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Not new, but a rabbit hole nonetheless.

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[–] mrkite 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clever. I've always said the most portable architecture ever is the NES. You can get emulators to run NES software on pretty much everything with a CPU in it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have the same opinion about MS-DOS. If you need more controls than A B Start Select then DOS gives you a full keyboard and mouse support, plus reasonably useful resolution like 640x480.

You can emulate DOS on any computer platform, including the web so people can use software in-browser with no effort. There are even DOS emulations on 100MHz+ microcontrollers like ESP32.

There are pre-made DOS cross-compilers for C so you don't need to learn assembly like you might with NES: https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp