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While I love this, and I totally appreciate the work and effort... why ISA? I mean, why not jack it up to be a clone that works with newer PCs?

I get that it is a clone, but it might have been even better if we could use it today. (of all the old junk I have, I no longer have a mobo with ISA, VLB or AGP slots)

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This is intended for the retro PC community. Interest in building vintage PCs has taken off, but it's getting really hard/expensive to find certain working components like the Sound Blaster.

Maybe because ISA is very simple to implement?

You can support a subset of PCI with a fairly simple fpga implementation, but even the antique pci with its 33/66Mhz bus can be tricky to design with correct signal integrity.

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