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Running ST-DOS on Book8088 (Developers)

posted by roytam, 28.02.2024, 08:13

> > > > I included output from BIOSDRVS.COM that comes with XT-IDE.
> > > > https://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/binaries/r625/biosdrvs.com
> > >
> > > According to that it seems that Book8088 already supports LBA, so the
> > USB
> > > stick image should just work.
> >
> > As far as I remember, there is a thread here about Book8088 crashing
> > FreeDOS because the XT-IDE BIOS was compiled *without* LBA support and
> > there was a bug in how the main BIOS then reported not having LBA
> support,
> > which overwrote some important other data in RAM. I hope this got fixed
> in
> > BIOS updates, but I doubt that they compile XT-IDE with LBA support now?
>
> AFAIK, Book8088 still uses a customized
> https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios

yeah, forked from version 0.9.4 which has LBA bug, even book8088 v2 has a newer BIOS but it is still 0.9.4.

Complete thread:

• Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - samwdpckr, 27.02.2024, 11:28 (Developers)
  • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - glennmcc, 27.02.2024, 18:39
    • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - RayeR, 27.02.2024, 18:50
  • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - Oso2k, 27.02.2024, 23:03
    • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - samwdpckr, 27.02.2024, 23:28
      • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - mceric, 28.02.2024, 00:26
        • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - Oso2k, 28.02.2024, 00:53
          • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - roytam, 28.02.2024, 08:13
        • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - roytam, 28.02.2024, 00:53
          • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - glennmcc, 28.02.2024, 01:03
          • Running ST-DOS on Book8088 - roytam, 29.02.2024, 04:11