All entries in topic: emulator

This is an interesting question posed by French programmer Fabrice Bellard, who then attempted to answer the question by creating a JavaScript PC (x86) emulator to run Linux. It runs in FireFox 4, Chrome 10, Opera 11.11 and IE9. Oh and he also wrote his own JavaScript terminal, you know, for fun.

That’s right, a C64 plugin called jsc64. You call $('#container').jsc64(); and a Commodore 64 emulator appears within the element with id container. Tim has ported an existing Flash/ActionScript emulator (FC64) to use JavaScript and canvas. It runs a little slow under Firefox, but Chrome seems to handle it pretty well. There’s also a small selection of ROMs you can load and play.

Thanks, Raena for the heads-up.

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Gil Megidish has created an Apple II emulator in pure JavaScript and using the canvas element for the screen display. It’s a literal emulation of the CPU that reads the binary files for the games and everything. It’s hard to get a good screen shot because of the display refresh rate. You’ll probably want to run it using Chrome to get a decent frame rate.