PC emulator in a browser!

[marovada]

Fabrice Ballard, the original developer of Qemu, has written a PC emulator running a linux operating system in a browser using javascript:


See Engadget story


It's got shell commands, tcc and even vi.


Edit: Bellard

 

[Esn]

Could this be used to emulate DOS games?

 

[WizardStan]

Could this be used to emulate DOS games?

I will end you, and no one will convict me.





edit: unless you were being serious, in which case, no, this won't help emulate dos games in any way. Sorry.

 

[Nintendo]

lol

 

[Esn]

Guilty as charged. I saw "PC" and for some reason associated that with x86. I blame it on those those Mac vs. PC commercials... h34r:

 

[Letalis Sonus]

Could this be used to emulate DOS games?

That emulator is as minimalistic as possible, being just as capable as needed to get Linux + Busybox running.


No real mode, no 16-bit protected mode, no segment limit and rights check when accessing memory, no CS/DS/ES/SS segment overrides, no emulated video chip/screen, just a serial output.


I doubt you'll get DOS to run without adding a lot of that missing stuff.