Compiling the original Unreal Tournament to wasm so it all runs in the browser! https://www.icculus.org/ut99-emscripten/
Related Posts
The games console market is fascinating: there's incentive to *not* provide upgraded models.
You want the guarantee that a game for $X just works on any $X purchased.
E.g. the Switch OLED has a bigger screen, and a better CPU than the original, but it's downclocked to match the original Switch's CPU.
WebAssembly seems like a totally reasonable bytecode format, but I've not had many opportunities to use it so far.
Has wasm found its 'killer app' yet?
Today I learnt that the original name for DOS was QDOS, for "Quick and Dirty Operating System"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#QDOS
(Seems rather unfortunate that they dropped the Q.)