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I went through the period of nostalgia and fascination the author exhibits years ago with Amiga, c64 and dos emulation and virtual machines. It's impressive an

• smacktoward 12y ago
  > We've had this capability for windows, mac and Linux for years which covers about every platform with a browser Yes, but that always required installing emulation software, tracking down the necessary ROMs/disk images, etc. If it's running in the browser, the site admin can do all that once for everybody rather than every user having to do it for him/herself. All the user has to do is open a URL.
  • zokier 12y ago
    > All the user has to do is open a URL. I think it is a shame that Java Web Start style tech never got anywhere. It pretty much delivered such experience (click url and app launches) without actually binding the application to the browser.
• sehugg 12y ago
  Emulators suffer from bitrot just like the software they're emulating. I've seen several fall into disrepair in recent years -- eventually we'll lose the people that remember how the the old systems worked. Centralizing the development and publishing it on the web seems a good way to keep the preservation effort humming. (And as pointed out in the OP, getting something like Trumpet Winsock to work against a 21st century internet is non-trivial)