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A browser-based Apple Lisa emulator in Rust and WebAssembly
A hardware-level Apple Lisa emulator in Rust and WebAssembly that boots LisaOS in a browser, built largely by autonomous AI agent loops.
Credits
- Reddit poster Adam_Jesion Source ↗
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The full story
The poster built a hardware-level Apple Lisa emulator in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly, that runs LisaOS in a browser with no local build needed. They gathered every technical document they could find on the Lisa's hardware, ROM behaviour, memory map, disk protocol, MMU and boot process, then set an agent a concrete goal: a visible LisaOS desktop with working input.
Much of the work was done by autonomous Codex and Claude loops, which read the documentation, wrote debugging tools, inspected logs and patched the emulator. The poster reports that it works.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Apple Lisa Emulator in Rust and WebAssembly - The Machine That Thought It Was 1983 AgainReddit poster: Adam_JesionPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
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