And I forgot to mention we also now have Raspberry Pis acting as Virtual Floppy connected via ISA.
https://www.smbaker.com/raspberry-pi-virtual-floppy-for-isa-pc-xtat-computers On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 4:51 PM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: > There seems to be a resurgence of 8088/ISA compatible homebrew computers > and designs. Besides NuXT[0], the original Sergey Kiseliev Designs > [1][2][3][4][5][6], we now have EMM's designs [7][8][9][10][11][12][13], > some ISA ethernet cards [14][15], some sound cards > [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24], and a VGA card [25]. Would be > interesting if they could be shrunk down a bit. Otherwise, a Raspberry Pi > Zero W or Zero 2 W is far easier to sneak into a small case. > > > [0] > https://monotech.fwscart.com/NuXT_v20_MicroATX_Turbo_XT_10MHz_832K_XTIDE_MultiIO_SVGA/p6083514_19777986.aspx > [1] http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/sergey-s-xt > [2] https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088 > [3] https://github.com/skiselev/isa8_backplane > [4] http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/isa-supervga > [5] http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/isa-opl2-card > [6] http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergeys-projects/isa-fdc-and-uart > [7] https://www.youtube.com/user/elijahmmiller/videos > [8] https://www.homebrew8088.com/ > [9] > https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/archived-pages/v40-motherboard-project > [10] https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/archived-pages/8088-pc-compatible > [11] > https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/archived-pages/8088-mother-board-project > [12] https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/archived-pages/isa-card-lcd-screen > [13] https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/archived-pages/raspberry-pi > [14] https://github.com/Manawyrm/ISA8019 > [15] https://github.com/skiselev/isa8_eth > [16] https://github.com/hkzlab/ES688_ISA8 > [17] https://github.com/hkzlab/ES1868_ISA8 > [18] https://github.com/spark2k06/Internal_ISAOPL3 > [19] https://www.excelvalley.com/product/opl3plt-synth/ > [20] https://github.com/zjuyzj/OPL2LPT-Replica > [21] https://github.com/yeokm1/pcb-covox > [22] https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker > [23] https://github.com/labs-lv/blasterboard > [24] https://github.com/schlae/graphics-gremlin > [25] https://github.com/Leshak-pcb/Pine-CL-GD5434 > > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:14 AM Frantisek Rysanek < > frantisek.rysa...@post.cz> wrote: > >> FreeDOS embedded in the BIOS is certainly a nice touch. >> Then again, the one thing that speaks in favour of the weeCee is the >> SB-Pro-compatible audio chip. Unique to the weeCee, of all the >> Vortex-based machines out there. >> >> The Vortex86DX in particular is a "sweet spot" for old-school legacy >> DOS gaming - that Vortex generation still has native full-fledged ISA >> bus, can be underclocked below "an equivalent of Pentium 200 MHz" >> (which is more like 400 Vortex MHz), while at the same time already >> having an FPU. And the onboard XGI Z9s with 32 MB of dedicated VRAM >> is also nice (including its VESA option ROM). >> >> In other misc hardware, the Vortex86DX has one other potential >> advantage in the way of "legacy compatibility": the AMI BIOS from >> ICOP still has configurable options related to ISA IOMEM windows (no >> particular use for that in the weeCee). On the more modern Vortex >> generations, this is fading away. >> >> Frank >> >> >> On 28 Nov 2021 at 20:00, Ivan Ivanov wrote: >> >> > Dennis, thank you for sharing. First of all, if you'd like to get a >> > Vortex86 CPU-based PC, better to get those which are supported by the >> > opensource coreboot BIOS, instead of the proprietary closed-source >> > BIOS. This way, with the help of coreboot's SeaBIOS payload, you'll be >> > able to - using a simple "cbfstool" command - add a floppy image of >> > FreeDOS / whatever other floppy OS - to the coreboot.rom BIOS image, >> > flash it into a BIOS chip, and have a FreeDOS permanently available as >> > a boot entry! (being able to run it directly from a BIOS chip). If >> > you're interested, ask questions & I could reply with more info :-) >> > >> > , 27 . 2021 . 18:37, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com>: >> > > >> > > >> https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/weeCee___Tiny_DOS_Gaming_PC.html >> > > >> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USHvvSbYmJA >> > > -- >> > > ______ >> > > Dennis >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Freedos-user mailing list >> > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Freedos-user mailing list >> > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> >
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