Thread: 1995 Honda Civic Sedan EX - My First CarPC

Just a quick update, I am currently trying to set 800x480 resolution on my onboard vga card (Intel 815 based). The guys are being very helpful, very valuable tips on this thread.

I am installing TinyXP rev 5 on my CarPC (formatting). It means that I will rebuild from scratch. I've saved many folders to I wont lose all the previous job.

I did a quick test in VMWare and TinyXP is indeed very light. I hope it is compatible with the softwares I'll need to use.

Originally Posted by vladcarpc

Just a quick update, I am currently trying to set 800x480 resolution on my onboard vga card (Intel 815 based). The guys are being very helpful, very valuable tips on this thread.

It works! I am using 800x480 in my Lilliput 889GL.

More details in this post.

(edit: Project changed, this preview pictures are no longer valid. See page 4)


Hi there!

Today I took some pictures of the car, BEFORE INSTALLATION BEGINS!


This is my 95 Civic EX AT Sedan



This is where I think about installing the Screen. Will fabricate a console for it.



This is another view of my idea. Note that the screen will use the cup holder and ligher area.



This is where I think about installing the CarPC CPU. I am thinking about installing it on the top of the trunk, because the speakers are large and there is some space between them.
(edit: Changed the trunk layout, see another post on page 3)


I appreciate any feedback! Thanks!

Thanks!

Hello again, I am currently testing Destinator 6 for PCs. Its interface is much better! The next step will be integrate that with RoadRunner.

More information on this thread:
http://www.digital-car.co.uk/forum/s...ead.php?t=7114

Originally Posted by rodrigoratan

Hi Vlad, congratulations on your CarPC project progress!
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I'm starting the tests embedding D6 inside WPF
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Hope I can soon share my progress with you and other (few yet) brazilian CarPC users.

É muito bom encontrar cada vez mais brasileiros interessados no assunto!

Switching back to english

Are you using the destinator.exe (Destinator 6 for PCs) or the Destinator SDK? I followed that thread (see post above) with instructions on how to extract Destinator6 from Centrafuse 1.12, and it works perfect. Destinator6 has a much better GUI. Previsouly I was using Mapmonkey (that uses Destinator3 SDK).

So far the only "integration" I did was changing RR configuration to use "External" (instead of MapMonkey) and point to the destinator.exe.

See the thread I mentioned, there are some discussions about real integration efforts.

When you have time, create a worklog and post your project ideas.

Take care!

I decided to reformat and install TinyXP rev 05 again, and then try different settings on the Intel 815 driver.

The reason is that previsously the Intel IEGD driver trick I found in that thread (see post above) allowed me to use 800x480, but the image was distorted. So I installed PowerStrip to ajust the image (shrink in vertical), but its a commercial product, and before I have to buy it there is a chance it will work by adjusting reg keys that the driver installation reads before first boot.

The problem is that I think that these adjustments are only possible thru reinstallation of OS or driver, because it reads the registry keys after the setup completes before booting.

Will post here the .reg file if I find the correct values.

Here is some screenshots of my CarPC running Destinator 6 with Brazillian maps, running on RoadRunner (note BMV2 skin on the topbar) and using Destinator6 skin by Nomader (thanks!):




So far, the skin I liked best is DigitalFX 2.0, but I need to spend some time to make Destinator run in this skin.