The bwFLA Emulation as a Service (EaaS) Project at the University of Freiberg has developed software to offer access to emulated software environments provided by multiple different emulators via a web browser. An example is available on their website with another available on the Rhizome Art Museum's site. The Emulation as a Service model may provide an attractive option for the owners of old software who are uncomfortable will selling old versions of their software directly but would like to open access to their back catalogs. It also promises to give those working to maintain access to historic digital content a new mechanism for providing off-site access to complex, interactive digital objects, as highlighted on the Library of Congress's Digital Preservation blog.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Monday October 20 2014, @09:11AM
Errrr I mean VMware live.
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(Score: 1) by Gravis on Monday October 20 2014, @09:33AM
this is basically a VNC client written in javascript and emulators that are strictly VNC servers. so while it's cool they made it work in a browser but it's a waste because such emulated systems probably require the same amount of resources as the browser client itself with the added bonus of continual lag. there are GPL emulators for every ancient computer system you can think of which is much better than paying to use a crappy javascript client.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2014, @12:39PM
The value seems to be that it makes it possible to provide access to those old environments to people who don't have the time or understanding/skills to do all the configuration themselves.
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Monday October 20 2014, @01:48PM
they're charging for this?
(Score: 1) by sttot on Monday October 20 2014, @03:12PM
Don't seem to be
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 20 2014, @05:46PM
This is more what you are looking for. https://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware [archive.org]
MESS (and this derivative JMESS) is a weird BSD/MAME/GPL amalgam license. They are trying to push it all to BSD. http://mamedev.org/ [mamedev.org] https://github.com/mamedev/mame [github.com]
MAME/MESS/UME really is the borg of emulation. They are the tour-de-force in emulation. Accuracy comes to other platforms thru fixing other platforms as many of these systems used many of the same chips. There are better emulators out there for some specific platforms. But nothing beats them for the scope of what they have done at nearly 34000+ bits of hardware emulated and 60k+ games.
I am currently trying to figure out some time so I can contribute. I have a couple of ideas knocking around in my head I would like to try out.
(Score: 1) by sttot on Tuesday October 21 2014, @12:45AM
theFLAfla software can incorporate access JMESS with a common API that works across all included emulators. Its really an emulation remote access framework. Great for systematizing emulation within a broader context