The idea reminds me of the fact that truly old-ass Intel clones are the foundation of many a microcontroller design [1]. Searching for the 8051, the most popular family, here on HN will lead you to some very deep rabbit holes [2].
Anyone else instantly turned away by the LLM emoji bullet points?
This project could be the work of an enthusiastic developer with a deep understanding/love of the 80286 or LLM slop based on regurgitated code stolen from years of hard work by dedicated retro emulator developers. Unfair or not, emoji bullet points do not give confidence it's the first.
tab8000 · 22m ago
Looking at the commits, for me it seems to be LLM generated. Claude is even mentioned in one of them [0].
Code is also LLMed + no screenshots, no videos, no software compatibility listed, no github issues/error reports and nobody on the googlable internet ever ran this. No idea whats going on.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51
[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=8051&utm_source=opensearch&utm_med...
This project could be the work of an enthusiastic developer with a deep understanding/love of the 80286 or LLM slop based on regurgitated code stolen from years of hard work by dedicated retro emulator developers. Unfair or not, emoji bullet points do not give confidence it's the first.
[0] https://github.com/xrip/pico-286/commit/d7fd03193fa3f406758a...