This seems like an excellent use of a vintage PC: building a dedicated NES emulator. It's basically the same idea as the homemade MAME cabinet, but cheaper. dosman built a custom adapter (using a destroyed
NES Four Score) that allowed him to attach NES controllers to vintage 486 PC, then connected a
NES Satellite to the system. Now he can play archived
NES games using a wireless controller! How
novel! We don't want to argue about the legality of emulation (we're not going to look into whether or not he owns the original cartridges, etc.) because we prefer to focus on
how cool the whole project is. The 486 is
just powerful enough to run
Nesticle (itself a vintage program), and somebody
finally figured out a reason for both the Four Score and the Satellite to exist.
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