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$69 in 2026 Gets You a Tool to Rejuvenate Old Computers (itsfoss.com)

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If you have been warming up to the idea of owning physical media or preserving your existing collection before it fades away, then PicoIDE should interest you.

The work of Polpotronics, this is an open source IDE/ATAPI emulator meant to replace aging tech like CD-ROM drives and hard disks. If you don't know what those are, you probably weren't around back then. ☠️

The job of the PicoIDE is quite simple; it can take in disk images (e.g., ISO, .bin/.cue, .vhd) from microSD cards and present them to your vintage computer as real IDE hard drives or ATAPI CD-ROM drives.

https://picoide.com/

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The CD audio output even works with mixed-mode discs that have redbook audio tracks, which software emulators can't handle, they add.

Why can’t emulators handle them?

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In old computers, CD audio worked by physically connecting an audio cable between the optical drive and the sound card. PC emulators can emulate this, but it's more complicated for CD emulators running on a real computer.

[–] lambalicious 2 points 2 days ago

core memory unlocked

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

They're scared of them