My second computer was 286 with Hercules monitor (~199x). Not being able to play many games, I took on the "herculian" effort to try to make it so. It kind of worked with the Trolls game (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/trolls) where I found that they kept the video buffer in main memory, and then were copying it to 0xA0000. I did something simple - a TSR program that would copy (actually some made up bit transform) every once in a while (interrupt driven I think) the 320x200x256 colors screen buffer into the hercules by just taking some of the bits... ignoring the palette... Somehow it almost worked - like 5-10fps :) - but I was able to ... almost play the game... It was more fun coding it!

I also found the message which is listed in the mobygames page :)

Haha. But for anyone seriously considering something like this, when your kids become teens in the US they either have smartphone access or they have no friends. Basically school hours are the only time they are reliably unplugged. This is the only way to do it: unplug everyone...now, no network effects.

Great! Can you tell us a bit more about this?

> tactile keyboards

That’s arguably an upgrade.