Comments on: 8 bit boy & JS-DOS

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:31:53 +0000

In reply to jpxfrd.

Also the old Google code site:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/8bitboy/

No idea why it all disappeared

By: neozeed

neozeed — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 22:06:19 +0000

In reply to jpxfrd.

Try the internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20170109114352/http://8bitboy.popforge.de

And the JavaScript version lives on GitHub

https://github.com/defrac/defrac-sample-8bitboy

By: jpxfrd

jpxfrd — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:25:35 +0000

It says the site no longer exists and the only other place i could find 8bitboy was some random site on bored button. What happened to the site? D:

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:07:43 +0000

In reply to Danoon. I'll have to pack it up better, but anyways it does run, but the font's are all messed up. So you really can't read anything. I went ahead and tried QuickC for Windows for the heck of it, but the lack of win87em.dll causes it to panic. I packed up it and QC here. Awesome job again tho! This is super cool!

By: Danoon

Danoon — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:40:54 +0000

I looked at winzork. I’m not familiar with Windows 3.0, but the zork.exe doesn’t look like a Win16 file, it’s reporting as a dos file. I get a Bad EXE format msg from Wine.

Yeah, it’s using Emscripten. BoxedWine is partial x86 CPU emulator that can run apps (not OS’s). I implemented enough of the Linux system calls so that it can run an unmodified 32-bit build of Wine for Linux. My goal is to run old Windows games in a platform independent way, using C and SDL, without a copy of Windows, like what Dosbox did for Dos.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 01:29:22 +0000

In reply to Danoon. Wow that's amazing! I'm surprised anything works!!!! Years ago I had done a f2c port of dungeon (Zork) to Windows 3.0 using QuickC for Windows. It'd be cool to see it it works.... It looks like emscripten, right? So I'd imagine it's let you also do native builds for non x86 machines?

By: Danoon

Danoon — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:46:38 +0000

I’m also disappointed with what happened to Java in the browser, which is why I stopped working on Java Dosbox.

I’m now working on getting 16-bit and 32-bit older games to run in a browser using javascript and Wine. It probably won’t run most things your throw at it yet, but here are some demos if you’re interested.

http://boxedwine.sourceforge.net/b4/games.html

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 19:33:39 +0000

In reply to The Flash. hm thats odd. The MD5 of f0cefca49926d00903cf57551d901abe puts this as the 1.9 shareware wad.

By: The Flash

The Flash — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 18:03:52 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Okay, because the one on your jsdosbox page was missing a secret in E1M1.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 15:56:36 +0000

In reply to The Flash. changes in question are: [d71efe] Add some slightly better demo skip logic. v1.1 has version 1 & 2 demos. v1.2 has 2 & 3. version 1&2 crash this engine hard. 2017-08-19 06:04:45 Tree [ef7225] Better fix for WIMINUS, now the Doom v1.1 registered WAD can change levels. 2017-08-19 02:48:58 Tree [bd265b] Let the menus work for the DooM v1.1 commercial wad. There is no nightmare mode, so detect it. 2017-08-19 02:21:23 Tree [7af961] Minor changes to make older WADS directly playable. v1.0/v1.1 won't work from the menu as there is no nightmare mode... 2017-08-19 02:02:47 Tree [9dc0df] The STTMINUS thing was added no doubt pretty late.. So I put in a little logic to detect if it's there, and now I can load older wad's. 2017-08-18 15:23:22 Tree