soc7 image, but it's also the first I see a MR BIOS firmware newer than 3.46. This seems to be the board by the way https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/i-bus-ibus-mako

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2024-01-30, 14:45

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by Yrouel

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Got this I-Bus SBC today: Intel 82430HX MR BIOS V3.57 Build: V098I5MC Date: 05/27/98 EDIT: I re-dumped the BIOS using both Microid Research own MRFLASH utility and a TL866 (these two matched), I deleted the previous incorrect dump (only half of the content it seems and I'm attaching the new one

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 23:22

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by Yrouel

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Thanks for the dumps. I've successfully reflashed mine with the newer version. No need to unsolder the chip, but still some soldering needed, see the attached pics. Good thing is that no programmer is needed, done via VGA DDC lines on a linux PC, using this code: https://github.com/static-void/ …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-01-12, 11:25

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by Yrouel

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I received a new LCD controller as well and I was able to dump the firmware from both boards and I can confirm that a simple firmware transplant seems sufficient to fix the original board. Unfortunately it was necessary to desolder both EEPROMs otherwise the TL866 complained about overcurrent when …

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Re: IBM ROM Basic - option ROM for PC clones

Posted on 2024-01-04, 22:18

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by Yrouel

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Would it be possible to squeeze in this BASIC (or *a* BASIC) into Sergey's Book8088 BIOS ROM alongside the BIOS proper and XT-IDE? It would be nice if the Book8088 booted into BASIC if no CF card was inserted (or manually with F8)

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-12-21, 10:16

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by Yrouel

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1st post for posterity; I bought one on black friday and have been playing around with it. The book 8088 only supplies +5v and +12v, any cards that require -5v will kill the display and you'll get a 'no signal' error when powering on. If anyone plans to use it to play around with 80's expansion …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-12-18, 20:52

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by Yrouel

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How did you enable EGA in Windows 3.0? When you're fresh installing you just tell it when the moment comes (it's obvious), otherwise in the Main window open Windows Setup and then go to Options and then Change System Settings and you pick EGA from the Display drop down menu. It will ask you the …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-12-18, 20:03

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by Yrouel

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Otherwise you can extract the files using for example WinImage and use a usb drive (remember max 2GB and FAT16). I was looking at this yesterday. The issue is how I mount the IMG files once converted to DOS format on the USB. It appears that I have multiple folders of 360K files. I am uncertain how …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-12-18, 10:28

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by Yrouel

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Book 8088 V2 just arrived a few questions: -Any suggestions installing IMG files from WinWorldPC? -Best way to run EGA or VGA for Windows 3.0? Seems to run CGA 2 colour of the box. I came across this on another thread https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/windows-3-0-vga-color-driver-for-8088- …

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Re: 40-Pin Cf Compact Flash Card To 3.5 Ide Converter - PC wont get past Detecting Drives

Posted on 2023-12-15, 12:03

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by Yrouel

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For reference the latest IDE BIOS and flasher utility for the SiI3114 cards can be found inside this archive and it's version 5.5.0.0 (SiI3114_5500.zip -> b5500.bin): http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1015 While the latest driver for Windows 98 is version 1.3.10 erroneously marked for …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-12-14, 13:28

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by Yrouel

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It's not possible ATM. Not only because i messed up with git at some point, but because floppy emulation for example requires hacking into main int 13h code in a not nice way, though i did attempt to tidy that up in latest commits. On the other side, XT-CF / Sound modules can be easily integrated. …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-12-14, 12:22

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by Yrouel

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n0p wrote on 2023-12-12, 19:24: Book8088 BIOS v1.0.5 You should consider making pull requests to the main repo at least for the features you think are more mature and stable while keeping your repo and releases for the more experimental stuff. For example it would be nice to have floppy emulation …

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Re: 40-Pin Cf Compact Flash Card To 3.5 Ide Converter - PC wont get past Detecting Drives

Posted on 2023-12-12, 10:06

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by Yrouel

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If you have a PCI slot available I would suggest to ditch IDE completely for the hard disk (used loosely here) and install a PCI SATA card instead. The SiI3114 based cards work just fine down to Windows 98 (and likely 95 as well) and you won't have any BIOS related size limitation or compatibility …

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