#compactflash cards

I guess it might be! Anyway, the past few days I’ve been looking at stuff for the Pocket 8086 again, mainly stuff that’ll run on it, although I did put all the associated bits for it in a bigger bag, so I’ve got plenty of space now for 2 PicoMEMs, 2 Super I/O cards, 2 external serial modems and documents, a null modem cable that has 9 and 25 pin connectors at both ends, 2 micro USB cables (to…

So, earlier today, I received the 7 CF cards (4x 8GB, 3x 4GB) I ordered much sooner than expected (first the 8th of Jan, then the 2nd), and they all have now been labelled so I know where they’re going to be used, and did some reorganisation as well between bags. Additionally, I’m after ordering 3 CF card cases with capacity for 6 CF cards, so I can keep the default card plus the other 2 cards…

I managed to successfully test a null modem connection between my 2 Pocket 8086 laptops, which was cool, but have no idea how to fully use it between them, beyond a couple of multiplayer games, seeing as the spec is still pretty low! The Pocket 386s would open up being able to run more games and software for that sort of thing, but I do need to get a second Pocket 386 first. This is one thing…

More retro laptop stuff!

Whilst I’ve made a list of all the games that are or used to be freeware on the PC (and a few games on other systems), I should probably be looking at getting patches for those games, as well as the older games I’ve physical copies of. That said, however, the patches need to be the most recent before they ended up going onto platforms like Steam, so they’re able to be played without needing to…