Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-12-27, 15:25
Speaking of which, I want to experiment something so I've bought mini PCIe to PCIe adapter and PCIe to pci adapter, I wonder if it'd work 🤣 Wish me luck 😃
Re: Mitac MSC-242 Isa motherboard manual / jumper settings?
Posted on 2022-12-12, 07:55
sparcie wrote on 2022-05-30, 14:32: Hi, Sorry for ressurecting a dead thread, but i have been given both a MSC-242 and MSC-262 (among other stuff) WITH manuals. Are you still interested in a copy? Too bad I didn't see that earlier. Sure I am interested!!
Re: FIC PA-2000 Manual and photo
Posted on 2022-12-08, 23:23
It depends of the CPU revision as well. Here's the pentium 100 SX960 https://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SX/SX960.html asking 3.45V Now this wasn't super useful as most CPUs indeed work fine at 3.3V. The AMD K5 was one of the only CPUs designed for 3.5V iirc.
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-12-02, 21:35
The price has increased quite a bit though, it went from 38$ to 55 ! Can't wait to see what's coming for rev 2 😁
Re: Pentium MMX overclock - Does it affect it's lifespan?
Posted on 2022-12-02, 20:49
It will decrease the lifespan so it will die within 2 hours - 300 years, give or take a century. Be careful! This. While the lifespan reduction is definitely real, depending on the overvoltage or overheating (or both), the lifespan you loose might be negligible. Someone I know found a Pmmx in the …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-12-02, 17:38
Not exactly, but it'd be more useful than what I suggested but in the meantime maybe this could be done
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-12-02, 15:02
Something I thought about was : what if we made the opposite of a passive usb to ps/2 adapter : making a passive ps/2 to usb adapter ? By that I mean that we could select between usb and ps/2 signalling over an usb port via a jumper and when set to ps/2, the usb port isn't a real usb port anymore …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-12-02, 14:30
Windows 98 should get away with usb hid peripherals on its own. Now I'm not sure if it's possible to disable the emulation while running windows 98 ...
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-21, 10:11
They probably had a sudden increase of sales for these 🤣
Re: Help! Need file from old Acer's FTP for my vintage computer.
Posted on 2022-11-21, 10:10
I have been told that a zip archive would have been better as you can browse the files individually and ... I have to agree, so I did it again and uploaded it as a zip instead of tar 😀 Here's the new link ! 😀 https://archive.org/details/acer-euro-ftp-backup-zip
Re: Help! Need file from old Acer's FTP for my vintage computer.
Posted on 2022-11-17, 08:43
Hi ! After 2 years of trying, I finally managed to upload my entire archive of Acer's European FTP to archive.org !! It took 4 entire days https://archive.org/details/acer-euro-ftp-backup Feel free to download 😁
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-13, 21:20
Great ! As I said I'll try it back tomorrow 😀
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-13, 20:30
I don't have the time for today anymore, but I can try that tomorrow if you want. Another solution, which would require more work, could be to save the locale in the BIOS maybe ? So keyb wouldn't be needed at all 18.2 times/sec sounds suspiciously close to the default PIT timing. I don't think you …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-13, 20:04
I've uploaded a new BIOS build where I've disabled the INT 15h, 4F keyboard "hook" and turned off as many debug print statements as possible - hopefully that'll help somewhat with keyboard lag. Please test and see what you think? I think it made a difference in the DOS prompt at least, haven't done …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-13, 19:38
I don't have much experience with demos, but if I understand correctly they often use more or less undocumented hacks/tricks to squeeze the last drop of performance out of a system, making them pretty fuzzy about the specific hardware they run on? Again, I'm not surprised the TinyLlama isn't the …
Re: Help! Need file from old Acer's FTP for my vintage computer.
Posted on 2022-11-12, 14:40
Here are the files https://www.mediafire.com/file/dey71v9xuzpwas … te_210.zip/file
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-12, 13:58
Great ! I'm pretty confident the CRT would work with another video card, it's a simple one with no digital controls of whatever. I haven't really it on another machine, but I did test it in dosbox, and although it was glitchy (which I kinda expected), it didn't look anywhere as bad as this. To me it …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-12, 12:47
More tests ! So I wanted to see what the video card was capable of (or rather incapable of), so I was recommended by Scali Bohemiq to test a demo named "Kukoo2" because it makes intensive uses of the raster bars You can grab it here https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=1444 Source code and build …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-11, 16:32
Something I thought about too, to upgrade older boards : what about making a 2nd pcb (only for the older boards, newer revs would include everything as is) with the same connectors as the 86duino so it can be sandwiched between the 86duino and the main PCB to add more functionalities ? I doubt …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-10, 08:54
Hm, yeah either that or integrating @rasteri's HIDman solution (having the CH559 chip do the USB->PS/2 translation). What's you guys' take on this? I figure it's better to be able to use modern keyboard/mice than real PS/2 devices, but I might be in the minority about this? This sounds good enough …
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