Can any useful emulation run on a Raspberry Pi Zero? CM4? CM5?

[akator70]

Software emulation and FPGA is damn good and I'm grateful to the programmers that make it possible.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

And that is the older Raspberry Pi 2. We don't play with old macs because of their compute power.

Nice! I won't have the cubic worries of doing a PowerBook PiPower resurrection for playtime. I can just leave the MDD LeafBlower unplugged!

A basic (copper cladding free) perf board "PCI Card" will let me do whatever I want on my daily driver's KVM Setup.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Raspberry Pi 3A+ is functionally similar and still in stock at some U.S. distributors for $25

Thanks for the suggestion, makes a lot of sense, but went with the Zero with antenna connector installed. That alone is worth the performance hit for my purposes.

The soldered GPIO header was the first deal killer, lowest profile possible wanted for PowerBook 100 and Duo Pi-Resurrection. For the MonsterBook form factors it probably wouldn't matter.

Had also assumed it would have the (introduced in Pi 4?) duplex USB connector. That is also a deal killer and a major impediment in my CM4 I/O board struggles. By the time emulation catches up with Pi CM4&5 I'll have mastered desoldering well enough to remove the Duplex USB and RJ45 towers.

Also need to practice tight pitch HDMI SMT connector component hotwiring. Need to point the connection backwards to interface with the internal display's controller board. Direction adapters won't fit.

 

[Forrest]

Ok, looks like a project that takes a little work. I would install a heatsink on the CPU chip on the Pi - useful if you want to overclock the Pi. I don’t think you need to solder the 40 pin header, but you may want to solder the 5v and Ground pins, if you want to use a power button to turn the Pi on and off.