Modern PC-DOS Compatibility Card (ie MacCharlie) ?

[garyschechter]

Is there any manufactures making a modern equivalent of the old PowerPC compatibility cards? For anyone not familiar there was the MacCharlie.

I've seen these intel based stick computers on Amazon and imagining something like that to plug into a Thunderbolt port.

I just got a 14" M2 Max and I have to do regular development for a custom label printer application that is dependent on a special printer driver only available for x86 windows only (Epson C3400/C3500), and Parallels Windows 11 ARM can't install the x86 drivers.

 

[bobcomer]

I think it wouldn't be that hard, but no, nobody makes one yet.

 

[haralds]

The trick would be a graphics driver mapping the Windows API to Metal over Thunderbolt or USB. This is quite tricky and complex.
Given the already developed state and performance of Parallels Desktop, there is likely no business opportunity to make this happen

 

[bobcomer]

The trick would be a graphics driver mapping the Windows API to Metal over Thunderbolt or USB. This is quite tricky and complex.

Not really. That's how parallels, et al, do it, they emulate a video adapter for the VM. It would be no harder to do it via TB.