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OK, I will try it and reply back. Does it also resolve the other CMOS option save issues? thx

A few notes for the Pocket386 after a few days (hours) playing with it - The installed/default driver for the CH375 USB solution is garbage. It seems to only be able to properly interface with a USB flash drive if it is prepared with a floppy image. I could not create a FAT partition that was...

Hi All - I bought a couple Book8088 V2s... went through some challenges (LCD controller), added UMBs, joysticks, ethernet, etc. Lots of fun playing with something like my childhood first PC, but pretty much maxed out. I pulled the trigger on a Pocket 386, and recently received it. I posted this...

I received the Pocket386 finally. I attached some photos, but I'll try to start a new thread if someone didn't beat me to it. A couple of things - The keyboard mouse function does not allow drag and drop because you cannot use more than one key at a time. If you exit to DOS from Win95, then...

I'm using the very popular XGecu Pro Model: T48. I'm not sure how it's bundled at various stores, but I bought the slightly more expensive one that included a bunch of socket adapters. The key for the VGA board is that you get the version that includes the SOIC 8-Pin Test Clip & adapter. Once...

I will try via virtualbox and see how that goes. The drive is the same CF card model that i received with the Book8088 but the 2GB model (WD SiliconDrive). I'll keep messing with it.

I'm trying to install DOS 6.22 to a WD / SilconDrive 2GB CF card in the Book8088 using the latest 1.0.6 Jinshin BIOS without success. I'm able to boot from USB using the DOS floppy images with the system going through all of the steps as normal. In the end, the system attempts to boot from the...

Someone posted earlier about not having a flash tool. My offer still stands anytime - if you're in the Austin TX area i can help flash the vga board, or (E)EPROMs and other stuff

With the older FW it was easy to trigger the text alignment issue by entering graphics mode and then back to text/DOS prompt. The bottom 1 or 2 lines would be below the screen but I haven't reproduced it since updating the FW. I should be receiving a new board in the next week, and if the FW is...

I flashed the new (attached above) firmware to my older V2 system - it resolved the issues. No more Mode 80 commands are needed. I will try to dump the FW from my newer system and see if it matches or is different. I have a photo of the controller board, just in case. (Edit - Attached the...

Hi - Please see attached. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, or compare to the (working) firmware in my latest V2.

More notes - The VGA card in my first Book8088 V2 was/went bad. It was fine the first couple of hours that the system was on, but then started to develop screen corruption that got worse. After that happened, the system would boot up clean usually, but then the screen corruption would pop up...

I received the Monotech MicroRAM yesterday and started playing with that. Using USE!UMBS + DOSMAX now I boot to DOS 6.22 using only 10KB, which is amazing! I found the Windows startup .bat files in DOSMAX and have 430KB free in Win 3.0, which was a pleasant surprise. 10/10 - I do recommend...

I pulled the trigger on this thing. I'll report back in a couple weeks.

thanks a lot! I've been lurking for a while. First computer was Tandy 1000SX with 640KB and dual 360K 5.25" without HDD. Recently bought a couple of Book8088 V2 systems to mess around with, and so my kids / future engineers can learn the joys of preparing and tuning config.sys & autoexec.bat...