Emulation
Old machines running in new browsers.
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The DOS emulator everything else is built on, including the Arcade's own retro cabinets. Download it if the browser version is not enough.
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Console emulators for the browser, embeddable in a page. Bring your own legally obtained games; it brings the machine.
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Every classic Macintosh system, from 1984 on, bootable in a tab in seconds, with software already installed. Drag a file in; it just works, somehow.
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Coin-op arcade machines from the seventies to the nineties, emulated in the browser. Bring a keyboard; the joystick is in your head.
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Thousands of DOS games running in the browser on the Archive's emulator. The big cabinet down the street. Scores do not count here; records are set at home.
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Linux, and other systems, running in your browser, written by the author of QEMU and FFmpeg in his spare time. Type uname -a and nod.
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Original IBM PCs, from the 1981 model up, emulated in JavaScript with the real ROMs and period software. Watch a 4.77 MHz machine boot and feel time.
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A Flash player rebuilt in Rust and WebAssembly, so the games and cartoons of 2000–2010 run again without the plugin. The reason half this list still plays.
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A whole x86 PC emulated in JavaScript: boot Linux, FreeDOS, Windows 98, or an operating system someone wrote for fun, from a web page.