Start the web terminal

You can run the Altair emulator on your local computer or with a cloud service like Azure Static website hosting in Azure Storage.

The following instructions are for running the Altair emulator on your local computer.

Ensure Python 3 is installed on your computer.
```
python3 --version
```
If Python 3 is not installed, refer to the Python 3 installation instructions.
Open a terminal window and navigate to the Terminal folder of the Altair emulator project you cloned from GitHub.
```
cd Terminal
```
Start the Python web server.
```
python3 -m http.server 80
```
Open a web browser and navigate to the following URL. This assumes the Altair emulator is running on the same computer as the web browser.
```
http://localhost
```

If the Altair emulator is running on a different computer then add the hostname or the IP address of the computer running the Altair emulator to the altair parameter of the localhost URL.
```
http://localhost?altair=HOSTNAME_OR_IP_ADDRESS
```