• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The 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 of the CPU. Emulation almost always breaks this.

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            4 months ago

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

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                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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      i believe the use case is for old tech that require win95/dos …like interfacing with old science instruments