Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era
h3ndrik@feddit.de 3 months agoThe M6117C also isn’t the original and not that old. Also the 8MB of RAM aren’t true to the original.
I’m not sure. I occasionally use emulation. And I think it’s fine. Unless you’re a speed runner and need everything to be exact to the frame timing, you won’t notice. Certainly not for a desktop UI like the Win 3.11 on the photo. I guess it depends on the use-case.
Something like an ESP32 can also be repaired, replaced, programmed and most of the things a different CPU architecture can do.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is actual compatible hardware though. And the opl chips etc are no longer made.
For myself emulation and FPGA are fine. But for speed running or any other number of things, actual hardware are important.
h3ndrik@feddit.de 3 months ago
Agreed. I think most prominently competitive gaming; development where you need to assure it later on actually works as intended on the target platform; and business stuff where parties are obliged by contract to guarantee something works flawlessly and keeps running that way - are good examples.
That laptop doesn’t look to me like it was intended to do any of that, so that’s maybe why I’m being a bit negative here. It’s cool and a nice idea, though…