Online Retro Emulators: Windows 1.0, Mac OS 8, ZX81, C64, Atari ST & More!

15 Retro computing emulators that run online! Relive the early days of computing in your browser (but do remember to pause to eat and sleep).

My “ZX81 Classic PC” video (and in this title I was using the term “PC” in its general sense!) is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM_d37vMtEA

And I also have a video on DOSBox Retro gaming here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMe4O5WhtJQ

The full list of online emulators and associated websites shown in this video is as follows:

PCjs Machines: https://www.pcjs.org/

Windows 1.0 (1985): https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/1.00/

Space Invaders (1978): https://www.pcjs.org/machines/arcade/invaders/

VisiCalc spreadsheet (1981): https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/app/other/visicalc/1981/

CP/M-86 (1983): https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/cpm/1.1b/

Windows 3.1 (1992): https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/

Windows 95 (1995): https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/win95/4.00.950/

Infinite Mac project: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html

Mac OS 8 (1997): https://macos8.app/

Mac System 7 (1995): https://system7.app/

Mac OS 9: (1999) https://macos9.app/

VIC-20 (1980 as test in Japan, 1981 Europe/US): https://www.mdawson.net/vic20chrome/vic20.php

Commodore 64 (1982): https://c64emulator.111mb.de/

Atari ST (1985): https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/atari-st/

ZX81 (1981, as T/S 1000 in 1982): http://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html

ZX Spectrum (1982): https://jsspeccy.zxdemo.org/

JSSpeccy 3 GitHub: https://github.com/gasman/jsspeccy3

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:49 Windows 1.0
04:29 Mac OS 8
07:11 1980s Home Microcomputers
07:54 Commodore 64
08:47 Atari ST
10:29 ZX81 (T/S 1000)
13:40 ZX Spectrum
16:48 Wrap

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