Cloning a Rare ISA Card to Use a Rare CD Drive

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  • picogus

    Emulation of ISA sound cards on Raspberry Pi Pico (GUS, Adlib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

  • The projects I mention here are not clones themselves but ever cheaper PCB prototypes and microcontrollers make it a fantastic time to create hardware for old systems (ISA). Enjoy!

    There is PicoGUS [0], a Gravis Ultrasound emulation, a Raspi Pico based PCMCIA WLAN card [1], EDO/FPM RAM modules [2], "Snark Barker", a soundblaster 1.0 clone [3]...

    If you want more electronics stuff, I suggest you follow the creators of these on Twitter.

    [0] https://github.com/polpo/picogus

    [1] https://www.yyzkevin.com/pcmcia-pico-w-card/

    [2] https://twitter.com/0xCats/status/1524708654913662977

    [3] https://github.com/schlae/snark-barker

  • CM153-Repro

    A reproduction of the Philips CM-153 LMSI controller

  • The card for the CD drive actually uses only stock logic chips but no microcontrollers at all and therefore need no ROM dump of an existing card to work.

    You can find the list on the Github page of the project:

    https://github.com/AkBKukU/CM153-Repro

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  • stm32-rs

    Embedded Rust device crates for STM32 microcontrollers

  • > (I threw out all my C/C++ books about 15 years ago - oops!).

    The future is here for STM32: https://github.com/stm32-rs/stm32-rs

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