Finally picked back up with documenting some of the work I've been doing with my V86P. Here's the write-up for the ISA backplane I put together: https://knm.org.uk/blog/2024/03/working-on-the-v86p-expansion-bus/ I've got a few more drafts written, and a folder full of photos - I just need to do a …

But I don't think a lot of Vogons users are aware of the state of this project and that you could order one (think it will be closed soon/today?) as most of the updates are only on Discord (and Twitter I believe). So that maybe explains the low amount of reactions. Is there a discord link available …

I just got a Victor V86P in a fairly good condition from a dumpster yesterday. Sadly it came without any PSU nor battery so I cannot test it atm. I'll be interested into your circuit but I don't get why it's using a non standard/harder to find 8.5V charger for input and not a regular and widely …

The NE2000 support sounds particularly useful - I'd be really interested in spinning a board that'll plug into the expansion interface on my Victor V86P, although for testing purposes I did make a breakout that gives me an ISA connector (powered from an ATX PSU). The expansion connector is basically …

If there's anyone else out there with a Victor V86P that has a dead (or missing) PSU and wants to use an existing 8.5V PSU (like the one for the Playstation2 suggested earlier), I've reverse engineered the battery charging circuitry that's in the original PSU, and made a little board to implement it …

Holy thread resurrect Batman! First of all though, before I put this away last year I was still having intermittent problems with the battery light flickering on during disk access, and read failures to boot. This continued even when I replaced the floppy with the HxC emulator, so my next suspect …