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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.

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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.

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...

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