this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
114 points (94.5% liked)

RetroGaming

19662 readers
602 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Xylinna@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
gts@lemmy.world
114
$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by DrGiltspur@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Couldn't this be done with an FPGA?

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah. There's the ao486 core available on MiSTer.

There's also the PCem (as well as forks 86Box and PCBox) software emulators which are excellent ways of emulating old PCs.

But emulation (regardless of whether hardware or software) is not the same experience as real hardware, especially when it comes to PCs. There is the tinkering with hardware, the process of building the PC, the satisfying click of the power button and turbo button, using floppy disks, trying to get it online, etc.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Probably. Even including the RAM on chip and the rest of the mainboard, too. Take a modern flash chip, and you can emulate a vintage sized HDD with it.