The Emularity

They should try getting a more modern browser on there. If I remember correctly, while running my hand-me-down Gateway 2000 with Windows 3.11 in 1998, I managed to get Internet Explorer 3 or 4 installed after I downloaded it at a friend's house.

Re: The Emularity

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Post by nsxwolf » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

Is there a link to a live demo?

Re: The Emularity

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Post by platz » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

> It turns out a number of fundamental aspects of The Web have changed since this time.

I wish they went into more detail what exactly changed and why these browsers no longer work, unless it was the PPP protocol they mentioned that is causing the issue.

Re: The Emularity

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Post by 300bps » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC

My first thought on reading this is that we can't be that far off from running MAME and every classic arcade game in a browser. Googled it and sure enough - it's already here courtesy of the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

Re: The Emularity

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Post by csl » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:29 PM UTC

If anyone is interested, I just wrote a simple guide on how to get your own DOS programs up and running with em-dosbox: https://csl.name/post/em-dosbox/

Em-dosbox and emscripten are really amazing projects. An emulator is cross-compiled to JavaScript, which is then JITed in your browser's js VM. It's not only amazing that it works, but also that it runs pretty well (compared to native dosbox, it's only a little bit slower on some programs).

Re: The Emularity

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Post by chrisduesing » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

"This means that somewhere, this instance needs to be connected to a proxy server, which assigns a 10.x.x.x address to the “Windows” machine, and then forwards the connections through. Basically, world’s weirdest, most hipster ISP on the face of the earth."

I wonder if there will ever be a business case for things like this. I sit across the hall from a startup that sells mp3 gramaphones, etsy is a huge success, there are strange Kickstarter projects every day. Is nostalgia a permanent long tail phenomenon, or a fad from which people will move on?

Re: The Emularity

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Post by marcosdumay » Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

Who creates an emilator for Windows 3.11 and doesn't install the ski game?