Category Archives: Emulation

30 Days of Stuff

Posted on December 30, 2017 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, free-range archivist, reporting in as 2017 draws to a close. As part of our end-of-year fundraising drive, I thought it might be fun to tweet highlighted parts of the vast stacks of content that the Internet Archive makes … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Cool items, Emulation, Image Archive, Movie Archive, Music, Software Archive, Video Archive, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 8 Comments

Early Macintosh Emulation Comes to the Archive

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Jason Scott

After offering in-browser emulation of console games, arcade machines, and a range of other home computers, the Internet Archive can now emulate the early models of the Apple Macintosh, the black-and-white, mouse driven computer that radically shifted the future of … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, News, Software Archive | 15 Comments

The Internet Arcade becomes an Archive Reality

Posted on November 17, 2016 by Jason Scott

A couple years back, we introduced the Internet Arcade, which enabled people around the world to play a number of Arcade titles from the last 40 years in their browsers, instantly. We’ve also had collections of console games, and a … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Cool items, Emulation | 9 Comments

The Hidden Shifting Lens of Browsers

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Jason Scott

Some time ago, I wrote about the interesting situation we had with emulation and Version 51 of the Chrome browser – that is, our emulations stopped working in a very strange way and many people came to the Archive’s inboxes … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Technical, Wayback Machine - Web Archive | 2 Comments

Those Hilarious Times When Emulations Stop Working

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Jason Scott

Jason Scott, Software Curator and Your Emulation Buddy, writing in. With tens of thousands of items in the archive.org stacks that are in some way running in-browser emulations, we’ve got a pretty strong library of computing history afoot, with many more joining … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive, Technical | 2 Comments

Saving 500 Apple II Programs from Oblivion

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Jason Scott

Among the tens of thousands of computer programs now emulated in the browser at the Internet Archive, a long-growing special collection has hit a milestone: the 4am Collection is now past 500 available Apple II programs preserved for the first time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive | 12 Comments

Internet Archive Does Windows: Hundreds of Windows 3.1 Programs Join the Collection

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Jason Scott

Microsoft Windows was, to some people, too little, too late. Released as Version 1.0 in 1985, the graphic revolution was already happening elsewhere, with other computer operating systems – but Microsoft was determined to catch up, no matter what it … Continue reading →

Posted in Emulation, Software Archive | 100 Comments

NEW at the Archive Store! MS-DOS “Game Not Over!” T-Shirt

Posted on June 5, 2015 by jeff kaplan

Designed by Jason Scott, the new “Game Not Over!” T-shirt is a celebration of the over 2,000 MS-DOS games that are once again available to play on archive.org. The shirt is currently available in a number of sizes at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool items, Emulation, News, Software Archive | 2 Comments