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.
userbinator•3h ago
Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to run WINE in it, and thus another Excel inside that.
necovek•3h ago
It runs on neither MacOS nor Excel cloud though, as it depends on a Windows DLL.
yjftsjthsd-h•2h ago
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•2h ago
mini-rv32ima is incredibly compact -- I imagine a translation to VBA might not be too hard.
tinktank•3h ago
This is the insanity that I miss.
dmitrygr•3h ago
“ 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•2h ago
Excshell
ChocolateGod•1h ago
Execell
zipping1549•1h ago
Still funny
nogajun•1h ago
Linux can run on Excel, but not Excel on Linux.
valorzard•1h ago
Would this same trick work on LibreOffice Calc?
shakna•1h ago
Probably not. It calls out to a DLL library for most of the work. One that, unfortunately, is 32bit.
Libre Calc can load 64bit Excel plugins, but not 32bit (at the moment).
padde•59m ago
Any practical use cases come to mind? Could you actually interact from Excel cells with Linux userspace, e.g. running a cell's value through a bash script as if applying a formula?
aussieguy1234•55m ago
Excel > Linux > Wine > Excel...to infinity?
ngcazz•19m ago
I thought for a second this would be about the use of a spreadsheet as a general computation device.
nailer•4h ago