Run old games in DOSBox in the browser

Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by mirrorskin on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:14AM (#2876411)

Looks interesting, but after activating Native Client, I just see a black box in Chrome 15.0.849.1 dev on OS X 10.6.8 – anybody else has that issue? Or do the games only work on Windows?

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by jessexoc on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:28AM (#2876450)

Similar issue here on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit:

  Chrome - 14.0.835.15 dev
  Chromium - 14.0.803.0 (Developer Build 90483 Linux) Ubuntu 10.10

I am getting a 403 when trying to load the dosbox client (http://nacl.naclbox.com/dosbox_14.nmf).

I wonder the server is refusing this request if the user-agent is not in their white list?

Or perhaps they are limiting it based on Country due to Copyright Issues?

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by jbri on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:40AM (#2876476)

I also get a 403 trying to load what you've linked, but dosbox_13.nmf loads fine and so do the games.

It determines the filename based on the major version number in the useragent - it would probably work fine if your browser reported chrome 13.something.

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by shrikant on Friday August 12, 2011 @10:52AM (#2877488)

I was on 14.0.835.2 (Win7) and had a similar issue (black box, and very laggy scrolling). Once the GPU compositing and GPU accelerated drawing options marked out here [1] are disabled, the issues went away.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/COxPY.jpg

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by vmind on Friday August 12, 2011 @05:21AM (#2876564)

Looks like the dosbox is loaded depending on which version of chrome you're running, and there's only 12 and 13 up, so 14/15 tries to get a file that doesn't exist.

Bit of silly coding, given the ABI is fixed from 13 onwards.

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by zerd on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:53AM (#2876510)

Works on 64bit OSX, Chrome 13.0.782.112

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by buster on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:22AM (#2876433)

They run at least on Linux 64 Bit.

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Re:Run old games in DOSBox in the browser by Cushman on Friday August 12, 2011 @04:22AM (#2876431)

Same here. Chrome 13, OS X 10.7.

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