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Xi 8088 IBM PC/XT Compatible Processor Board

Build your own IBM compatible PC. Click on the image below to learn more.

ISA Backplane

This backplane can be used with the XI8088 and many other single board computers. It offers POST code display and LED voltage indicators. Works with modern ATX power supplies and has 9 pin serial header, and onboard -5V rail for retro sound cards.

ISA Floppy Disk and Serial Controller

This ISA Floppy Disk and Serial Controller card provides one floppy disk interface supporting up to two floppy drives, an RS-232 serial interface. This board is also compatible with the GoTek SDCard -> floppy drive emulators. This is an easy way to add SD card reading capabilities to your retro PC.

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XT-CF-Lite V4

This card allows connecting a Compact Flash (CF) card to computers with ISA bus and using it as a virtual hard drive.

OPL2 Adlib Compatible Sound Card

The ISA OPL2 Card is based on Yamaha OPL2 chip, officially known as YM3812. This card is compatible with the AdLib Music Synthesizer that was very popular in late 80's - early 90's. Most older games support Adlib out of the box and no drivers or environment settings required to get this card up and running. Assemble it, plug it in and it just works!

Retro Pie Instructions

This page shows how to setup your brand new SD card for the first time.

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Retro Computing Software Development

16-bit Development Environment Setup

This page shows how to setup a 16-bit development environment
on Windows 10 targeting the 80x86 architecture
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Quick Reference Utility by David Jurgens

The information found here is distilled knowledge of many
thousands of pages of Programmer reference material for the
IBM PC and compatible computers from the 80s and 90s
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FreeDOS 1.3 Installation

This page shows how to install FreeDOS 1.3
on an Xi8088 machine that has a Floppy and a Hard Drive
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