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

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    4 months ago

    It is actual compatible hardware though. And the opl chips etc are no longer made.

    For myself emulation and FPGA are fine. But for speed running or any other number of things, actual hardware are important.

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      4 months ago

      Agreed. I think most prominently competitive gaming; development where you need to assure it later on actually works as intended on the target platform; and business stuff where parties are obliged by contract to guarantee something works flawlessly and keeps running that way - are good examples.

      That laptop doesn’t look to me like it was intended to do any of that, so that’s maybe why I’m being a bit negative here. It’s cool and a nice idea, though…

      (And we already have ARM-based retro machines, FPGA clones if popular processors available. So there is no need for them to do the exact same thing.)