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pcxtbios

Super PC/Turbo XT BIOS (by virtualxt)

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BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers (by skiselev)

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pcxtbios		8088_bios
	Project
1	Mentions	6
40	Stars	494
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	7.2
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	23 days ago
Assembly	Language	Assembly
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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pcxtbios

Posts with mentions or reviews of pcxtbios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-12.

80286 ROM BIOS - open-source code base?
9 projects | /r/homebrewcomputer | 12 Nov 2022

There is this: https://github.com/virtualxt/pcxtbios

8088_bios

Posts with mentions or reviews of 8088_bios. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-15.

GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 17 Oct 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 17 Oct 2023

3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Oct 2023
Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2023

Just a heads up, it looks like these guys ripped off Serge Kiselev's 8088 BIOS [1].
[1] https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios
TinyBIOS – A minimalist open-source BIOS project for fun
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2022

There are at least three "real" 8086 BIOSes-- "real" as in they can work on actual hardware rather than just emulators-- available in source form, which might be worth examining.
https://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=101 -- this is a respin of code that apparently originated in the 1980s in sketchy Taiwanese clones, so I think some of the docs are reverse engineered
http://glabios.org/ is an all-new-still-under-development project, but it works well enough for my hobby usage.
https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios These are more targeted towards some specific hardware projects (Xi8088/Micro8088)
Obviously, being for a simple 8086 mrans they don't have some of the complex chipset config used in a modern PC, and even stuff like "hard disc support" is outsourced (for that, you might consider stuff like the XT-IDE Universal BIOS)
80286 ROM BIOS - open-source code base?
9 projects | /r/homebrewcomputer | 12 Nov 2022

And another: https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios