Retro Roundup: Old Computers Emulated Right In Your Browser

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 29, 2015 @03:48AM from the just-don't-start-wopr dept.

An anonymous reader writes: If you ever wanted to program an Altair, an Apple I, or a COSMAC ELF you may think you either have to buy one (expensive now) or load and configure simulation software. However, there's a slew of browser-based emulators for everything from a PDP-11 to Windows 1.0 out there. Some use Java, but many use Javascript and many perform better on a modern PC then they did in their original. If you want to learn some history or just want to finally play with the computers you saw in the magazines 35 years ago, these are great fun and slightly addictive.

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Several orders of magnitude faster by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-29 04:07 · Score: -1, Troll

wow. Pride that your simulation that runs in some bloated abortion of a bouncy castle is faster than some original hardware that is several orders of magnitude slower than the system you're using. Well done Java, well done Javascript.
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