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Post could use a better title: "Archive.org now lets you play pre-Nintendo video games from your browser" ... at least, I assume that's what's new here.
by BrandonMarc 13y ago
Post could use a better title:
"Archive.org now lets you play pre-Nintendo video games from your browser"
... at least, I assume that's what's new here.
- azakai 13y agoYes, this basically lets you run classic game consoles in modern browsers, through emulation. The physical consoles are in many cases extremely hard to find, so emulation is the only practical option to relive them, and emulating them in browsers is the best way to make it accessible to as many people as possible. This is done via JSMESS ( http://jsmess.textfiles.com/ http://jsmess.textfiles.com/ ), a port of the MESS emulator (which can emulate many old machines) to JavaScript using Emscripten. JSMESS has been around for a while, the most recent news being announced here is a new set of classic game consoles that have just been ported. Very cool that the Internet Archive is doing this, otherwise these machines that played a significant part of many people's childhoods would remain only in their memories.