News DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU

[Admin]

A DOS enthusiast built a mini-ITX DOS PC based on the Vortex86EX.

DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU : Read more

 

[DesertPanther]

For those who do not want to bother with soldering: we are working on a community group buy that will get started soon, The discord link and Google Forms link can be found on the 30th page of the VOGONS official ITX-Llama post
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1293636#p1293636

 

[cuvtixo]

Sorry, but looking through the thread, the complications of hardware, including possible new ones such as the CD-audio business, maybe an FPGA route would be better? I guess ao486 still needs work, and Intel Quartus 17.0 needs to be installed in a docker container now, and I don't even have a MiSTer myself(yet?). The expense of Nuxt 2.0 (out of stock anyways) and end of MTM Scientific 8088 clone... Running old DOS on new hardware seems to be a dream slipping away... excuse me I guess Pocket 8088 is still a thing and growing. Pocket 386 is around, too.

 

[ezst036]

Wouldn't emulation be better/easier?

I do like the concept of this enthusiast ITX board, but I'd want to see one with either an ARM or RISC-V chip on board.

 

[bit_user]

I do like the concept of this enthusiast ITX board, but I'd want to see one with either an ARM or RISC-V chip on board.

There are some of each, but nothing terribly high-performance. I think the best ARM you can get on mini-ITX is either a RK3588 (via Firefly or Latte Panda) or maybe MediaTek Genio 1200.

There are some RISC-V mini-ITX boards as well, but I haven't tried to keep track of them so much. I'm pretty sure nothing as fast as those ARM SoCs, just yet.

It'd be nice to have Snapdragon X on a mini-ITX, or whatever the MediaTek counterpart will be.