@@ninoivanov I don't think so. But I could be wrong. It has been years since I got close and personal with windows 3. There are a bunch of addons from back in the days. The most notable I remember is called "calmira". It replaced the old style program manager and added a real desktop and start menu like win95 had.
@@ninoivanov not at all. The NEC V35 incorporates almost everything into the one chip including a VGA adapter & PCMCIA interface, which opens up a whole lot of possibilities including WiFi and 1000baseT
@@zhblue If you really want to make excellent retro laptops can I suggest using both NEC Vandem VG230 and VG330. Gives you a decent 8088 and 80286 compatible laptop with a decent feature set for retro gaming
@@ninoivanov what is the maximum size of the built in storage for this machine? is it possible to copy files and install games from external storage, for example from a pendrive?
512 MB is the standard CF card. Best way to do it: get a Compact Flash Card reader, and transfer files offline (i.e. turn the Book 8088 off, take out its CF card, attach it to the reader, attach the reader to your modern machine - and transfer at will).
Blinking red light and cracking sound is because of battery - charge your battery at full and don’t pull out the cable during recording video, so that you won’t have half of the video screwed up by your mis-use of the device.
@arnolduk123 EGA and VGA are almost the same thing, but some commands only work in VGA. I have the same computer with VGA card and it gives the same problem, the monitor goes blank in Windows 3, unless we've been fooled, and the board is EGA.
Mine seems to not have any problems, Except I think big USB drives wont work. I have 10GB hard drive that it can read from. I order the SF card with SD reader on it, maybe make it faster to transfer games..
#MeToo: the most reliable thing is to handle its CF-card with a card reader - its USB port anyway needs a reboot between mounts and is thus not too useful. Spoiler alert: modems are dangerous…
Are you able to: 1) Showcase it running different versions of classic productivity software like Microsoft Word 1.1a and Works 1.05… but then also see if it can handle Microsoft Works 2.0 and Word 2.0; and Works 3.0. See where it chokes in terms of retro paper writing or something. Maybe older Excel and PowerPoint just for fun? But also… can you test some emulators? In theory… at least ONE of these would work… I only listed a small sample of the DOS emulators out there. But. It’s what I know. - Atari: Z26 w/ APE - NES: NESticle, FE, FwNES - Game Boy: NO$GMB, Zboy - Sega Master System: MasterGear - Apple II: ApplePC - TI-99: V9t9 - Sinclair ZX Spectrum: Z80 - Commodore 64: VICE (C64) Also can you upgrade to a V20 to see how that affects performance? OH and check out ELKS 16-bit Linux xD
Great minds think alike - and a lot of what you say is "scheduled for later": ELKS, spoiler, does not work - it seems to see the cylinders, heads and sectors differently when emulated and in the real machine - I have a video on that, yet to be published. Old productivity software: a ton! But again - future videos. Right now, I am on an "operating systems & old Unix trip". Regarding Commodore, in the farther future, I can promise also quite a lot of adventures (I have a backlog of over 400 videos…). Regarding your other suggestions as to emulators: they are very warmly welcomed and I shall definitely see what I can do - thank you very much for these proposals, these do sound very worthwhile! 👌🏻
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If I remember correctly, you can just put all the files from all the windows diskettes into a single folder.
Makes it a little more tidy.
Thank you! I wasn‘t sure will not two files have the same name…
@@ninoivanov I don't think so. But I could be wrong.
It has been years since I got close and personal with windows 3. There are a bunch of addons from back in the days. The most notable I remember is called "calmira". It replaced the old style program manager and added a real desktop and start menu like win95 had.
I been watching these videos about book 8088 and there so chopped up, I just wait til mine comes and see if I can play Kings Quest 4 :D
About the Book 8088: “beware”. Two "not so great" ones are coming - regarding the spontaneous death of one of my machines.
The new version 3 cures a lot of the problems as it uses an NEC V35 and has an inbuilt hand crank to charge the battery
Joke as you like, but the OLPC XO & Co did, indeed, offer this in particular: wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Hand_Crank
@@ninoivanov not at all. The NEC V35 incorporates almost everything into the one chip including a VGA adapter & PCMCIA interface, which opens up a whole lot of possibilities including WiFi and 1000baseT
so far as I know there is "new version 3" and more other models under developing.
