JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated
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HN comment orderDid the person doing this get his permission? Seems unclear from the readme. The readable source code of the JS PC emulator itself is not yet available. At this point, any mirroring or redistribution of the code needs my explicit permission http://bellard.org/jslinux/faq.html
Author of the repo here. I didn't expect to see this come up again, it was a weekend project done years ago while I was studying x86 internals and emulation. There are much cleaner emulators to study in JS: for the x86 family, I recommend v86 https://github.com/copy/v86 For general emulation, RISC architectures are much simpler to understand, jor1k https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k performs very well, and can simulate the OpenRISC 1000 architecture as well as RISC-V (32bit only). There's also the 64bit ANGEL…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-19 | JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotatedFirst breakout · Best thread | luu | 160 | 31 |
| 2015-11-02 | JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, hand deobfuscated and annotatedLatest 20+ point return | nkurz | 110 | 12 |
| 2018-06-14 | Jslinux-deobfuscated: JSLinux rewritten to be human readable | aparashk | 1 | 0 |