Comments on: Bringing back the WinZork demo via jsDOSBox https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/ Fun with Virtualization Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:44:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-131125 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:44:28 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=4976#comment-131125 In reply to Kevin O’Dwyer.

awesome, I’ll be sure to check it out!

]]> By: Kevin O'Dwyer https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-131117 Sat, 14 Feb 2015 10:39:40 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=4976#comment-131117 new jsdosbox release. Adds better mouse control, and other graphic modes.

]]> By: kevin o'dwyer https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-130577 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:00:31 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=4976#comment-130577 In reply to neozeed.

Networking would be great. Certainly doable, but beyond me i’m afraid. At this point i think emdosbox is the superior option. It uses the emscripten dev chain, i still use GWT for jsdosbox (may change to another method). Js ES6 includes yield/generators which is an option for implementing threading. There is even a few neat VM implementations that run inside a Js VM providing threads.

]]> By: Peter Godwin https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-130544 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:12:33 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=4976#comment-130544 In reply to neozeed.

Oh wow – that’d be cool – modems over WebRTC!

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-130543 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:40:59 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=4976#comment-130543 In reply to Kevin O’Dwyer.

I havent dived under the hood of DOSBox, but I have tried to port Basilisk II, and had issues because of the threadding.. I cheated and manually called the thread periodically from within the main loop. Of course for some reason SDL doesn’t update anything in the video area, but I know the loop runs via some debug printing.

How do you debug emscripten stuff anyways?

Oh and features? Of course I want modems to work! .. As much as I hate to be *that* user, but this would be the ultimate doom party thing.

]]> By: Kevin O'Dwyer https://virtuallyfun.com/2015/01/26/bringing-back-the-winzork-demo-via-jsdosbox/comment-page-1/#comment-130537 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:26:54 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=4976#comment-130537 Cool demo! Sorry about the mouse control. It is now the top priority for the february release. If you have any dev requests, please send them through. The reason .bat files can’t be executed is connected to why boot hasn’t been implemented and it is related to the single-threaded world of js (and my lack of skill). As a workaround I am sure back in the day there was dos programs to compile .bat to .com. I’m now inspired to see if i can run parts of https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/wiki/XFDOS. I am also working on a request to improve a demo of an emulator for an 8-bit microcomputer running inside this emulator.

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