Man, you're my hero! 2016-11-10 5:39 GMT+03:00 Danoon <[email protected]>:
> I ported Dosbox to Java, so most of my knowledge of the emulation comes > from the Dosbox project. > > After I got Dos games to work in Java, my goal became to get Win95/98 era > games to run in a browser using Java. Originally I started messing around > with writing my own windows libraries in Java, I even got Age of Empire to > run. I thought there wouldn't be that much to do just to get games > working, but I was wrong. After Oracles messed up Java in the browser I > switch to c/emscripten and so far I've been pretty happy with that decision. > > I tried to retarget Wine to compile for Windows/Emscripten directly. I > implemented a port for all the libc calls, it started to work, but it was > really just too much work for one person. Implementing about 100 Linux > system calls and few devices got me pretty far and was for more > manageable. Basically BoxedWine is a Linux kernel emulator that can run a > lot of Linux stuff, including XOrg, dpkg, etc. But Wine with XOrg had a > lot processes and all those moving pieces were a pain to debug. Last time > I was messing with it, I had a hang between XOrg and the window manager. > Plus the file system size was larger than I wanted. I removed XOrg by > writing a replacement for winex11.drv. So now I don't need XOrg and all of > its dependencies. > > The Linux syscall emulation is original and based on documentation and > trial and error. I'm sure there are still quite a few bugs in it. mmap > still isn't quite right. > > Currently I'm trying to get Win16 games to work because they have a low > CPU requirement. A lot of simple games are already working well. > > The demo link I originally posted now shows a Win16 Pacman clone. > > On a recent Core i5 I get about 33MHz (Pentium) in Emscripten, so not > bad. With some tweaking it should be in the realm of possibility to play > some Win95/98 games that targeted a Pentium 66 > > > On Friday, October 28, 2016 at 10:15:28 AM UTC-7, Alon Zakai wrote: >> >> Wow, impressive! >> >> What does this use to render, btw? >> >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Danoon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've been experimenting with getting Wine to run in Emscripten with the >>> goal to play Win95/Win98 era games. It has a long way to go, but I thought >>> I would share a demo of notepad running. So far I've been pretty impressed >>> with the performance that Emscripten gives. >>> >>> http://boxedwine.sf.net/b2/boxedwine.html >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- > 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. > -- С уважением, Гурьянов Александр -- 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.
