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 2 weeks agoHave you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?
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 2 weeks agoHave you tried emulating it while interfacing with some ancient ISA card?
555_1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They sell ISA to USB adapter boards and you can tell the emulator to use the device.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Tell me you’ve never tried it without telling me you’ve never tried it.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m sure you’re the first to think of this! You’ll be rich!
555_1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let me Google that for you.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That will add extra latency from USB. Old programs are not likely to be very tolerant of that.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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.