Google developers make Amiga 500 emulator for Chrome



    Google’s Portable Native Client allows the web application to use the hardware of a PC or laptop in the same way that native software would. Thus, developers can create web toys, services and more sophisticated software that works from the browser in the same way as “regular” applications should work.

    Based on the Portable Native Client, Christian Stefansen, a Google developer, decided to create an Amiga 500 emulator for Chrome .

    This emulator is based on the Open Source Universal Amiga Emulator, it contains about 400 thousand lines of code (originally it was C code, ported to the Native client). The result is an Amiga 500 browser emulator capable of running classic Amiga applications.

    It seems that this emulator “eats” a lot of resources, but all this is not critical, it’s worth trying the project anyway. Of course, this emulator only works under Chrome, other browsers are not suitable.

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