Playing Games on the JPC Emulator Applet

I love old PC emulators. They are applications that simulate the architecture of computers that were in their heyday about twenty years ago. The obvious question is why bother? Well, the same reason anyone had a computer back then, to play games! I'm not sure why but there is something really entertaining in playing a game I used to spend hours trying to master when I was a kid. Anyone remember Chuckie Egg?

So, I was delighted to find that there's a cool Java Applet that emulates the old x86 machines. Anything that used to run on the IBM PCsOn the website they claim that the JPC applet came about because of number crunching particle physicists. But secretly I think they just wanted to spend their afternoons playing Space Invaders.