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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 31.01.2024, 00:48

> A review on another retro forum recommends to upgrade the Book8088 BIOS to
> this one: https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios
>

Just be careful that there are two versions of Book8088. This was last tested with version v1. Although it's likely to work with v2, might be better to burn it on a spare EEPROM before trying it out.

> 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.
Keyboard is ok-ish. Nothing special, but I've seen worse on netbooks. Housing - I agree. The lower part is pretty much see through. Although that also has a bit of charm, because you can somewhat see different components.

> unfortunately Windows 3.0 only works with EGA drivers due to the reviewer
> not finding any Cirrus GD5422 compatible Win3 VGA drivers.

I found this in 5 minutes on Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/gd54xx

But I didn't even try searching on Google as it likely sucks when it comes to things like this. :)

P.S. I have EEE PC 701 and 901HD but haven't yet tried SBEMU. It's on todo list. :)

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