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James Friend
Personal blog · jamesfriend.com.auwebgameshardware
James Friend's personal blog at jamesfriend.com.au covers web, games and hardware. Since 2013, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 88 times, most often “PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
I make stuff on the web. Front end junk and emulation stuff.
Most-linked posts?
- PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 78 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-08-31
- Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-10-18
- PCE.js Classic Mac OS in the Browser4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2015-10-05
- Chatbots are the future of computing4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-03-30
- Fast Macintosh emulation in the browser using SharedArrayBuffer4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-07-28
- Porting PCE (Macintosh) emulator to the web (2017)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-04-16
- Porting the Basilisk II classic Macintosh emulator to the browser (2017)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-08-07
- /running-hypercard-stack-20142 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-24
- /pce-js/atari-st/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-04
- /pce-js/pce-js-apps/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-18
What Hacker News says?
For those who are interested I have uploaded some more demos: IBM PC with Wolfenstein 3d, Civilization, Monkey Island: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-games/ IBM PC with Windows 3.0: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win/ Mac Plus with applications and games: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/
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on “Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript”Submitted Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser as a story · 385 points
HN discussionIf like this you might also be interested in my port of the PCE Emulator to the browser: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ At the moment I've only uploaded a demo of the Mac Plus emulator (classic 68k mac) but I'll upload IBM PC and Atari ST demos soon also.
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on “Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript”Submitted PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7 as a story · 124 points
HN discussionIf you want to see the UI of GEM for yourself, here's an in browser emulator of an Atari ST with GEM: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/
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on “X to close”Submitted A First Reason React App for JavaScript Developers as a story · 85 points
HN discussionAs the article shows, the close button on MacOS classic was basically an empty box, but on mousing down on that box, it transformed into something that looks a bit like an x. I'm basing this on what I can see from using [1], but from my possibly inaccurate recollection of using the real thing in the 80s and 90s, some versions of MacOS had an even more "x like" mouse down image on the close button. [1] http://jamesfr…
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on “X to close”Submitted Dark Castle and Macintosh System 6 Emulator as a story · 79 points
HN discussionThere are a few others VMs https://copy.sh/v86/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ ( https://github.com/jsdf/pce ) https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) ( https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs ) Mac OS https://infinitemac.org/ ( https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm... ) https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/BasiliskII-wo... https://jamesfriend.com.a…
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on “WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side”Submitted Porting the Basilisk II classic Macintosh emulator to the browser (2017) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt appears to use this as the emulator: https://jamesfriend.com.au/basilisk-ii-classic-mac-emulator-... You can just directly use that instead.
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on “1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App”Submitted PCE.js Classic Mac OS in the Browser as a story · 3 points
HN discussionif electron is not to your taste, you can run the emulator in your browser here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/ coincidently today firefox 79 was released, which brings back support for SharedArrayBuffer, which is a key part of the browser port of this emulator
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on “1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App”Submitted Try HyperCard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBeatStash: a Git/GitHub for music production (using git-annex) In other words, keeping every version and branch of a musical idea, with rollback and merging (eg. merge bassline track from version A into different branch), and collaboration through these same tools. I know people have approached this idea a few times, and just this month a startup called Splice popped up with some funding to do almost exactly what I…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?”Submitted Fast Macintosh emulation in the browser using SharedArrayBuffer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere aren't many VMs that can run in browser https://copy.sh/v86/ https://webvm.io/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ ( https://github.com/jsdf/pce ) https://www.pcjs.org/ (lots of hardware and OSes) ( https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs ) Mac OS https://infinitemac.org/ ( https://blog.persistent.info/2023/03/infinitemac-dot-org.htm... ) https://jamesfriend.com.au/projects/basiliskii/Basil…
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on “JSLinux”Submitted A classic Mac emulated on the web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHi, I hacked this together, though most of the credit should go to Hampa Hug's very nice emulator[0]. I'm posting this now as I saw the neat Windows emulator project and figured today was a good day to talk about emulation :) My reasoning for putting this together is that I think it's really important for people to learn from what's come before, and the web is the most accessible place to do that. I've written a pos…
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on “Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser”Submitted Porting the Basilisk II Classic Macintosh Emulator to the Browser as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's already built from two open source projects: PCE[0] and Emscripten[1]. It patches Emscripten a little, and PCE a lot, so I'll need to separate those patches out and add them into the build process. Basically the code is not really in much of a state for other people to hack on just yet. However, for GPL compliance with PCE, a dump of the source is available[2]. [0] http://www.hampa.ch/pce/ [1] https://github.co…
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on “Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser”Submitted Chatbots are the future of computing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYeah, I'll put it up on GitHub once I've had time to clean up the build process to separate the new code from the dependencies (which I've had to hack extensively). In the meantime here's a dump of the source: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pcejs20131028.zip
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on “Run Windows 1.01 in your browser”Submitted PCE.js Mac Plus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs there seems to be a lot of interest in emulators in the browser, here's my effort: I ported an emulator for classic Mac and IBM PC to the browser. Mac System 7 Demo: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ Windows 3.0 Demo: http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win/ IBM PC doesn't have mouse support... Yet. For Mac OS it's writing the mouse position directly into memory, but I've yet to add that hack for Windows.
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on “Run Windows 1.01 in your browser”Submitted Porting PCE (Macintosh) emulator to the web (2017) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI did the initial work of porting this emulator to the browser (most credit should go to the original emulator author however: http://hampa.ch/pce ). I wrote up the process and hacks that went in to making this possible here: https://jamesfriend.com.au/porting-pce-emulator-browser The most gross/fun part was how I made the Mac OS mouse position align with your real mouse cursor: by writing its position directly to t…
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on “Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive”Submitted Why port emulators to the browser? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAlternatively you could just run the real thing :) http://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/ibmpc-win/ Caveats: it's actually 3.0 and the mouse doesn't work... yet
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on “Windows 3.1 written in JS/HTML”Submitted PCE Macplus Emulator Running Mac OS System 7 – PCE.js as a story · 1 points
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