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  1. This is pretty cool.

    MS-DOS 2.0 on the Apple IIe (March 2026)

    An Apple II enthusiast ported MS-DOS 2.0 to an Apple IIe running an ALF AD8088 Plus 8088 card (a much simpler device than the PC Transporter) designed for CP/M-86.

    It boot, supports 80-columns, reads the clock, reads disk data from a shared ProDOS file on the IIe's hard disk.

    Stated plans from the author, Seth Kushniryk, include Super Serial and Uthernet II support as well as running CP/M-80 on MS-DOS on ProDOS with a V20 swapped in for the 8088.

    sethkush.com/post/2026/03/12/m

    #AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #MSDOS #CPM #CPU #operatingsystems #OS #coprocessor #i8088 #AD8088 #maker #hacking #blog #blogpost #nostalgia #vintagetech #technews #tech #Apple2forever #Apple #AppleIIe

  2. I've now also completed part 2 of "Factory" - Day 10 of #AdventOfCode in #TurboPascal on the #Xi8088 !

    It takes about 25 minutes to run and was quite the challenge to write, I had to learn more than I was prepared to.

    But with it, that's all 12 days completed, all in #Pascal, all on the #i8088.

    What a journey! Thank you so much, @ericwastl

    Oh, and I'm never doing Advent of Code in Pascal again! That was really a dumb idea 😅

    #Retrocomputing #DOScember