Past meets present in this $200 mini-laptop with a Intel 8088 chip and 640KB

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  • SBEMU

    legacy sound blaster emulation for DOS

  • DOS emulation is not a very battery-efficient way to play '88-98 games on the go, so projects like these seem to cater to that specific need, letting people run DOS natively. The Toshiba Libretto was a nice, small machine, but finding one in good condition is super hard. Toshiba Portégé was another, but after Pentium-II models, they took away the OPL3 card in favor of something more Windows-friendly (AC97), which doesn't have good DOS drivers. Now there's SBEMU (https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU), which can emulate SB/SBPRO/SB16 on top of newer PCI-based sound cards, including AC97 ones, solving that problem. Now it's possible to have sound on a Pentium-II, III, M and Atom machines running DOS, like a Sony Vaio P.

  • 8088_bios

    BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers

  • Just a heads up, it looks like these guys ripped off Serge Kiselev's 8088 BIOS [1].

    [1] https://github.com/skiselev/8088_bios

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  • elks

    Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086

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