DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by pygy_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @11:57AM (#2532921)

It's nice, but the porter didn't publish the source code (DOSBox is GPLed) and has adds splattered on every page of his site :-/.

Publishing the source wouldn't have hurt his income and would have prevented some bad advertising.

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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by dragmorp_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:49PM (#2534228)

The source code is available on the about page now. The direct link is here: http://nacl.naclbox.com/naclbox_patch.zip

Incidentally, I had to explain to my wife why I had to jump on the computer immediately when getting home from work and I never thought I would see the day when I would be chastised by my wife over a GPL violation. :)

The DOSBox folks and the Google engineers working on Native Client are geniuses. By comparison, my C++ skills are only slightly more sophisticated than the monkeys you see throwing poo at the zoo. :)

Take a look at what I hacked together. I had a lot of fun working on it over the last couple of weeks.

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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by cosgroveb on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @12:06PM (#2532966)

Yeah, I don't think the old loophole of running GPL'ed code on your server would apply here since DOSBox would be downloaded and executed in the browser. He has to release the source.

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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by pygy_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @12:21PM (#2533023)

Furthermore, he didn't just adapt the build scripts. The game files are not mounted from a discreet disk image, he made a hack to get them available from the DOSBox internal Z: drive (which isn't actually a disk image but the interface to internal functions).

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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by dragmorp_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:50PM (#2534230)

I love that you tracked this down. I was definitely "pragmatic" when working on this port.

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Re:DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some ga... by dragmorp_ on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @05:51PM (#2534234)

Oh, one more thing. My goal with the site is to share the port and be able to pay the bandwidth bills hosting the demos. It's definitely not my day job. :)

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