M68k assembly emulator that runs in the browser
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HN · launched Mar 17, 2026 · 19 upvotes (top 27%) · 0 views
Niche: software and system emulators · 114 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -70% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Building an emulator for the Motorola 68000 instruction set architecture requires deep assembly-level hardware emulation knowledge and cycle-accurate decoding.
What it would actually take: The project requires implementing an accurate M68k CPU core (emulating all user and supervisor instructions, addressing modes, condition code registers, and exception handling), memory mapping, and peripherals, compiled to WebAssembly or native JavaScript. It demands deep retro-computing and CPU systems expertise to properly emulate undocumented flags, pipeline behaviors, and cycle counts.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 736 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #228 of 737 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 136 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Running Win32/DirectX games in the browser via x86 emulation and WebGPU · hn · 2026-07-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Esp32sim · hn · 2026-10-17 · 207 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- WebTerm · hn · 2026-01-18 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- BrowserCode · hn · 2026-05-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Write, simulate and synthesize VHDL/Verilog in the browser · hn · 2026-07-23 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I wrote a 1-bit WebGPU runtime to run a 1.7B LLM in the browser · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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