Connect your ISA cards on a modern motherboard with TPM module

[DC1MC]

https://www.hackster.io/news/andy-rasteri-tait-brings-isa-back-with-a-bang-by-abusing-the-tpm-slot-on-modern-motherboards-9dac2cf3162a

[coromonadalix]

WUUUUUUT wow

[SiliconWizard]

Relatively useless, but fun.

[Tony_G]

Hmmm - I currently have a DolchPac that I worked up to provide me the ability to run some old HP software that expects a specific ISA HPIB card to be in the machine - It'd be interesting to see if I could use a way smaller industrial PC to run that stuff on occasions when I need to.

Thanks for highlighting it.

[coromonadalix]

there is or was some

usb to isa adapters

pci to isa adapters

Some old hp gear had this  pci to isa bridge chip  cant remember the part number, i think i have an pci to isa board somewhere loll

[edpalmer42]

Even if this card solves the hardware side, you still need drivers.  Note that the original article specified that the Sound Blaster was running under DOS.  The closest thing to 'useful' would be if it worked in a VM.

[m k]

Yes, i/o commands are the key.

With real thing it goes straight through, but with newer systems there will be an exception, so something must be present and handle that exception.
Finally exact i/o command is executed but before that the security level must change to correct level and address of the command reroute through the new hardware.

With straight through software it would be less than extremely painful to change all i/o commands directly to memory mapped things that new hardware can understand and new system accepts without any exceptions, but all kind of scrambling styles of old times will most likely drop that less than part off the table.