#retro
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Classic demoscene productions run in the browser — recompiled to WebAssembly
The demoscene-recomp project takes the original DOS code of legendary early-1990s demos and turns it into WebAssembly instruction by instruction, preserving exact cycle timing.
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A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum, written entirely in Z80 assembly
An enthusiast going by mindbox77 has packed a windowed interface with menus, a file manager and settings into 48 KB — and it runs on a real 1982 machine.
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Executable Emoji: an x86 Program Made Entirely of Smileys
The author of the retro blog MartyPC discovered that the UTF-8 bytes of most emoji add up to valid 8088 machine code — and wrote a program in “emoji assembly” that prints “HELLO.”
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Defrag98: a browser-based simulator of the Windows 98 disk defragmenter
Defrag98 has surfaced online — a web page that recreates the hypnotic grid of the Windows 98 disk defragmenter. No practical use, just nostalgia.