Re: N64 running Win 8.1 :)
Looks like a good start. I love the tiny boards we're able to get now with the Baytrail (and now Cherry Trail) chips. I have a few and they give a surprising amount of power from a super low power consumption board.
Something that would be neat to integrate would be an adapter to actually let an SNES cart be read by an emulator. There was a company that made them, but it looks like they have stopped production. You should be able to find some around though, if that's something that would interest you.
http://www.retrode.org/
Re: N64 running Win 8.1 :)
Nice! I love console PCs, especially when they're Nintendo.
Re: N64 running Win 8.1 :)
Re: N64 running Win 8.1 :)
You could rig up a small microcontroller board to the N64 cartridge slot, basically program it to sense whenever a cartridge is present, read the data, and transfer it to the main PC board through internal USB or something. Launching the emulator software would require some sort of custom USB driver. Perhaps the embedded logic from a Logitech Gaming Keyboard/Mouse (and Logitech's Gaming Software driver suite) can be repurposed to this, it would just be a matter of electrical interface and using the software to map the buttons/keys (to launch apps, etc) as desired.
It might be simpler to just play N64 titles off a local drive, though, maybe just retain the slot for cosmetic purposes. You'd have to ensure that plugging in cartridges actually doesn't do anything unpleasant (since somebody sooner or later will try it).