Source: adafruit industries blog
Article note: Oh man, that's _delightful_ for playing with old laptops.
Modern Wifi, storage emulation including CD drives, all the things that are usually a hassle.
yyzkevin is launching an open source project to make a multifunction PCMCIA (later named PC) card for vintage computers. Details:
- This is a Type II, 5V, 16-bit PC Card designed for use in compliant PCMCIA sockets and should work in most devices.
- Built around the RP2350 and leveraging the ISA-like nature of the PCMCIA bus, this project benefits greatly from code interchangeability with other RP-based retro projects, most notably PicoGUS and PicoMEM.
- The card has an onboard wireless module containing the Infineon CYW43439, same as found on the Raspberry Pi Pico W. This allows the card to attach to modern Wi-Fi networks (2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n WPA2). It can then emulate an NE2000 adapter and/or a dialup modem.
- The card has an included Texas Instruments TLV320AIC3254 which calls itself a “Very Low-Power Stereo Audio CODEC with programmable miniDSP”.
- Emulation of intelligent mode MPU-401 is possible thanks to implementation done by PicoGUS base on SoftMPU/HardMPU.
- Sound Blaster emulation and the worlds first PCMCIA Gravis Ultrasound
- Emulated Panasonic MKE CD-ROM
- Storage Emulation
- The USB port for the RP2354 is made available on the external connector
