All – I haven’t directly posted to the list much recently, but I do lurk, and I mostly hang out on the S100 list and of course the VCF forums. But I thought I’d post something about what I’ve been working on over the last year-ish or so. I really liked the Lomas video board, the Color Magic, mostly because I thought I could use it with my Gazelle (there was a reference in some source code). But, the CM is pretty rare, so I created a reproduction which took nearly two years to complete (most of it was idle, waiting to crack the PALs on the board which only occurred earlier this year). That reproduction works great, and I have some boards available. While I was waiting to move that project along, I worked with a few guys on the Seattle Computer Products 86-DOS source code reconstruction after F15sim found all of those disks. That was an awesome project and I got to work with some really smart people, so I learned a lot. Once that project concluded, I undertook another Lomas-related project, doing a reproduction of their 186-based board. Lomas had a 186-based SBC that’s fully-integrated with peripherals and 256k of DRAM. That one only took 3 months for me to create a working modernized reproduction. So, if you add a floppy to it, you have a nice 2-board system able to run PC/DOS up to 3.3 (and probably higher, but I haven’t tried). It will also run with external RAM, so my system is running with 640k (using CompuPro RAM) – a 4-board PC. Unfortunately, it’s not really PC-compatible; it’s more like the Tandy 2000 in that way. Most software works so long as it sticks to DOS or BIOS calls. Direct video calls will work because the Color Magic is a PC-compatible CGA board. The two follow-on projects hopefully will include a reproduction of Lomas’ SCSI board (no schematics or docs have been found yet in the wild), and I’d really like to get Windows 1.0 running on it. It nearly runs, but it needs a few custom drivers which I may try to write using the Tandy 2000 drivers as a model. Lomas also had a 286 board which looks to be reproducible but there’s no manual/schematics for that either. Anyway, I’ve posted a lot of stuff on my GitHub (https://github.com/RichCini/) for those interested. I could really use help locating those missing manuals. Overall, I’m impressed with the quality of the boards Rich Lomas produced, but they’re very dense boards chip-wise (the Color Magic in particular) and were challenging to reproduce. Happy holidays all, and more to come in the new year! Rich -- Rich Cini http://cini.classiccmp.org