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Rendering "modern" Winamp skins in the browser
Writing an interpreter for a custom bytecode opens the door for rendering interactive custom Winamp skins in the browser
TL;DR several years ago I got a proof of concept working where I was able to render highly interactive “modern” Winamp skins in the browser by reverse engineering Maki byte code and implementing an interpreter for it in JavaScript. The new engine was powered by XML files describing the UI, which was made interactive via skinner defined scripts written in a bespoke language called MAKI (”Make a killer interface”). The API surface was just to large for me to complete with my available time, and even figuring out what the expected behavior of any class/method/property was required hours of manual trial and error in Winamp.
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