Want to run Linux inside your browser (or old DOS apps) ?

[Tellos Athenaios]

There is now an emulator mimicking DOS era hardware that can run inside your browser (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/18/javascript_pc_emulator/). It already is capable of running Linux, provided you grab one with an FPU emulator. You can get it here (http://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html)

[Lemur]

Ah, I used an Apple II emulator (http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html) to run Oregon Trail. Much the same concept, I think.

[Tellos Athenaios]

What is different is that this is all written in JavaScript (and at least compared to QEMU it is different because the JavaScript code actually executes the x86 machine code).

[Lemur]

So does this mean I can finally replay Wasteland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_%28video_game%29)? In my browser?

[Tellos Athenaios]

No you'd have to port the DOS to it/extend the emulator to provide mimic more hardware capabilities: this emulator is just the strict minimum for Linux apparently.

[Lemur]

this emulator is just the strict minimum for Linux apparently.
Well, given that Linux can run on a saltine cracker with 64k of RAM, that's no fun at all. Pfooey.