Linux in Excel
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·April 30, 2025necovek
It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.
yjftsjthsd-h
Wouldn't help with cloud of course, but there's WINE for macOS, isn't there? Or does that version of Excel not allow loading binary libraries such that you could hand it a DLL if WINE translated it?
nxobject
mini-rv32ima is incredibly compact -- I imagine a translation to VBA might not be too hard.
dmitrygr
“ The emulator is built as a seperate dll which is loaded by the VBA macro. The VBA macro calls the emulator in the dll and gets the output and writes it into the cells in the spreadsheet. ”
Not really in excel. Excel is just the console. Emulator is a native DLL
jayd16
Excshell
userbinator
Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to run WINE in it, and thus another Excel inside that.
nailer
I just posted the ‘doom on a lightning adapter’ story, and saw this in submissions. I’ll have to tip my hat to the better bizarre ‘X on Y’ post. You win this time, radeeyate.
This is the insanity that I miss.