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You can make PS2 games in JavaScript

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230 points tosh | 1 comments | 21 Nov 25 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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kamranjon ◴[21 Nov 25 17:48 UTC] No.46006802[source]▶
This is pretty incredibly - Fabrice Bellard builds stuff that just has such a wide spread impact - so cool that QuickJS enabled an old system like PS2 to have a bit of a homebrew revival through this AthenaEnv project
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mschuster91 ◴[21 Nov 25 18:20 UTC] No.46007148[source]▶
My photoshop skills are near zero, otherwise I'd have long gone and edited xkcd 2347 [1] to say next to the pillar "Something Fabrice Bellard probably implemented while half asleep just to prove he could do it".

There's a lot of FOSS projects that have something written by him in their dependency chain.

[1] https://xkcd.com/2347/

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0x1ch ◴[21 Nov 25 20:10 UTC] No.46008408[source]▶
Looked him up, he quite literally pushed the first commits of QEMU ever. Edit: And was the sole developer until 2007!
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1. deaddodo ◴[21 Nov 25 22:19 UTC] No.46009698[source]▶
Fabrice’s DNA is infused in the FOSS ecosystem. He’s an avid and prolific developer. FFMpeg, Qemu, libbf, softfp, BPG, jslinux, etc, etc, etc.