EMC, ISA and other Questions...

I haven't gone hacking into EMC yet, but has anyone tried to port
it to windows? I normally work in VB and VC++ and as of yet not
played in Linux and haven't even seen a Unix box in 15 years.
What peaked my interest was a previous post that mentioned
IO_base_address. If it works off the I/O address, it should talk
directly to an ISA card just like the parallel port. I have ISA
controller cards, but no developable software so I'm reverse
engineering them to write code. If I can pull g-code conversion from
another piece of software rather than doing it from scratch...