@@zhblue If you really want to make excellent retro laptops can I suggest using both NEC Vandem VG230 and VG330. Gives you a decent 8088 and 80286 compatible laptop with a decent feature set for retro gaming
@@zhblue Thank you, interesting! Any sources / websites you might be willing to share with us?
my book 8088 with serial port will not load mouse driver using a 2 button optical mouse with ps2 to 9 pin adaptor.
I am showing a serial mouse - DB25 (to DB9), not PS/2...
@@ninoivanov I am going to buy 9 pin serial mouse
if iam correctly informed, there is version 3 too
I heard of, but never saw, a version 3.
@@ninoivanov there is another one, named book 386. i dont know how many versions exists
Well… then be most heartily invited to check out my newer videos… 🥳
@@ninoivanov what is the maximum size of the built in storage for this machine? is it possible to copy files and install games from external storage, for example from a pendrive?
512 MB is the standard CF card. Best way to do it: get a Compact Flash Card reader, and transfer files offline (i.e. turn the Book 8088 off, take out its CF card, attach it to the reader, attach the reader to your modern machine - and transfer at will).
Blinking red light and cracking sound is because of battery - charge your battery at full and don’t pull out the cable during recording video, so that you won’t have half of the video screwed up by your mis-use of the device.
I figured that out, thank you. And it is beyond your phantasy what misuse this device is still to face - though it is hinted at in my intro... ;)
Hi, can the USB stick the Book8088 see it ?
It does - and following your question, I actually made a video demonstrating it. :)
@@ninoivanovgrazie
Graphic board is VGA, but monitor is not. Try EGA.
A-HA! Well, cool, thanks, I definitely shall!
Worked marvelously - next video is dedicated to your suggestion!
@arnolduk123 EGA and VGA are almost the same thing, but some commands only work in VGA. I have the same computer with VGA card and it gives the same problem, the monitor goes blank in Windows 3, unless we've been fooled, and the board is EGA.
Mine seems to not have any problems, Except I think big USB drives wont work. I have 10GB hard drive that it can read from. I order the SF card with SD reader on it, maybe make it faster to transfer games..
#MeToo: the most reliable thing is to handle its CF-card with a card reader - its USB port anyway needs a reboot between mounts and is thus not too useful. Spoiler alert: modems are dangerous…
I didnt realize they made a Version 2
MWAV - Micro$oft Windows Anti-Virus
Are you able to:
1) Showcase it running different versions of classic productivity software like Microsoft Word 1.1a and Works 1.05… but then also see if it can handle Microsoft Works 2.0 and Word 2.0; and Works 3.0.
See where it chokes in terms of retro paper writing or something. Maybe older Excel and PowerPoint just for fun?
But also… can you test some emulators? In theory… at least ONE of these would work… I only listed a small sample of the DOS emulators out there. But. It’s what I know.
- Atari: Z26 w/ APE
- NES: NESticle, FE, FwNES
- Game Boy: NO$GMB, Zboy
- Sega Master System: MasterGear
- Apple II: ApplePC
- TI-99: V9t9
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum: Z80
- Commodore 64: VICE (C64)
Also can you upgrade to a V20 to see how that affects performance?
OH and check out ELKS 16-bit Linux xD
Great minds think alike - and a lot of what you say is "scheduled for later": ELKS, spoiler, does not work - it seems to see the cylinders, heads and sectors differently when emulated and in the real machine - I have a video on that, yet to be published. Old productivity software: a ton! But again - future videos. Right now, I am on an "operating systems & old Unix trip". Regarding Commodore, in the farther future, I can promise also quite a lot of adventures (I have a backlog of over 400 videos…). Regarding your other suggestions as to emulators: they are very warmly welcomed and I shall definitely see what I can do - thank you very much for these proposals, these do sound very worthwhile! 👌🏻
EGA works fine on my book8088 VGA alpha version
and you can change the settings in dos by setup.exe
After the comment of GenilsondaSilva below, that is just what I did… :) Next video shows exactly that, plus a little other experiment…