Well ever since Oracle managed to screw up Java into a mass of uselessness, it looks like javascript is going to save the day.
Yes that javascript.
That emscripten compiler now can build DOSBox. Â Thats right, you can run DOSBox in your browser. Â For more infomation check out EMDOSBox.
It works great with Chrome.
DOOM!
Check out this site, which has many games all configured.
I’ll have to convert out all my old stuff, which is just as well since java is effectively dead.
Do you think JS will replace Java?
Considering the zero deployment possibility it sure has the possibility. Emscripten really is a game changer, being able to run C. Flash 10 was in the same direction before everyone piled on and drove to kill Flash.
If I had to do some web deployment thing today I wouldn’t waste a second with Java. Its beyond a disaster right now.
Works much faster in FF, maybe due to asm.js. At least Doom.
You might be interested in this: the Internet Archive uses an emscripten translated version of DosBox to run games in your browser: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4471
I’m gonna try SIMH + BSD.
Ever since I ran Quasijarus on SIMH I’ve been hooked… getting 4.2 to boot up was an awesome moment tho!
An MS-DOS build of SIMH in JS-DOS or adding emscripten as target to SIMH? Anyway, keep us posted.
I actually did that a while back… It was ungodly slow… I did the uVAX booting 4.2BSD.
Obviously the faster thing is to port SIMH directly to the browser.
Which I should imagine should be easy to do, if I knew more about browsers…… lol