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It is loading a Windows 95 VM (using https://copy.sh/v86/) and runs an actual copy of Encarta 95 there, yeah.

OP wrote: "difficult task"...

It's just a crappy render of a Windows VM's display, in all it's upscaled pixelated glory, it's not even doing anything webby like a Javascript engine that decodes whatever database Encarta used and rendered the data in crisp HTML.

If they had asked AI to do all the above, I'd be more impressed than this (I'm guessing) human-made slop...

You talk so much about slop examples, can you provide a non-slop example to show you know the difference?

I can, but in this instance I don't care to fulfill your wishes. If you can't figure out the difference, you're on your own.

I guess? I agree that parsing out the articles and rendering them in the HTML would make it more readable. But the author didn’t just throw together Win95 and Encarta in a VM and call it a day, there are subtle tweaks here so I think calling it “human slop” is incorrect.

(For example, there’s some URL magic going on -- articles you open show up in the fragment portion, e.g. #/article/Art -- which is non-trivial considering you have to pass that information into the VM and back.)

and includes AoE 2 :D

And PovRay, Super Pi and some other stuff...

Actually, I didn't know that one could ship a pre-booted OS inside the emulator.

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