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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by mceric, Germany, 30.01.2024, 22:49

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 :-)

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