Add an ISA slot to Modern Motherboards!

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  @absalomdraconis · 3 years ago

  A note for future experiments: the LPC bus has lately been supplemented with a mostly compatible serial version, and converter chips apparently <i>do</i> exist.

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• WA

  @wasabinator · 3 years ago

  &quot;Forwarded to the disappointment&quot;. The story of my life. Amazing work.

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• MR

  @Mrig12000 · 11 months ago

  Not even 10 seconds in and I have a new wallpaper for my computer 😂

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• _A

  @_arkhea · 3 years ago

  Just so you know: This has opened a lot of opportunities for game conservation for an obscure korean arcade rhythm game.<br><br>I don&apos;t know if this will get submerged by other comments but this is an absolute godsend. You see, ISA has been used by a specific arcade game to plug the I/O board, which controls a bunch of lights, buttons, and encoders. This has been a MAJOR problem for sourcing computers compatible both with the IO card and the software in the modern era, because you always had to get really weird used exotic hardware from chinese vendors so you could run a somewhat power-intensive game on a windows XP install (w98 on older releases) on something with that slot. You can obviously imagine the hassle of finding hardware that doesn&apos;t suck power-wise with such requirements. <br><br>THIS, however. <br>I know people with this cabinet that have had the issue. Working further on compatibility and testing on your design, if i can manage to run a semi-modern motherboard with this as a bridge to the IO card and not have latency issues, it&apos;s a breakthrough in conservation of this title, which has always been an issue since a PCI equivalent of the IO does not exist.<br>So, if this works (and even if it doesn&apos;t) you can pat yourself on the back because god damn, you just gave us an exit for this issue.

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• BO

  @boelwerkr · 3 years ago

  There are more than DOS gamer that could be interested in that. CNC, &nbsp;laboratory and medical equipment came sometimes with custom ISA controllers and DOS software.

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• KR

  @kreuner11 · 3 years ago

  The Quake thing may be a PSU issue, most modern ones don&apos;t provide -5v and I heard that&apos;s problematic for older sound cards

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• VI

  @viscountalpha · 1 year ago

  I actually had an argument with my boss that this was still the case.

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• AB

  @absalomdraconis · 3 years ago (edited)

  For any DOSBox devs that&apos;re reading, it would be nice if DOSBox had support for ISA bus forwarding, so that instances could be attached to those ISA-over-USB devices. We eventually could have multi-seat DOS gaming running off a single machine.

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• 1B

  @1BitFeverDreams · 3 years ago

  Another brilliant hit. I anticipate that in a few years, you could have an abomination of a PC having a really fast uncompromising core with ancient parts for everything, running all IBM compatible software from 1981 to 2xxx, the ultimate sleeper PC.

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• MA

  @MainAvel · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=putHMSzu5og&amp;t=353">5:53</a> &quot;now the first thing to do is get a hold of a disappointment&quot;<br><br>Cool! <b>grabs self</b>

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• LI

  @liquefactor · 3 years ago

  this is incredible. i have wanted an isa soundcard in my newer pc for so long for basically this usecase along with getting things like adlib tracker ii to work with real hardware. having it available in linux would also just be absolutely perfect. please keep going. i can&apos;t be the only person who would buy this the moment u put them up for sale

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• MI

  @mix3k818 · 3 years ago

  I know it&apos;s a play on the ISA shortcut, but calling this Project Disappointment isn&apos;t the greatest. It does exactly what it&apos;s supposed to do. That sounds more like Project Well Done

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