jmarsh wrote on 2023-12-13, 03:07:
Have you seen this thread? Mini ISA ROM Card
No, I hadn't but that looks to be about a perfect option for getting XTIDE if I needed to. It even looks like things could be pushed together a bit more vertically to take even less height.
DEAT wrote on 2023-12-13, 06:13:
The shortest ISA VGA card that you will find are those with the Realtek RTG3105 (or RTG3105ieh, or RTG3105e) chipset:
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The biggest problem with them is that despite having 16-bit ISA connectors, almost all of the time they only have traces to the 8-bit pinouts so their performance is bad, but on the flip side it might be a good card for seeing how far you can go with optimisations.
I actually do have someone sending me one of those. Yeah, it's basically an 8-bit card, but I'm going to play around with it. Maybe for 8-bit cards, we just say 30fps is good enough instead of 60fps. I do know that it is possible to get a vertical blanking interrupt from these cards, so that helps a lot.
Now, if somebody knows of a super short AUDIO card, then there is the possibility that with the super short IDE, super short (8-bit) VIDEO, and super short AUDIO, I could plug all of those in without ANY horizontal adapters which would be so much cleaner. Even if the super short sound card is something simpler like a tandy 3-voice, that combined with mixing in some effects from the pc speaker, I might be able to do a passable recreation of gameboy sound. (But to be honest, emulating gameboy sound is the part I understand the least.) If nobody knows of a similarly short audio card here, I might make a post in the audio hardware forum.
Jo22 wrote on 2023-12-13, 07:25:Ah, sorry, my bad. I've thought I've edited the post properly and added the link. :sweatdrop:
Here it is, with the photo: Re: Sc […]
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Ah, sorry, my bad. I've thought I've edited the post properly and added the link. 😅
Here it is, with the photo: Re: Schneider Tower AT and XT-CF-Lite 4.1
Meanwhile, I've changed the DOM for a CF adapter, also.
But the basic idea is still the same (using the slimline IDE card).
Thanks. Yeah, I've got a bunch of 512MB CF cards I got a while back for $1 each. They're great because they're fast, pretty big, yet fit below the 520MB limit on old computers .