Date   : Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:17:43 +0100
From   : Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>
Subject: Re: 80186 board in Master

David Harper wrote:
 > 
http://www.cowsarenotpurple.co.uk/bbccomputer/master512/bibliography.html#m512tg

Ooo, schematics!

I've got a board with an NEC V20 (read: souped-up 8086) CPU on it... If I can 
get my hands on some DRAMs, I might look into the prospect of cloning the 
Master 512 coprocessor in an FPGA, then maybe add some PC hardware and a BIOS.

I've got the source code to a 'clone' PC-AT BIOS, which should be fairly 
portable to other hardware. Write some code to interface between the Master 
and the CPU, upload code, run it.. Heck, with a bit of work, it might be 
possible to run MS-DOS 3.3 (or FreeDOS) on it. No graphics support, like, but 
MDA shouldn't be too hard.

*adds it to the Great Big List of Potential Projects*

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