Compaq portable support - #74
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Updated this again to address some of the floppy weirdness. The Compaq Portable reads SW1 like the 5150 does, but the BIOS versions (at least C and above) ignore most of them. I've updated this pull request to treat them more like the 5150 block does, which is closer to what the Compaq documentation says they are for. I can boot from floppy with no errors now. Additional note for anyone who might want to test this under emulation, there's a bug/deficiency in 86box that doesn't set the SW1 switches correctly for the Compaq VDU and it will cause GLaBIOS to fail because it assumes there's a missing EGA or VGA card. You can still boot the the BIOS if you use a different video card. |
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Added support for the video mode switching hotkeys to match the stock Compaq BIOS:
TODO
I have this running on a real Compaq Portable. I would still consider this to be preliminary support, but it's good enough for me to leave in the machine.