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Projects like these remind me that there are people in this world live in a different intellectual plane than us. For them, time probably moves slowly and the average person's intellect must surely amuse them. Because how is it possible for this to be made by one human?

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This is really just a repackaging of work thats already been done. It uses the BasiliskII emulator which was compiled to Javascript with Emscripten by someone else a few years ago.

Still pretty cool but not some crazy technological feat.

Oh, that would nice to include in the README - changes my entire perception of this project. Thanks for the context!

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/blob/master/C...

If you squint you can see Basilisk II under “Credits” in the screenshot.

And if you look at `CREDITS.md` in the top level of the project source, you can see that the author of this project considers that the "real work":

https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/blob/master/C...

Author here. You're 100% right, I do consider Basilisk and the Emscripten compiler to be the "real" work here. I added that in a Credits file in the repo, the app, and even _in_ the virtual machine - because I think that's important to know.

Maybe not this project is the best example aa other have pointed out, but oh yeah, people like that exist.

If you want to mildly astonished of project(s) in a similar vein, look at all the stuff Fabrice Bellard have made! It's really quite impressive.

Seconded. That guy is great. I've been following the QuickJS project with great interest.

don't sell yourself short.

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