Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript

Post by dancecodes » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 12:47 PM UTC

g3 wrote: post #171

api wrote: post #152

I know this sounds like crazy pants, but I would actually use this in the real world if it were a NodeJS module. Not for anything compute-intensive or serious, but for creating very secure very isolated VMs to run web apps or other services in an insecure environment. It could also be a great way to take a LAMP stack app and rapidly deploy it in certain cases. Again not for high performance, but for... I can think of…

The project is made with both browser and nodejs support in mind. There are still some issues to resolve, but I will definitely release a node version this year.

Post by dancecodes » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 5:23 PM UTC

dancecodes wrote: post #182

g3 wrote: post #171

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The project is made with both browser and nodejs support in mind. There are still some issues to resolve, but I will definitely release a node version this year.

its HTML5 and SSE?

Post by g3 » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 9:23 PM UTC

_-_-_- wrote: post #82

@g3 this is super-mega awesome. 3 questions: 1. I know it is already available via the page, but would you please open-source it so others could contribute? 2. Thought I appreciate the apps being shown in the canvas in the resolution they are supposed to use, a full-screen option would be incredible. That way I could play space invaders the way it was meant to be played, in FreeDOS, in a JS emulator, in Firefox, on a…

Post by a1369209993 » Sat, Oct 19, 2013, 10:23 PM UTC

shurcooL wrote: post #170

a1369209993 wrote: post #130

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OnLive runs on OSX. gdb (i think) also runs on OSX. It should be possible to isolate the callback used to handle keyboard input and call it with c=10. This would take anywhere from hours to weeks of debugging though.

No, that won't work. Nothing you do client-side will help. OnLive Client OnLive Servers Deus Ex instance in a VM. The enter key is filtered out on their servers. Unless you hack into their servers and change that, there is nothing you can do on the client-side. That's what makes you completely helpless.

Post by n1ghtmare_ » Sun, Oct 20, 2013, 10:16 AM UTC

awy wrote: post #85

dbancajas wrote: post #55

I want to write an emulator as a learning experience. Any tips how should I start?

I recently posted about emulating the NES with JavaScript. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-nes-emulator-par... Part 2 will be posted when it's done. :) If you want to get something done much quicker, have a go at emulating the Chip-8 VM. I also have a post, but it's less hand-holding than the first. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-8-emulator Good luck!