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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by roytam, 31.01.2024, 03:24

> A review on another retro forum recommends to upgrade the Book8088 BIOS to
> this one: https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios
>
> The review is not impressed by quality of housing and keyboard, but in
> general, the device seems okay. By default, it seems to come with a 504 MB
> CF.
> There also is an USB port, which only recognizes FAT16 storage and only at
> boot, not when you plug or change devices later. There is a turbo mode
> which can be activated with Fn F6 and unfortunately Windows 3.0 only works
> with EGA drivers due to the reviewer not finding any Cirrus GD5422
> compatible Win3 VGA drivers. Interestingly, the NSSI tool fails while in
> turbo mode. Getting the device from China will usually involve having to
> pay taxes and filling some forms on receipt in Germany.
>
> PS: Somebody in the same thread mentions SBEMU now making DOS compatible
> sound possible on some EEEpc models :-)
VOGONS Vintage Driver Library has it.
http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2120&menustate=0

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