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Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-04, 22:35

Wow great work! So just a small catch. New SATA optical drives that I have looked at lack the analog audio out. But every IDE drive has it (and sometimes headphone jack too!). So might have to use an IDE-to-SATA adapter with an IDE optical drive so you have the analog audio connector for DOS.

Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-04, 14:50

Yes that's not much. Is the mini SD card recognized as fixed or as changeable disk? Fixed disk, primary IDE channel. I have yet to try it out, but according to the Vortex86EX datasheet the SATA port is presented as the secondary IDE channel. Very interesting! So adding an sata optical drive to this …

Re: ITX-Llama

Posted on 2023-05-03, 15:26

A couple of thoughts. Does it need a full 24-pin ATX connector? Or is that only for part availability? Just wondering if you can use a 20 or 24pin pico-psu with this like other ITX boards I have used. Any possibility of an front headphone jack header? USB header for a front panel jack? I would be …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-04-22, 00:23

On the TinyLlama, and Vortex86EX, is it possible to have a disk activity LED? I looked at the schematics for the SOM and didn't see anything. Unsure if anything can be mapped to unused pin for that purpose. Thanks I've been looking into that myself. Unfortunately I haven't found any good solution, …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-08, 16:28

@RayeR: Thanks! :) @Aaron707: I whipped up a design for the wavetable adapter, this has room for both the pi zero 2 + the GY-PCM5102 module and the wavetable board. Added a switch to toggle between them. I haven't received the actual S2 to test with yet, but here's where I'm at: Screenshot 2023-03- …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-08, 01:46

Thought I would share a link to the cards I have tested with TinyLlama, feel free to add anything to it. I still think the original vortex vga card is pretty decent for DOS era gaming and for the small TinyLlama PC is pretty much ideal. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-07, 00:22

I will try it later tonight hopefully, need to setup a linux machine or VM to compile the BIOS for my V1.1 board. I'll build it and DM you. Don't want it floating around here as it'll render systems with the Vortex86VGA module useless. Thanks for the BIOS! Unfortunately it did not resolve the issue …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-06, 22:15

Yes here is the thread where I found the utility Wfflash (attached to first post). I was trying to figure out why my dead GF MX200 PCI worked with the Tiny Llama and no where else. There are some other utilitys that can dump VGA BIOS in DOS as well. ELSA Synergy II -32 PCI: No VGA output - BIOS bit …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-06, 18:40

I bought AST1300 too, and have had the same experience so far. The card often crashes on a resolution above 640x480. In Quake instantly after a couple of milliseconds. Compared with Vortex VGA, it's just slightly faster, about 10%, at least in Quake. Below are measurements taken from Quake (1.06). …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-01, 17:35

Only the original waveboards need the 12v. All of the newly created ones run on 5v. Here is the simple adapter that was made to just use the gameport for modern waveblaster boards. And that port only has 5V on the pins: https://www.serdashop.com/CHiLLandPhilAdapter so sounds pretty doable, maybe …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-01, 15:48

Just a quick thought. With the shortage of Raspberry Pi Zero 2 boards (at least here in USA). Would it be possible to make a small adapter to connect a Waveblaster board to the crystal chip for midi tunes? I have a couple waveblaster boards from Serdashop and was thinking how great it would be to …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-01-25, 01:01

The new board and case looks great! Its the complete package now. Looking forward trying both out. I tried out a bunch of different PCI graphics cards for fun. A few worked OK and some had the exact same freezing issue with 640x480 and above resolution in games like quake and duke3d that I saw on …

Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-01-09, 18:42

Purchased one of the AST1300 miniPCIe cards to try out or use as a spare. It shows on the system as: AST1300/2300 VGA True Color Graphics and Video Accelerator VBIOS Version 0.93.08 DRAM Size: 64MB It works good and shows 50FPS (1484 realtics) in doom benchmark. And 32FPS in Quake benchmark. And …

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