Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-09, 20:42

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by Deksor

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After I got home from my work I bought a SD card and started messing with it. I think the keyboard latency was lower using the SD card (to be verified). I tried to run a few benchmarks, but I noticed some strange shenaningans. 3DBench cannot be quit (I'm not sure if it was possible actually, or if …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-09, 10:35

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Oh by the way I used a usb drive as a boot device so that probably doesn't help (I don't have any free micro SD card at hand right now)

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-09, 10:04

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Today FedEx came in early (I expected them tomorrow but they came this morning so that's great) IMG_20221109_105428__01__01__01__01.jpg And it works first try :D IMG_20221109_105241__01.jpg Now there's a minor inconvenience, and I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue or software issue : when I first …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-05, 20:52

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by Deksor

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Well apparently DMP is sold out on the Vortex86EX SOM-128-EX. The SOM128EX-1G-86 version is still available though I guess it's victim of its success 😁

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-04, 15:33

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by Deksor

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Do you think the next revision could have USB C for power ? Getting high power from that is usually easier with that especially now (and in my experience the cables are more durable)

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-04, 00:37

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Another idea I've had which would still be pretty hard, but would probably integrate better with the raspberry pi : let it emulate CD-Rom tracks used in CD-Rom games. The issue is that we'd need a modified version of SHSUCDX that would somehow communicate with the rpi to select a track and tell it …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-03, 23:00

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by Deksor

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Another idea I've had which would still be pretty hard, but would probably integrate better with the raspberry pi : let it emulate CD-Rom tracks used in CD-Rom games. The issue is that we'd need a modified version of SHSUCDX that would somehow communicate with the rpi to select a track and tell it …

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Re: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2022-11-02, 23:42

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by Deksor

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Me too

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-02, 19:13

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Maybe a ESP or pi pico W solution could fit that use case, they're not out of stock like the rest and would make the thing less overkill :) Now having ethernet would be great to move files around, though moving files by SD card isn't as painful as doing it on a desktop PC due to the boot times and …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-11-02, 16:45

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Another thought I had even though I doubt it'd be easy to do at all : For ethernet maybe a solution could be to connect to the raspberry pi with some spi to ethernet adapter and then use the rpi as a router to WiFi. But the issue is that the rpi isn't running Linux so I doubt that's feasible easily …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-10-29, 23:59

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by Deksor

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By the way I don't see the files to build the case in the github. Did you just forget it or are you working on a better version ?

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-10-29, 14:09

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Thanks :) I haven't checked yet for shorts but it looks great visually. It was very fun to build. Oddly enough, the part that was the most annoying was soldering the caps, because I don't really have an appropriate pair of pliers at hand yet, the rest went very smoothly. I tried to contact them just …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-10-29, 13:40

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That's what I suspect and that's a bummer because I have no other bank 🙁

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2022-10-29, 13:19

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I have received my kit ! https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965548579001360414/1035901270801784862/IMG_20221029_131348.jpg After 3 hours of work, here it is almost fully assembled https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965548579001360414/1035901334798483536/IMG_20221029_145546.jpg https://cdn. …

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Re: Help with Gemlight GMB-386UMC , no post, no beep

Posted on 2022-10-13, 16:07

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by Deksor

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1.02 is the BIOS revision, not the board revision. I'm curious to know what was on the original bios if you could please dump it. There is apparently a rev 1.03 out there so maybe that's what you had ?

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Re: Drivers for Acer AcerNote Light 350P

Posted on 2022-09-18, 12:13

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by Deksor

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I'm not home right now. However if you're interested I can share it by P2P instead

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Re: The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

Posted on 2022-08-24, 09:45

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by Deksor

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Here is the EISA configuration utility from my Mylex MAE486-33 motherboard. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/mylex-mae486-25-33 Not sure if it belongs to drivers section or what but you cant use EISA cards on the motherboard without it. It seems to have support for some other Mylex …

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Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2022-08-18, 09:52

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by Deksor

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Truly if we could have that working from the get go, we would have added it by now. The current situation is a quick and dirty "fix" that tends to last a bit too long ... Also thanks for the support. I actually thought of renting something, but the issue is that they cost quite a bit here, I'm not …

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Re: Huge photo archive of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-17, 13:19

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by Deksor

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Well this is definitely going to be useful for us, thanks for sharing! 😀

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Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2022-08-17, 13:07

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by Deksor

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Can't speak for the others but in my case it's mostly personal reasons (to make it simple, I just moved out from my parent's house and now they're selling it so I have to move my collection from there and try to fit everything in a smaller flat. And since that can't be done, I have to get rid of …

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