MAME Running In Chrome 165
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timothy
from the ok-now-iterate-and-1-and-2-and-switch dept.
from the ok-now-iterate-and-1-and-2-and-switch dept.
An anonymous reader writes to point out this interesting outgrowth of Google's Native Client: a Google engineer has ported MAME 0.143 to the browser-based platform, and written about the process in detail, outlining the overall strategy employed as well as specific problems that MAME presented. An impressive postscript from the conclusion: "The port of MAME was relatively challenging; combined with figuring out how to port SDL-based games and load resources in Native Client, the overall effort took us about 4 days to complete."
Linux in Native Mode? (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder who will construct the crazy mobius loop of running Linux in Chrome's native mode? It'll be google-colored turtles all the way down.