Diagnosing Xi 8088 Stability Issues

Although it seemed to work fine when I first built it, lately I’ve been experiencing some problems with my Xi 8088. The computer is fairly stable with 5 expansion cards installed (compactflash, CPU, OPL 2 (Adlib), Floppy, and VGA. However, it becomes significantly less stable as a sixth and seventh expansion card is installed. This …

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Building an Xi 8088 PC

In this video, I construct an Xi 8088 PC, based on the design by Sergey Kiselev: Overview This was a long, involved project. I started out by ordering a set of boards from Todd over at the retrobrew forums: These boards included: 8-slot backplane with BIOS POST code display Xi 8088 CPU board (CPU, RAM, …

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