• CPU: KR580VM80A (i82xx clone) 2MHz
• RAM: 64k + 64k (video RAM)
• Video: 384 x 256, 4 colors
• Palette: 4 shades of red, green, blue, and 4 grayscale for black and white monitor
• Sound: Built in speaker, 32 Hz - 48 kHz

MESS supports two different hardware configurations for the Bashkiria-2M:

• b2m [BNPO Bashkiria-2M]
• b2mrom [BNPO Bashkiria-2M with ROM-disk module]

Both drivers currently support two floppy drives for .cpm disk images, corresponding to devices “floppydisk1” (flop1) and “floppydisk2” (flop1).

These systems require full keyboard emulation to work correctly. At startup, full keyboard emulation mode is enabled by default. Whilst in full keyboard emulation mode, some key associated functionality may be disabled (like the ESC key for EXIT). The keyboard emulation mode is toggled using the “Scroll Lock” key (by default).

The emulation of this system is Preliminary.

Bashkiria-2M was one of the many computers created between the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s to fulfill the needs of Russian schools and hospitals which were looking for cheap computer systems.

It was the second product of BPNO, a small manufacturer located in Bashkiria (now Republic of Bashkortostan), after the not-so-successful ARM-SHK Bashkiria.

(info based on bashkiria-2m.narod.ru, roughly translated from Russian)

• Bashkiria-2M page
• Bashkiria-2M at Home Computer Museum

• EMU
• Emulator 3000