Hi all, I've made a proof-of-concept Web port for NetHack. You can try it here: http://coolwanglu.github.io/BrowserHack/
I'm kind of surprised that I could not find any working existing NetHack port with Emscripten, except for this one: http://moxielogic.org/blog/nethack-in-your-browser.html which is a port of the terminal version and does not well quite well. It's a tasteful and playable, which means that you can explore, fight with enemies etc. But it's still in its very early stage, many features are missing (most notably, menus), so please do not reply on it. Two things I found interesting while building the project: 1. A few intermediate binaries are built during the build process, which are used to generate C macros and level files. At first I tried to build the project twice, native and JS, and the necessary files are generated with the native binaries. Unfortunately the game did not work that way, complaining about corrupt data files. It turned out that the size of C structures mismatch between the two builds, so they cannot share data files. Then I built the utility files also in JS, and tried to execute them with Node.js. It kind of worked, except for that NODEFS has to be mounted manually in order to make it actually read and write files on the disk -- I did that by injecting pre-js files. 2. This is another old project that supports systems way back to Amiga. And we may expect lots of synchronous stuffs. EMTERPRETER_ADVISE showed that 66% of all the functions are ASYNC. Fortunately interpreting all the functions is still fast enough. If you are interested, please help me implement missing features and design the interface. I feel that it could be the easiest, among all other port, to share/apply different tilesets/levels. regards, - Lu Wang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
