
By providing this method of calling in software, historians and academics and the merely curious can get near-instantaneous access to the gist of these early programming works. not so much examples of Wordperfect, Peachtree Accounting, or the Atari TOS. Games like Pac-Man' or Super Mario have been re-done many times and provided in all manner of online and offline presentations. While nothing beats having vintage, well-maintained computer hardware to show what software "was", it requires advocacy and often physical presence to do so.


While a number of emulation solutions exist that allow much of what is wanted, they nearly all require plugins and most are directed towards a single machine or small sets of machines. The goal is to provide a ubiquitous, flexible, comprehensive-as-possible emulator that will appear in as many browsers as possible without installing a plugin or runtime.If you have a problem building JSMESS or have a feature suggestion, feel free to open up an issue on our issue tracker. The source code can be found on its GitHub page. Information on how to build JSMESS, the status of JSMESS, and the future of JSMESS can be found out on its GitHub Wiki. It will have spotty performance elsewhere. The latest versions of Chrome and Firefox run JSMESS emulators the best.

The JSMESS home page links to every system which MESS v0.142u6 supports, although not all systems have their required ROM files and game files in the right place yet, so some of them just spin the disk loader icon forever.

The main JSMESS site has some classic software demos guaranteed to work.
