Each New Boot a Miracle – DOSBOX in the Browser(ascii.textfiles.com)

111 pointsby ingvevor 12 Jahren19 comments

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Each New Boot a Miracle – DOSBOX in the Browser

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4471

8 comments

lukastsaivor 12 Jahren

a mobile readable version:

https://getscroll.com/r/ldjaj

cardiffspacemanvor 12 Jahren

Get wordperfect 5.1 in there and you might make money. Not legal advice.

dangoorvor 12 Jahren

Or if you run WordStar, maybe you'll get George R.R. Martin to switch machines :)

Edit for context: http://www.cnet.com/news/at-game-of-thrones-premiere-nerds-c...

CrLfvor 12 Jahren

I doubt he uses WordStar because he likes it over the alternatives. He probably uses it to avoid distractions, and a new machine would negate that.

banevor 12 Jahren

Once again, Jason Scott and archive.org demonstrate why it might just be on of the crown jewels of the internet.

HCIdivision17vor 12 Jahren

There aren't many causes I feel donating to is unambiguously a good thing. Archive.org is just such a thing. I rarely feel a need to use the archive, but I literally sleep better at night knowing it exists, keeping our digital history from just fading out.

Being able to just fire up my childhood in the browser now? He said it well when he mentioned the programs being unable to recognize the science fiction universe they're running in. That's just how it makes me feel, too.

dmdvor 12 Jahren

Thank you for reminding me. I just made a subscription donation.

eruvor 12 Jahren

I wish Google would make their archives easier to browse for the general public.

nacsvor 12 Jahren

Just curious but wouldn't this do more harm than good?

I'm wondering if the increased exposure from Google having a full index of Archive content would result in past/current copyright owners requesting things get taken down from the Archive as they already do from Google's current index.

nitrogenvor 12 Jahren

This was a delight to read. The nostalgia and writing style combined to let me feel the author's excitement about the emulator. Great work.

_asummersvor 12 Jahren

If you've not seen any of Jason Scott's other work, I personally recommend his talks on the Prince of Persia[0], Mario 64[1], and crackers fighting crackers via crack screens[2]. [3] This one is just funny.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wz7_-WXwFg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AceLYWE1Q

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r65WwO1-uA

wallflowervor 12 Jahren

Re: Prince of Persia.

If you've never spent twelve hours straight reading a development journal - Jordan Mechner's is one of the best.

http://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/

mattdotcvor 12 Jahren

Thanks for the links! Just watched the third and thoroughly enjoyed it.

tdicolavor 12 Jahren

Awesome work! Do any classic DOS demos work like Second Reality?

aikahvor 12 Jahren

Praise the lord emscripten.

endgamevor 12 Jahren

That picture of ZZT was a kick in the nostalgia. That game did more to get me into programming than just about anything else.

iso8859-1vor 12 Jahren

How does em-dosbox compare to jsdosbox: https://jsdosbox.appspot.com/ ?

jsdosbox is a GWT compiled modified jDosbox, a port to Java.

vitovitovor 12 Jahren

I don't know how performance compares, but from an ongoing maintenance perspective, em-dosbox is simpler: it's regular dosbox passed through the emscripten toolchain. It's more likely to see performance improvements and support, and so greater longevity.

It's the same reason JSMESS is emscripten MESS, instead of a collection of native JavaScript emulators.

pygy_vor 12 Jahren

IIRC, jDOSBox handles page faults better than the original DOSBox, and therefore, it can run more versions of Windows.

Kind of like the unofficial DOSBox X branch.