part of this complete breakfast

does anyone know if you can control all those fancy RGB lights over a serial port? does NZXT make an ISA card for them?

I've talked before that I want to build a joke computer that has main box, keyboard, mouse, and monitor. but it turns out you can open the side of the box, and it's empty, other than the keyboard cable being plugged into the monitor.

the keyboard is wireless. the mouse is wired. it's got a raspi zero w in it. it's the brains, and the "USB" cable is actually HDMI, for the monitor.

stupid idea: build an RGB controller as an ISA card, and it does VGA snooping. Watch for the overscan to change color, like when you get shot in Wolfenstein 3D, and change the RGB lighting to match. BAM! game synced RGB effects, with no software changes to the DOS games.

it's also kinda weird that you don't see emulators emulating it. it seems like it'd be easy: just chuck an 8-pixel border around the main screen and wire it up to properly change colors when it should.

I guess that when people screenshot games that ran in 320x200 mode they expect 320x200 images, not 336x216. but still, supporting overscan should be easy