26.10.2013 09:20 Uhr, Quelle: Macworld UK

Historical Software Archive lets you use vintage software in your browser

The Internet Archive's new Historical Software Archive�brings old software to your browser through the magic of JSMESS emulation.The Internet Archive has protected and preserved old software for a while now; archivist Jason Scott claimed back in April that the organization possessed the largest historical software collection in the world.Software is so transient, though. It's sometimes hard to get a program from 2003 to run on a modern machine, let alone a program from 1983. For most people it wouldn't be worth the trouble to, as the Internet Archive puts it, "track down the hardware and media to run [old software], or download and install emulators and acquire/install cartridge or floppy images as you boot up the separate emulator pro

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