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

Posted on 2024-04-09, 15:32

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ahmadexp wrote on 2024-04-09, 15:27: Here are the results from modifying the front panel to host the OLED display for the MT32-Pi Nice , going to do something similar, but also add buttons to be able to switch btw gm and Roland mt32 😀

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

Posted on 2024-03-04, 06:47

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I honestly don't see a reason the get anything more powerful running. If I understand this thing well enough, the CPU is the bottleneck. Only early 3D games are playable. I will agree, *Llama in my view is first of all for dos and some early-late win95/early win98 gaming pc anything faster then …

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

Posted on 2024-01-04, 21:16

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Update: Happy New Year everyone! I've finally completed shipping out all the boards for the October group buy. 🎉 Now, I have some good news and some bad. First, the bad - for everyone who was too late for the October group buy and has since sent me an email expressing an interest in joining a later …

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

Posted on 2024-01-02, 14:19

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Assembly partially completed. Left my multimeter at work during the holidays. Scared to power anything on until I test this aliexpress power supply. The case also patches the 120 volts to it and I'm worried I wired it backwards. Nice, waiting for my case, need to try to make a io plate also if no …

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

Posted on 2023-12-12, 10:36

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radivx wrote on 2023-12-12, 09:30: For those thinking of going for the Coolermaster NR200P. I am working on a 3D printable retro style kit for it based on the MACASE-cases: https://imgur.com/a/HE0CajI That is going on my normal pc! 😀 real nice 😀

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

Posted on 2023-12-05, 16:35

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alex.taras wrote on 2023-12-05, 14:54: Instead of modern cases, how about the checkmate cases? They have some pretty nice ITX amiga inspired cases. https://www.checkmate1500plus.com/Products.aspx?searchkey=6 True, my self i am a pc guy so would just be wrong :p Also I would say it is abit big 😉

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Replace DS12C887 Dallas chip

Posted on 2023-11-27, 14:52

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I know i can still buy the chip but would be nice to replace it with something like Necroware's NW12887 RTC module or equal, but what i do understand it is not the same as DS12887 as DS12C887 "it uses the century byte differently to a PS/2"? The DS12887 is not Year 2000 compliant, but of course PS/ …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-11-26, 17:37

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I ended up buying an extron 300 a RGB HDMI. It simply works, it scales everything on the fly, sharp, has no issue with different resolutions switching, nice menu and it adds audio to the HDMI output, it has everything. Best solution as of now after testing many other ones, it's also relatively …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-11-16, 15:12

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Well, my Fosmon VGA to Composite Converter just died, I figured I'd give a little review of it here and tell what's next. So my current setup is a late 2015 iMac 21.5" with a Amazon.com bought Composite/S-Video capture USB device, and I would feed my VGA machines into the composite device via a …

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

Posted on 2023-11-15, 07:38

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Im trying to make it small. This one looks nice and sturdy but only will support low profile video cards: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805842035237.html Nice, Should be fine as there is few low profiles so it shouldnt be any problem as there is no reason to overkill it with a big gpu anyway. …

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

Posted on 2023-11-14, 10:59

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Im thinking of Velkase Velka 3 case which i can mod the front panel to add mt32-pi display and buttons, with a external slim usb optical drive that has audio out so i can get cd audio from games that requires it and hopefully works both dos and windows which would allow me to run with sata ssd …

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

Posted on 2023-10-20, 20:42

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The Pi Zero W is widely available, but not the Zero 2 W. Per the project page "Pi Zero (original) and Pi 1 are unfortunately too slow (even with an overclock) and unsupported." Well i would say true before, not sure all countries but Europe did get big batches, here in Sweden it still a lot …

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

Posted on 2023-10-17, 13:37

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Im happy that i have saved some old slim cdrom drives as new once dont seem to have audio output.

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

Posted on 2023-10-16, 12:34

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How is the raspbarry input programmed? Is it done through dos? And is it a used code or a new code? Not quite sure I understand what you're asking. You mean how to get the mt32-pi firmware onto the Pi? In that case, it's just copying mt32-pi onto a blank SD card and insert it into the Pi. …

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

Posted on 2023-10-16, 07:22

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How is the raspbarry input programmed? Is it done through dos? And is it a used code or a new code?

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

Posted on 2023-10-15, 14:11

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Question ;) i saw there is headers for mt32-pi display, is there any headers buttons for changing between mt32 or gm? Unfortunately not, but since this can be controlled by sending SysEx messages, you can easily do it in software. Try the mt32-pi-control utility for DOS, for instance! Aha had no …

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

Posted on 2023-10-14, 17:31

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Question 😉 i saw there is headers for mt32-pi display, is there any headers buttons for changing between mt32 or gm?

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Re: HIDman - USB to PS/2 converter (Open Source)

Posted on 2023-03-15, 22:41

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Thanks, soon done with one for test, sadly I don’t read what i order so good so the cap was ordered as 0402 instead of 0603, there is no chance in hell I will try to solder those haha Nice! Yeah, 0402 is pretty small. I prefer 0603 or 0805 because they still have visible codes on them and are …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-08, 15:40

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@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- …

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Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)

Posted on 2023-03-03, 06:22

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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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