Date   : Thu, 15 May 2014 15:09:37 +0100
From   : beeb@... (Dr. David Alan Gilbert)
Subject: BBC B in javascript

* Jess Rowbottom (jess@...) wrote:
> On 15 May 2014,@13:45, Mark Ashley <mark@...> wrote:
> 
> > I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else yet. Crazily it works
> > really well, if you can figure out the keymapping.
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/15/chap_rebuilds_bbc_micro_in_javascript/
> 
> It?s extremely well done, and loads disk images directly from STH. I?ve
been playing Chuckie Egg over lunchtime using it.
> 
> 8271 DFS and little else, but given the source is available on github I
can?t see it being long before someone extends it. I?ve already started looking
at whether I can implement some of the Rockwell 6502 opcodes, and perhaps
sideways RAM?

Yes, this is progress - back ~20 years ago when I wrote Beebem, PCs were
fast enough to emulate a Beeb using the simple C emulator I wrote; now PCs
are fast enough and languages slow enough to emulate a Beeb using Javascript.

Dave
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