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Describe the thing you half-remember and it opens the right page
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A quietly useful lesson in cheap emulation: a RAM snapshot and 256 KB on-demand chunks let a static page serve a 1995 CD-ROM with no server behind it.
v86 boots a Windows 95 disk in the browser with the Encarta 95 CD mounted, and a saved RAM snapshot drops you into a running copy rather than a boot sequence and a launch. Both disks stream in 256 KB pieces as the program asks for them, which is why a static page on GitHub Pages can do this at all. Articles live on hash routes, so you can link someone straight to one, and Mind Maze is in there. Thirty-nine commits; the maker calls the implementation brittle, and self-hosting means supplying the CD image from the Internet Archive yourself.
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