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Lukman
The ActiveGS Chrome extension required to run the games on this site is broken, and the code hasn't been updated in two years:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/activegs/nhndampaj...

amelius
It shows the sad state of the web: anything you build will automatically be broken in a couple of years.
st3fan
I downvoted this because it is nonsense. And in this case it is broken because this site depends on a browser extension. A native browser extension.
dasil003
The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility along with Microsoft's herculean efforts on DOS/Windows over the years.
jimmaswell
>The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility

Are you serious? Flash is being dropped eventually, npapi plugins (especially wrt Java) are out, the blink tag is gone, Firefox extensions are being dropped for a worse system, breaking changes to JavaScript, the list goes on.

brennen
On the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
pmontra
It seems to be a Java thing. Probably wasm and emscripten (1) would be fast enough nowadays but this emulator was created many years ago.

(1) They can't access the sceeen AFAIK so we still need some plain JavaScript to interface the emulator at every computed frame. Is there any project like that, not necessarily retro computing?

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junke
See here for more Apple II stuff: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/site_index.txt
jloughry
For extra realism, consider incorporating Trevor Blackwell's analogtv.c source code. It's a faithful DSP simulation of late 1970s television circuitry. You can see it in action in some Xscreensaver modules.
notadoc
It wants to install a browser plugin? Haha, no thanks.
Hilyin
seriously. This is not "in browser" if you need a plugin in my opinion.
mr-ron
Another great collection of old browser-ready software from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary
derefr
Sadly, there's one small time-slice of games that the Internet Archive Software Library doesn't cover: games for Windows 95/98 that were 16-bit code, but also used 32-bit Windows APIs. Slightly too old for modern Windows to support; slightly too new for DOSBox to manage to run. :/

Some of these are sold on GOG, but the rest have faded into the kind of complete availability-oblivion that the IA is supposed to prevent—they're not available as torrents, you can't find them on eBay, etc.

mr-ron
Examples? There isn't a whole lot from that era that I haven't found SOMEwhere.
dver23
Awesome, they have Taxman and Super Taxman, I can play the maze I drew up again!