• golli@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    Mini PCs with a n100 or used office PCs are probably not that much more expensive and a much better alternative, if your goal is to run windows on them and you don’t already have the Raspberry Pi lying around.

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    12 hours ago

    Seems like a pointless exercise.

    If anything, it would be more interesting to run a full x86 emulator to install Windows 98 / Windows XP to run older games. There are games that work better on native Windows 98 than via compatibility mode on W10.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      11 hours ago

      I just saw a short of someone running an instance of XP on an esp32 chip. Dunno how well it actually worked cause it was just thirty seconds of an error message repeating. But I would love to play some old games with <1 watt of power.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      The pi 5 is a lot more powerful than you’d expect. At least when cooled properly.

      I wouldn’t expect a great experience, but as the article says: Older games (like 10-15 years ago) and web games should work ok.

      This is definitely more of a because you can, than a primary computing experience.