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And for a somewhat more practical but at the same time more exotic example, the Internet Archive has a ton of old minicomputers and arcade games running in MESS/MAME, each compiled to webasm. One click and you can boot anything and play it in your browser. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary

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That is gorgeous. I just booted Win 3.1 to Minesweeper in less than a minute on my phone's browser.

Too bad makers of the original Minesweeper did not think to build touch input support.


This is amazing. If only it would also work in my phone. Probably for the best to stop me “wasting” time ;).


Are you sure that's actually using WASM? It sounds to me like it's currently using ASM.js compiled via Emscripten. (Though in theory there's no reason why it _couldn't_ be WASM, since Emscripten supports WASM as a compiler target.)


I thought they switched over back in July. https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/884084207688892416




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