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Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript

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Re: Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript

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'Tis the season for javascript emulators, I guess. I've seen at least 3 or 4 up on HN in the last week. Cool stuff.

When we will see an emulator emulating Chrome or Firefox and emulating the emulator?

I am also wondering when we will see the first emulator which is trying a dynamic translation with the eval function :)

Re: Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript

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post #5

'Tis the season for javascript emulators, I guess. I've seen at least 3 or 4 up on HN in the last week. Cool stuff.

When we will see an emulator emulating Chrome or Firefox and emulating the emulator? I am also wondering when we will see the first emulator which is trying a dynamic translation with the eval function :)

That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....

Re: Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When we will see an emulator emulating Chrome or Firefox and emulating the emulator? I am also wondering when we will see the first emulator which is trying a dynamic translation with the eval function :)

That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....

Your are talking to the author of that emulator :) It would be much easier for an x86 emulator. I tried only the Javascript engines from Google and Chrome so far. Of course they all fail to compile with an unsupported platform error using the OpenRISC toolchain. I am wondering which one is more compatible for cross-compiling.

Re: Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator in Javascript

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....

Your are talking to the author of that emulator :) It would be much easier for an x86 emulator. I tried only the Javascript engines from Google and Chrome so far. Of course they all fail to compile with an unsupported platform error using the OpenRISC toolchain. I am wondering which one is more compatible for cross-compiling.

I wonder if a standard webkit-gtk might be doable just because it does support running without a JIT from some googling. I imagine it'll be slow as anything could be, but it might work.
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