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this thing is awesome!
'Tis the season for javascript emulators, I guess. I've seen at least 3 or 4 up on HN in the last week. Cool stuff.
When we will see an emulator emulating Chrome or Firefox and emulating the emulator?

I am also wondering when we will see the first emulator which is trying a dynamic translation with the eval function :)

That openrisc one from the other day supported X and wayland. It should be possible to load firefox on it and then load the emulator again....
Your are talking to the author of that emulator :) It would be much easier for an x86 emulator. I tried only the Javascript engines from Google and Chrome so far. Of course they all fail to compile with an unsupported platform error using the OpenRISC toolchain. I am wondering which one is more compatible for cross-compiling.
I wonder if a standard webkit-gtk might be doable just because it does support running without a JIT from some googling. I imagine it'll be slow as anything could be, but it might work.
./configure ..... . . . Package glib-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path

Looks not so bad. This not an absolute no ;)

This is not an assembler simulator (i'd enjoy having one, though), it's a 8-bit computer simulator that includes an assembler.
Cool project, I've been thinking about writing one for MIPS (I'm taking a computer architecture class this quarter :))
I did a very minimal one for MIPS, based on SPIM and written in Haskell. It was a fun project in learning and abstracting patterns. Highly recommended, IMO.
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How does it vibrate my android device on step?