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Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by fallous on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:08AM (#50348983)
Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 115.44.0esr
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by hhthrowaway1230 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:18AM (#50349034)
Wow! Now all we need is Fasttracker 2 and then 90's music revival is done! Great work. Don't forget to check the demo songs and TGV kilomix from bar 30 or smth.
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by skrebbel on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:58AM (#50349283)
You might appreciate 8bitbubsy's FT2 clone for Windows/Linux/Mac: https://16-bits.org/ft2.php

It's a very impressive clone, works very well (pre AI!). The only downside is it doesn't have the "Space Pigs" theme.

Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by vegnus on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:21AM (#50352338)
Yes these ports are awesome. I ported his ProTracker 2 port to android back in February. Still use it from time to time.
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by thm on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:42AM (#50349199)
There's an influx of vibe-coded RB clones, ports, etc. in their FB group. https://rb.varyform.info is probably one of the better ones.
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by skrebbel on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:13AM (#50349375)
Wow that's impressive indeed. That said, it sounds way worse than the OG Rebirth did, eg the open hihat is just white noise I think instead of a proper 909 hihat.
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by vegnus on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:20AM (#50352329)
yeah this was a response to that. i think most people are attracted to this program because of its sound and aeshetic. I mean its not hard at all to set up a rack with 2 303's, an 808 and a 909. That's why I figured that it should be available in it's original state, rather than a copy
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by JeffeFawkes on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:43AM (#50349200)
Nice! Curious about the approach, seems like it's boxedwine running in the browser? emulating x86 I assume?
Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by flohofwoe on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:47AM (#50349225)
More like Windows running in browser running Rebirth 338 (at least going by all the 'wine' in filenames) ;)

The webpage is loading an incredible amount of tiny compressed .js files (600 bytes each) which then decompress into 428 KBytes each, but then also loads two massive zip files (one around 100 MB, the other around 150 MB). I'd look into what's up with those tiny .js files, that can't be good for initial start time (it takes several minutes here on 50 MBit DSL).

Re:Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser by efxhoy on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:47AM (#50349585)
In firefox I can't see the mouse pointer, I have to hit escape to get it "back" but as soon as I click something it disappears.