ITX Llama

[yoshi41]

Not really a MiSTer topic, but very interesting to play DOS & Win9x games...

ITX Llama - MiSTer FPGA Forum

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Even updates are available again...

Windows Update Restored: Update Windows 95, NT 4.0, 98, Me, 2000, and XP the old way!

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[Cousin_Itt]

is there a benefit to tinkering with this vs buying/building a 233mmx time machine? I'm just curious since the llama only has a pseudo-agp slot and wavetable headers for semi-modern sound cards. If I truly wanted to go non-time period correct, I'd just invest in a pentium 4 or pentium 3 setup and call it a day.

 

[yoshi41]

Well, this is new hardware, apart from the gfx card. I kept some of my old PCs and Unix workstations. They all died at some time (hdd, embedded batteries, caps etc.). The only survivor so far is an OQO Model 02 with Win XP (only the battery is dead). Maybe some of them could be repaired, but it's a pain (at least for me).

This piece of hardware boots fast, does not have a hdd and the clock speed (+cache) can be changed easily in the BIOS. I would say ideal for DOS/Win9x.

Sound is very decent...

And the performance (even with non-native AGP support) seems to be good enough...

Nevertheless, it's not cheap and I'm not sure whether I really need one.

Products

Introducing the ITX-Llama, a retro-inspired x86 motherboard designed for those passionate about late-DOS and early Windows 98 systems. This compact system delivers performance comparable to a Pentium 233, making it ideal for vintage applications. Extras include OPL3 module, MT32-Pi and preloaded...

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MiSTer, VMs and DOSBox might be good enough for me.

 

[Cousin_Itt]

I'll read and watch reviews for the llama. I must be too nostalgic for old ISA and Pci cards. But I guess for gaming only, this is pretty straight forward. I think the only thing preventing me from jumping on this is the $300 just for the itx board, not including everything else.