OS.js
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Playing Wolfenstein 3D, running in a full-featured web desktop implementation, running in my browser.
What a time to be alive.
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Faster and more responsive than discourse :P
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What a time to be alive.
...when running a 30-year-old game, on hardware about a thousand times more powerful than the one it was designed for, in a sandboxed environment is seen as an accomplishment.
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This is too complicated. Why not just embed a JVM in javascript code? Then you don't have to rewrite all the software.
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This is too complicated. Why not just embed a JVM in javascript code? Then you don't have to rewrite all the software.
I'll take "Bad Ideas" for 800, Alex
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Coincidentally stumbled across this site today: http://game-oldies.com/play-online/road-rash-2-sega-genesis#
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Cool, but does it run Linux?
...wait... I think that's the other way around... right?
Does it run Chrome? Will the Universe implode in a Chrome + OS.js paradox?
Now, seriously, they only need to create Linux distro only with V8 and boot into Chrome fullscreen mode.
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For fucks sake, die a horrible death:
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With enough raw horsepower any platform can emulate any other platform. But that has nothing to do with whether or not it's a good idea to try.
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To be fair, if I was stuck on MacOS, I'd also be looking for a way out. (But this probably doesn't really qualify.)
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Holy shit you're not kidding.
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Apparently the filesystem isn't local, because I see files that clearly seem to have been made by internet people.
Does it run Chrome? Will the Universe implode in a Chrome + OS.js paradox?
Yes and no: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript