Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-10-14, 00:30

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by Deksor

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I just stumbled across this : https://chinese.alibaba.com/product-detail/PCIe-Mini-VGA-Card-Full-GD-1600907769076.html It's yet again the same GD-750 mini pcie video card, but it seems to be in stock and available for a good price. The only issue is that it's alibaba and not aliexpress, making it …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!

Posted on 2023-10-12, 12:35

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For the W9x programs that might benefit from 1gb of ram I think the CPU would be too slow. If the CPU is comparable to a pmmx 233, most of those machines ran happily with 64mb only so this is already "overkill" Maybe if you plan on running XP this could be an issue, but it's probably not the right …

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Re: Intertan DT-88 restoration (Late Tandy subsidiary 8088 clone)

Posted on 2023-10-09, 08:29

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Maybe you have a different bios revision? Could you please dump it ? 😀

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Re: Intertan DT-88, late 8088 clone. Cmos setup woes

Posted on 2023-10-09, 08:26

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Is there any floppy disk that came with the computer ? If so, please make a copy of it :D Also I wanna see pictures of the box/manuals as this is a very rare occasion for me to get more infos about this machine. In the meantime, yes I'd agree to check that the RTC works correctly first. I think it …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-10-06, 14:39

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@Deksor rloew did write an AHCI driver for both DOS and Win9x for the more modern SATA3 controllers that use the AHCI protocol pretty much exclusively at this point, with the sole exception of a PCIE JMicron card that can be flashed back to IDE mode. I would say that rloew's AHCI drivers is …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 21:47

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No, they don't need OS drivers to work in DOS, they have a BIOS :D If they come with the raid ROM, they'll need to be flashed with another ROM to function under w9x (there are some threads on vogons) As for win9x, I think it does actually write quite a lot to the flash, considering there is a swap …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 17:44

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There's no need to be sorry, it's your project, take ideas you like, reject those you don't like :D For sata though I know that some boards do disable sata or pcie depending on what's already connected on the board. This is probably done on a chip level so your concerns are probably valid. As for …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 13:16

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No I haven't made much progress since sadly :( I need to make some progress in the software side, but dos TSR and low level CD-ROM handling is kind of a lost art, and I would really appreciate any form of deeper documentation explaining what I'm actually reading 😅 As for m.2, maybe a good compromise …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-10-02, 11:52

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You should checkout windows 98 quickinstall as well https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=92136 It allows for win98 installation from USB among other things. In the meantime I thought of something, maybe you thought of it and already know if it's feasible or not : I know that ide is pretty much …

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Re: Help! Need file from old Acer's FTP for my vintage computer.

Posted on 2023-09-27, 15:52

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You're welcome ! However you may want to look into the .zip version, you can browse it directly via ia's web interface 😀

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Re: Toshiba T1800 386 Laptop

Posted on 2023-08-15, 16:11

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Put them on archive.org 😀 I don't have mine anymore, but I'm totally pro preservation of such things. Maybe also a picture of the ram expansion as those seem to be rather rare and I'm not sure there's any pictures of it on the web.

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-08-06, 20:01

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No that's not the issue, the issue is that SHSUCDHD emulates a CD-Rom drive as we know, and SHSUCDX uses it. Then when a game (let's say quake) wants to play an audio track, it first makes sure it's there. With a physical CD that has a bin/cue burned to it, it'll report all the tracks the CD has. …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-08-06, 19:19

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I made another *interesting* discover, which is really annoying ... SHSUCDHD only supports .ISO files (which makes sense) and thus doesn't expose any track data to programs willing to use the CD-Rom ... Therefore they never ask the CD-Rom drive for tracks that don't actually exist.

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-08-06, 14:09

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I'm not too sure, while there are many cheap AGP cards that can be grabbed for next to nothing, the CPU won't really make a good use of them I think Also maybe I'm misremembering, didn't you want to leave the mini pcie video card as an option ? Because then that would mean you could use the PCI slot …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-08-05, 00:12

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Yeah I don't plan to make this specifically power efficient (I'm not even sure it'd be realistic), so external power will be mandatory. Even though for serial mice, this guy made a very nice serial to USB adapter which is pico based that do actually work with just the serial port ! https://www. …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-08-04, 22:40

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I bought the parts right after I wrote the post, should arrive somewhere next week. I guess I can look through SHSUCDX' code this weekend. I'll be away during the week after, so I guess I'll really be able to work on this idea by the end of the month. For baby AT computers and some ATX motherboards …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-08-04, 14:01

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For the CD audio issue, I have a dumb and "easy" solution I think. It would require to mod shsucdx (it's open source so it must not be too hard) and have it redirect the audio track requests to somewhere else, such as a serial port, and then on a serial port, connect a rpi pico with a DAC and SD …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-07-31, 21:18

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I didn't know about this and it looks quite sick, however there's a big drawback : no CD audio out either, so the only thing it brings is being able to boot from virtual CDs (and floppy disks). I do wonder if it's possible to hook up a sata cd-rom drive here, some may still have audio jacks or at …

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-07-31, 14:50

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ahmadexp wrote on 2023-07-31, 01:18: I have been thinking about a hardware based virtual CD that does the job of SHSUCDX. Would you guys think that would be a useful thing for the Tiny Llama project? It would be more useful than just for this project, especially if it's affordable 😃

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Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard)

Posted on 2023-07-09, 13:18

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What about using therasteri's method of getting a PCB made (like he did for the weeCee) ? Make a PCB with the shape of an ATX I/O shield. You could even use the silkscreen to write what port does what 😁

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