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I just learned about the Canon Cat a couple of days ago! I wrote up a blog post with some resources and tidbits: https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/13/the-canon-cat

I had a lot of fun with this emulator on Archive.org, and included some quick notes about using it with macOS: https://archive.org/details/canoncat

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All of vintage computer emulators on the Internet Archive owe a tip of the hat to the Canon Cat emulation, because that was the computer that started me on automating the original cross-compilation infrastructure.

Archived Twitter thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1150798839294627842.html

Gist with links to the actual scripts behind the scenes: https://gist.github.com/vitorio/4e5d8de0db5c56b6816b95817c20...

Thanks for your work!

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