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Re: Vortex86DX - A beastie of it's own (General info and discussion)

Posted on 2022-05-15, 14:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if someone could write a programm that could detect both L1\L2 cahce and disable them as needed, that would be awesome Are you still looking for a tool like this? I'm about to do some more vortex86 experiments and will develop such a tool if it's still necessary. I want to build a (probably) …

Re: Smallest Motherboard with ISA

Posted on 2022-05-11, 20:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks all! Rasteri, the picture of the MB you inserted in your post looks interesting, but I can't find a link to the supplier's website (ICOP?) Could you please send that link? I can't find it on icop's website either but the part number is VDX-6390, should be available from industrial computer …

Re: Smallest Motherboard with ISA

Posted on 2022-05-08, 22:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

it depends on what qualifies as a motherboard, really There are tiny processor-on-modules that have ISA but you'd need to build an adapter board or cable - https://www.icop.com.tw/product_list/40 PC104 has adapters already as Plasma stated (shameless plug - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46 …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-08, 14:22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

95OSR2 is actually slightly faster than 98 (0.7MB/sec when copying files rather than 0.5) but still far too slow. I couldn't get roadkil's speed test to run on 95 so I didn't test raw read speeds. Probing the SD card CLK signal while running roadkil's disk test gives a frequency of 50MHz on all OSs. …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-08, 09:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

(Edit: Reason I point this out is because it's essentially what I've seen a lot of the unofficial win98 packs kinda do - use Win2k/XP based system files in a Win98 build, because the interface between things didn't change, or is backwards compatible, meaning we could possibly just simply hack a 2k …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-07, 18:16

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Just tried XP, it's getting results on par with Linux (21MB/sec reads in roadkil's test), without even installing any special drivers (just the standard microsoft ones). So this appears to be a Win98-specific problem.

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-07, 15:48

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I've tried some initial speed tests. First sanity-check test was just to copy a 140MB file from SD card to the same SD card. Windows gets 0.5MB/sec, linux gets 7-9MB/sec, DOS (well, win98 DOS mode) gets 4-5MB/sec. As DOS uses real-mode drive access (right?) the slow speeds in Windows maybe aren't …

Re: Can I clone my CF C: drive like this

Posted on 2022-05-06, 10:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could also use a disk imager program (dd/etcher/win32diskimager etc) to clone the entire drive at once and not have to faff about with running sys/worring about hidden and system files/ etc

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-05, 09:05

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

As a test, have any of you tried a Linux or Windows XP installation to see if file system performance improves when using the official vendor driver? That's a fair point. I'll give XP/linux a go. I don't think it's running in SPI mode though - all four DAT pins are hooked up to the SoC and only two …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-04, 14:25

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

quicker or not, does it still do a total stall of a few seconds every few seconds when you FTP transfer a large file to the weeCee? Not tried FTP but I'm still getting write stalls extremely regularly when copying files HD->HD. Probably this driver has made no difference. In fact if you go to …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-04, 12:19

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

So I managed to hack the Windows XP Embedded Vortex86 IDE drivers to work on Windows 98. I have no idea if they are any faster or anything, but at least the yellow exclamation mark is gone... drivers attached. I'll do more testing EDIT : doesn't seem any quicker TBH, and I'm still getting the …

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-04-30, 08:50

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

ViTi95 wrote on 2022-04-26, 16:10: IBM Monochrome Display Adapter I wonder how far it would be possible to improve this. Like would attempting to recreate the shape of the level geometry using the MDA's "graphical" characters be feasible? EDIT : or at least, using the block graphics characters to …

Re: Microsoft enters “final phase” of disabling SMB1 file-sharing in Windows 11

Posted on 2022-04-23, 13:57

in Windows

in Windows

To be honest I've always found SMBv1 to be pretty flaky on Windows 10, at least when acting as a server. I switched to using samba in a VM a long time ago

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-04-17, 20:01

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nikita Lita wrote on 2022-04-17, 03:24: Whatever happened to the Vortex86EX? Vortex86 series benchmarks

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-04-11, 13:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

These work really well, sits on top of the gameport. Just need a 3mm hole drilled 5mm above the MicroSD card, and yeah. Gonna fit a resistor to it and wrap it in heat shrink, make it look all nice. Pretty simple model to make and print. Looks great! I wonder if there'd be space anywhere for a power …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-03-31, 17:10

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

have you tried on a new windows install?

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-03-19, 12:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yeah we've officially reached my "don't care" threshold on this again 😀 However I've been emailing with some ICOP people, I'll mention it to them and see if they have any ideas.

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-03-18, 13:18

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Damn it, I know I said I wasn't interested in fixing this but.... Apparently, that controller is also compatible with the ITE Tech IT801x series, specifically the IT8011 or IT8012. Yeah I found the docs that say the IDE controller is an IT8011 - I can't find anything about that chip. Could it …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-02-27, 12:31

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I didn't mean a tiny windows gaming PC isn't't technically possible, it's just that using an vortex86 module would not be the way to go about it. There are already small motherboards with PCI slots that would make a much better base for a 3D accelerated mini PC, some even have onboard acceleration. …

Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-02-26, 11:58

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yeah I'm not massively interested in perfecting windows support, in my mind it's a DOS gaming machine that uses Windows 98 as a launcher. A true Windows 98 gaming machine would need 3D acceleration and that's never gonna happen.

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