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Well that was a nostalgia-fest. And incredibly impressive to me seeing something run in a browser tab that once took some expensive hardware (bespoke harward w

by bonaldi 11y ago

Well that was a nostalgia-fest. And incredibly impressive to me seeing something run in a browser tab that once took some expensive hardware (bespoke harward which took years to emulate at that!). It brings home in an easy-to-grasp way the advances in the web and processing power in general

digi_owl 11y ago
Not quite. This is using Google NACL to run. Thus it is basically taking an existing emulator and recompiling it for the NACL environment. Now if it was using Mozilla Webassembly, it would really be an achievement.
- takeda 11y ago
  Isn't this Google's version of ActiveX?
  - foldor 11y ago
    I think it's an unfair comparison to ActiveX, but it's similar enough I suppose. NaCL is a much more heavily sandboxed environment, and is at least cross platform.
    - takeda 11y ago
      Still, it allows to run proprietary code that you won't know what it does.
      - skybrian 11y ago
        That's just as true of minified JavaScript.
- adam12 11y ago
  Pure javascript Amiga emulator: http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/ http://scriptedamigaemulator.net/
- david-given 11y ago
  Portable native client. It's compiled into bytecode and then translated into native code when it gets loaded into your browser. I've just run this on my ARM based notebook and it worked fine.