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Re:1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App by tikwidd on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:45AM (#23983810)
how easy is this to get running in an actual browser, rather than Electron*? I want to host some Hypercard stacks (some of which need Quicktime support, hence colour Mac emulation).
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Re:1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App by thomond on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:26AM (#23985187)
It appears to use this as the emulator: https://jamesfriend.com.au/basilisk-ii-classic-mac-emulator-... You can just directly use that instead.
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Re:1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 as an Electron App by felixrieseberg on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:23AM (#23987622)
James Friend is the one who got the C compiled with Emscripten, and as long as you're able to serve an entire disk image from a server (and don't crumble under the bandwidth), a browser is good enough.

Electron is only here to ensure that state is saved (save a game, quit the app, start the app, your save game is still there) and to make the mounting of disk images and transfer of files from your local machine super easy.

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