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The point isn't the code, it's the emulation of the hardware the code runs on. A processor, ram, display and sound are being emulated inside a browser by JavaSc
by jmitcheson 14y ago
The point isn't the code, it's the emulation of the hardware the code runs on. A processor, ram, display and sound are being emulated inside a browser by JavaScript, and we can use this to run a binary almost perfectly. That is what is amazing here, not the ability to play tetris!
- corysama 14y agoMeanwhile, native code was emulating an NES at full speed on a 60Mhz Pentium 1 back in 1997. http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html Its nice that we can finally do in browsers what required assembly 14 years prior, but it's not exactly satisfying...