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Providing one had enough knowledge of the protocol the drive was using, would it have been possible to not recreate the ISA card and make the drive functional u

Providing one had enough knowledge of the protocol the drive was using, would it have been possible to not recreate the ISA card and make the drive functional using software emulation? (Obviously, one would need some kind of hardware interface to the drive.) BUt would it have been possible to use a more modern hardware interface and then do the rest in software?

gattilorenz 4y ago
Sure, if you have the documentation you could connect it to a parallel port (assuming it’s quick enough and level compatible) and write a device driver compatible with MSCDEX, but that’s also no easy task