# rh1tech/frank-386

> An i386 PC emulator for RP2350 boards (Raspberry Pi Pico 2) with VGA/HDMI output, SD card storage, PS/2 and USB input, and audio. Runs DOS, Windows 3.x/95, and Linux on a microcontroller.

- Magnitude: 0.4 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 206 total · +0 stars on 2026-10-01 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: C · Created: 2026-01-21 · Last push: 2026-09-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/rh1tech/frank-386 · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/rh1tech/frank-386

## Useful for

- Build firmware for your board (M1, M2, Olimex, Waveshare) via build.sh
- Boot floppy, hard disk, and CD-ROM images from SD card and hot-swap them with Win+F12
- Configure memory, CPU, sound, and clocks via the Win+F11 menu without reflashing

## Why it’s here

- Hacker News: “A 386 PC for Your RP2350” — 222 points, 16 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 8
- Issues and pull requests: 7
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 1 per day
- Usual pace: 7 per day
- Latest release: v1.05 (2026-08-06)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-18 1.6, 09-19 0.9, 09-20 1.2, 09-21 1.1, 09-22 0.8, 09-23 0.7, 09-24 0.7, 09-25 0.3, 09-26 0.4, 09-27 0.5, 09-28 0.2, 09-29 0.5, 09-30 0.6, 10-01 0.5

## Hacker News

- A 386 PC for Your RP2350 — 222 points, 80 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49693613

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-01 08:02 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.