In this case, I'm using a Wifi modem, however (WiModem232 Pro). I imagine a direct null cable connection with a utility like that would be much "cleaner", though.

There's one program that I know can do pull that stunt, it's Ultrafast Filetransfer Operation from the mid-80s. It can copy/retrieve files over V.24 port. Screenshots here JFYI I did get your PM, but I still don't have privileges to send PMs or even reply to them. I'm thinking that I need 20 posts, …

What is the max usable speed of the COM port on these things? I got a wifi modem, and it seems to work at 38,400, but I had some issues with some random garbage characters here and there when I went to a BBS, so I'm wondering if I was pushing it a bit too fast? I know I can find out via trial and …

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. I was kindly gifted with a chip with v1.06 from STrRedWolf, but it didn't work on my rev.2 Book …

Give me a private message here with your name and address, and I'll send one out. I just saw 1.06 drop here, so I'll send that out. Thanks, but it doesn't look like I can send out private messages on this site because I only have a few posts? Probably a spammer deterrent. Could you send an email to …

Got the equipment all in today and I flashed the updated v1.05 BIOS onto a new chip. So far, looking good. Now to go check into flashing the firmware on the LCD controller, and cleaning out the drive a bit. Meanwhile, I do have four more flash chips I can burn and send folks from the Baltimore/DC …

Very impressive! I'm wondering if it's faster than the CGA Wolfenstein 3D port on the same hardware? Sounds like it would come out to the same number of bytes for the display with your method, but simpler than having 4 pixels per byte on CGA.

This is a very minor tip, but it reduced my frustration a bit. I put a "mode 40" at the end of my fdauto.bat (freedos autoexec equivalent) to avoid the annoying screen alignment issue on boot. 40 column mode never seems to be misaligned, and it's usually fine for whatever I need to do.

@KarlG, according to Sergey's post on VCFED forums: VGA won't init on 8088 CPU as it's BIOS uses 186 commands. So if you inserted 8088 into V2 Book with VGA - that's the cause. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/book-8088-discovery-and-modification-thread.1245155/#post-1344999 I just thought …

@KarlG, according to Sergey's post on VCFED forums: VGA won't init on 8088 CPU as it's BIOS uses 186 commands. So if you inserted 8088 into V2 Book with VGA - that's the cause. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/book-8088-discovery-and-modification-thread.1245155/#post-1344999 Oh, …

I assure you, replacing CPU was not the cause. If it plays a sound - both CPU and BIOS are working. I've changed those a few times. You could bend chip legs and possibly break it (the leg, not chip, and it's easily repairable). -- It might be: display board, located in the bottom of display lid, …

So, today I attempted to replace the NEC V20 CPU with an 8088-2 (so I could get closer to XT speeds, but still use the Turbo setting). I'm pretty sure I have it in the right direction with the notch facing the left and the text rightside up if facing the keyboard normally (the same way the NEC V20 …

Possible answer is here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=58530 Working TurboImage link in in the end. Hope it works for you, i haven't tested it on my Book8088. Sorry, it requires 2MB XMS to run I guess common sense would say that anything that works with floppy images directly would …

I was wondering if anyone had any clever ways of installing software on this thing from multiple floppy images? One can of course install via something like DOSBox and copy over the installed directory via a USB drive, but I was wondering if there was any DOS utility that could read floppy images …

Good news hearing that, I'll be able to verify when I can actually pick mine up tomorrow. The VGA was actually an upgrade / a higher cost model - you can actually buy the CGA adapter as a "module" from aliexpress just like I brought the VGA upgrade module. I can't find the CGA version to link but …

I got the version 2 of the Book 8088, and it seems like a lot of the issues of the first one have been addressed. There are external ports (serial and parallel), the screen seems pretty bright and readable to me, and the BIOS shows the proper copyright now. I somehow missed that this version is VGA …

I just wanted to say that I was thinking of coding something like this myself, but this seems to fit my needs perfectly! Edit: JFYI, this also runs fine on a HP 200LX palmtop.

I found this topic because I've acquired a HP 200LX palmtop, which is pretty much a pocket XT running DOS. It uses CGA graphics on a B&W LCD screen that can do 4-color CGA in greyscale, or the high-res monochrome CGA mode. I'm having fun trying different DOS games on it, and am mining this topic for …