[vcf-midatlantic] ISA BIOS extension board?

[Richard Cini]

Thanks David. I bought a cheap, new NIC with a ROM socket and I’m going to burn XTIDEBIOS to it. I’m going to try a prebuilt version first and then maybe build 2.0 from source.


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Sent: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:32 AM
To: Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic
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Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA BIOS extension board?

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 09:09:20PM -0500, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>So, I was looking for an ISA card with the LBA BIOS extensions. I know they made them years ago, but I don???t know exactly what they are called, so I???m not having much success in locating one.
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I remember using them back in the day. I found a couple in my stuff.
One is a LBA PRO by Unicore software and the other is AMIDISK V1.1 IDE
extension by American Megatrends. I think these were to allow larger disks
but could be to support IDE or a second IDE since in the same bag is an IDE
board without BIOS on it.

Looks like you can by a modern version
https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/Lo-tech_ISA_ROM_Board

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lo-tech-8-bit-ISA-ROM-Card-for-8-Bit-ISA-Assembled-Working/274067986836?hash=item3fcfb99994:g:a1AAAOSw5wVds3zX

https://code.google.com/archive/p/xtideuniversalbios/