#pocket386 clear case to be released in about 15 days @polpo #hand386 #book8088

#pocket386 has arrived! #book8088 #hand386

#book8088 #hand386 #retrocomputing Pocket 386 windows95/DOS
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mMevg8S

I’m happy to inform you all that there is a #book386 under development. It will be released soon. #book8088 #hand386 #retrocomputing #retrogaming

#book8088 #hand386 #vintagecomputing sounds like there is another project computer from China. The same developers of #book8088 and #hand386 I'm not sure why it was not released yet. Any ideas?

I cannot get my #Hand386 to detect a mouse... I tested all the connections from the PS/2 port to the ribbon cable and tried a couple different mice. The optical mouse I tried even lit up, but ctmouse.exe keeps reporting "device not found!"

I believe I had the mouse working for a bit, so I suspect this is more shoddy connections... I suspect I need a new keyboard/mouse interface and/or a new ribbon cable...

@nazokiyoubinbou @Javmaster I'm shure the #Book80806 and #Hand386 are commercial offerings of something someone propably cobbled together out of the need to maintain some old industrial stuff or so...

Unlike the #Wee86 and #WeeCee that #Rasteri built.

Also there are a feckton of 8086 clones and donor machines still in circulation....

The miracle #Hand386: it lasted all day at my table at #VCFMW yesterday playing demos with a #PicoGUS attached to it. I've always heard it draws more power than the power port can provide so it's always using the battery but it did fine for 14 hours! I kinda wonder if the IPS screen swap I did means it uses less power?

20 new #PicoGUS-es ready to sell at #VCFMW this weekend! This took a ridiculous amount of work. If they sell out I’ll probably make only one more batch and put it on Tindie - the “femto” PicoGUS that fits in the #Hand386 takes a lot of manual assembly work.

If anyone wondered if you can upgrade the Hand386 with a spinning-rust hard drive, yes, you can, but you'll have to remove the back case for it to fit in.

has anyone done a project for reverse engineering the PCBs of the Hand386?

I've been thinking of making a replacement keyboard for it, and I don't want to have to duplicate work if it's already been done

Anybody have a #hand386 and have never run ct.com or my handfix program to enable CRT mode? If yes, do you have an EEPROM programmer like a TL866 and an SOIC-8 clip? I'd love to get a dump of the LCD controller's flash chip in its factory state. Mine is *definitely* not in its factory state any more.

I've seen a lot of talk about the IPS mod for the #Hand386 and I gotta say... I'm not super interested. I want a mod to make the screen *worse*. I want a DSTN LCD mod. Just the fadest, ghostiest screen ever created with a -5 degree viewing radius.

I just completed "Spiral Memory" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2017 https://adventofcode.com/2017/day/3 #AdventOfCode in #VB6 on the #Hand386

the pressure to buy myself a #Hand386 which I absolutely do not need and could probably build myself from parts I have lying around is nevertheless growing unbearable

My video on the #PicoGUS #Hand386 edition is now complete! I dive in a bit more on the hardware side than in my previous videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUtMPxmKD8

Recording demos running on the #Hand386 for the video that I hope to release tonight...