PC Monitor and 8086 Training Kit

of cause you can use displany card to drive your monitor.

What type of card do you use? you can find it from DOS 2.0 --6.0 versoon. just use int 10 for your display command call.

if your kit has a bios, you can find it as well in it.

My training kit is simple. There is no BIOS or so. It has small keypad and small LCD display. It can be programmed with assmebly language only. Its good because all system busses are available to the output, as well as a PPI ports.

The idea is to get a PC monitor (such as VGA) and make it the diplay of the kit instead of the LCD display. I think that the video card that will be used between the kit and the monitor must be programmed from scrach.

Thanks for the reply

Im afraid its a rather complex. you hve to design a display card by your self.

making up you mind which control IC you will use, then progamming it. in the old pc machine, the card use motorola MC6845(? I remember) as control IC, you connect it from your PPI (8155 or 8255?) and a character generator etc. then a simple amplifier to monitor.

programming is not a difficult task but have to take carefully.

I suggest you'd better buy one on the market

The idea is for final year project, computer engineering student. If it is so difficult, I may go around it. Thanks again.

it depends on you goal.

draw a diagram, connect wire from cpu to display card is not difficult. programming for the gpu is not difficult if yoiu have patient. but if you wish to make a pcb completely, maybe trouble. I suggest you buy an old card and then draw a bus link.(interface).