webvm VS touchHLE

Shameless self-promotion: https://webvm.io

Powered by a x86->Wasm JIT. Technical writeup: https://labs.leaningtech.com/blog/webvm-server-less-x86-virt...

Developer here. CheerpX for Flash runs the Pepper API version of Flash, and you're correct about the license. However, we don't do full Linux emulation just to run Flash - we emulate PPAPI and run the Flash player in an x86 JIT (CheerpX).

Yuri talks about CXFF's architecture here:

https://youtu.be/7JUs4c99-mo?t=1045

...but if you wanted full Linux system emulation, we got it! https://webvm.io

webvm has Tailscale sockets-over-WebSockets for networking: https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm

https://webvm.io/ supports WebVM runs x86 binaries in WASM on any browser w/ ("CheerpX includes an x86-to-WebAssembly JIT compiler, a virtual block-based file system, and a Linux syscall emulator") and for external sockets there's Tailscale networking.

IIUC that means an SSH client in a WebVM can connect to a (tailscale (wg)) VPN mesh

lets pre-load it into a https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm/blob/main/dockerfiles/debian_mini

Just to show how complex these can get look at this https://webvm.io/

Funnily enough, I believe that's completely achievable with enough time spent on it (probably a few weeks of an engineer working full time).

We have technology like WebVM [1] (from leaningtech / CheerP) or Copy86 [2] that already allows x86 machine code execution/emulation on the web. If you add an OCI client layer on top that is executable in the browser, it should be possible to run Docker containers in the browser.

[1] https://webvm.io/

[2] https://copy.sh/v86/

If you still have the IPA file for it, you should look into seeing if it runs on touchHLE [1], an emulator for early versions of iOS. They also have an app archive if you'd like to give permission for them to preserve the game.

[1]: https://touchhle.org/

[2]: https://touchhle.org/app-archive/

This project is the most promising and it does what you say, except they're starting with iOS 1.0 so you'll have to be patient!

https://touchhle.org/

Very interesting. The "why" context seems to be buried in an issue comment https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/issues/181#issuec... and I guess the purpose is to emulate old iOS games, from the early Cambrian explosion of ideas at the start of the App Store. This is also an era I am nostalgic for, with lots of new concepts, art pieces, and indie games, before anyone knew how to sustainably monetize, for better or worse. For example, Distant Shore is definitely a relic from a simpler time! https://johnnybgamer.com/2009/08/13/distant-shore/

> It does remind me that that there is still no way to play Wolfenstein RPG on iOS.

This may change very soon :)

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/pull/139

So, it only does three 32-bit iOS games thus far, BUT, there's a chance in the future, this emulator will allow us to run the game you're talking about: https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE