#softwareemulators — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #softwareemulators, aggregated by home.social.
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TechSpot: Someone built an x86 CPU emulator using pure CSS, for science. “Thanks to JavaScript, WebAssembly, and other modern web standards, it is now possible to run a wide range of applications directly in a web browser. Programmer Lyra Rebane went even further by (ab)using Cascading Style Sheets to emulate a partially functional x86 processor.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/28/techspot-someone-built-an-x86-cpu-emulator-using-pure-css-for-science/ -
Boing Boing: Play with a web replica of the Apple Lisa’s GUI. “Lisa GUI is a web-based model of the Apple Lisa’s graphical user interface. Predating the original Macintosh by a year, it introduced so much that we associate with it, from the high-resolution 1-bit aesthetic to user-interface standards that persist to this day. Andrew Yaros, owner of a real Lisa 2/10, created the replica.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/boing-boing-play-with-a-web-replica-of-the-apple-lisas-gui/