These emulators were modified to support a custom in-browser network stack (ethernet, tcp/ip) implementation, developed by the bwFla Emulation as a Service team. The v86 emulator is used to run Windows 98, and is presented with a version of Netscape and IE 5 and IE 6.
The Basilisk II emulator is used for running MacOS upto System 7 and is used to run several early browsers, including early versions of MacLynx, Mosaic, Netscape, IE. This version supports three different emulators, all running entirely in the browser, limited only by your own CPU! Sound should fully work in this version as well. Today, thanks to the work of numerous emulator developers and advances in Javascript and related technologies, I am excited to announce a fully Javascript/WebAssembly, browser-based OldWeb.today. I imagined that this would be a temporary solution, and that eventually emulators will run fully in the browser. (The old version of OWT is still available as ) This system used Docker to run emulated versions of browsers in the cloud, and required significant resources to maintain and could only supportĪ fixed number of users at a time. Just over five years ago, at the beginning of December 2015, I released the initial version of OldWeb.today, which demonstrated running emulated browsers connected to web archives.
