js-dos VS eruda

Funny timing. I actually just built an in-house server this past Friday to host the original Oregon Trail using js-dos because I don't like poking holes in the content filter for sites like archive.org. I didn't worry too much about copyright, as I assumed it was abandonware at this point.

Thanks glad you liked it! It's actually not a port but is running on DOS via https://js-dos.com/, same as Doom and Jazz Jackrabbit. I actually have my 8 favorite Shareware games on my website which can all be played.

https://dustinbrett.com/?app=FileExplorer&url=/Users/Public/...

Maybe something like https://js-dos.com/ for dos and https://www.emulatorjs.com/ for old game consoles?

DOS Emulation via js-dos

Adding emulators is something I always wanted to do and I have plans to add more in 2022. For 2021 I was able to add Virtual x86 (.img/.iso), BoxedWine (.exe/.zip), JS-DOS (.exe/.zip) & Ruffle (.swf/.spl). Most of these emulators utilize WebAssembly to run non-JS code.

It can indeed run some real windows programs via BoxedWine. I've set it up so you can double click an .exe and it will automatically try and run it, although typically if it needs support dll's then they are all in a zip. For example the zip file for Notepad++ 32-bit x86 can directly run in BoxedWine. You just drag the zip file on, right click and select run in BoxedWine. It can also run DOS apps/games via JS-DOS and has similar mappings for exe/zip. Both emulators make use of WASM as do several other apps, such as the x86 emulator shown in the demo video. My main "OS" is only JS/HTML/CSS written in TypeScript with React/Styled Components.

Could you inject it as a bookmarklet?

If not, you could probably just paste it into Eruda (https://eruda.liriliri.io/)

More details about that on their github page [1]. It seems you basically need to include a JS file from [their CDN](//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/eruda).

As someone who fondly remembers the early Firebug days, it is great to see this. It is very frustrating to me that tablets and phones are so powerful, but we can't do even basic dev stuff on them.

[1] https://github.com/liriliri/eruda

If you're taking about the browser's javascript console, I've got a userscript with eruda over here. You can use it with tampermonkey or violentmonkey or so on in Firefox (stable Firefox mobile finally added tampermonkey to their approved list of Android extensions).

I actually do allow Inspect on mobile if you right click the desktop (hold on mobile), using a library called Eruda (https://eruda.liriliri.io/). As for how I run flash, that is another library called Ruffle (https://ruffle.rs/).