Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoThe point is not power but hardware compatibility. Emulation only goes so far and many, if not most, weird esoteric hardware systems from the 90s depended on idiosyncracies and strange usage of standard busses and weird interactions. Emulation almost always breaks this.
555_1@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve never had a problem emulating windows 95.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?
555_1@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Tell me you’ve never tried it without telling me you’ve never tried it.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sure you’re the first to think of this! You’ll be rich!
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.