Recently I fell into a wormhole, or rather time sink, playing with a Gameboy emulator that runs in the browser.
https://github.com/binji/binjgb
There's something so satisfying about a virtual machine that fits in a ~106K WASM file, that can play hundreds of classic games like Teris and Super Mario Bros (via ROM collections on Internet Archive). I don't usually play games, but this emulator is so cute and fun, I keep coming back to waste time on it.
Actually, PICO-8 was the last time I felt this kind of child-like joy about a computer.
I get a similar feeling from this Infinite Mac project.
https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac
It's so pleasing to see a running Macintosh in the browser. That interface feels like an old friend. The underlying VM, BasiliskII, is a little less than 1MB WASM file. Amazing!
From the entertaining article, I learned about "retrocomputing". Now I know, that's what I'm into, haha. I especially like it when it's virtualized - like a microcosmos.
https://github.com/binji/binjgb
There's something so satisfying about a virtual machine that fits in a ~106K WASM file, that can play hundreds of classic games like Teris and Super Mario Bros (via ROM collections on Internet Archive). I don't usually play games, but this emulator is so cute and fun, I keep coming back to waste time on it.
Actually, PICO-8 was the last time I felt this kind of child-like joy about a computer.
I get a similar feeling from this Infinite Mac project.
https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac
It's so pleasing to see a running Macintosh in the browser. That interface feels like an old friend. The underlying VM, BasiliskII, is a little less than 1MB WASM file. Amazing!
From the entertaining article, I learned about "retrocomputing". Now I know, that's what I'm into, haha. I especially like it when it's virtualized - like a microcosmos.