Comment on $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era

• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?

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  • 555_1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.

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    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell me you’ve never tried it without telling me you’ve never tried it.

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    • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure you’re the first to think of this! You’ll be rich!

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      • 555_1@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Let me Google that for you.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.

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      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        also most of those USB adapters likely won’t support true hardware switch interrupts, Direct Memory Access, or raw bus control to talk to other cards, which almost every special ISA card actually needs at least one of these to function.

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