JSDosbox

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35 points·mikemoka··12 comments

There's also Em-DOSBox, a port of DOSBox to JS using emscripten: https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox

It powers the Internet Archive's DOS games library, and also https://win95.ajf.me/ (Windows 95 in your browser!), the latter being my own project (hi!).

Related - "What makes DosBox on web.archive.org so slow despite JIT?"

http://stackoverflow.com/q/35361954/1091116

Is it bad I'm still turned off by anything hosted on sourceforge? Even after the recent changes.

I wasn't aware of any changes. What did they change?

Under new management, they discontinued the bundled adware, started scanning all projects for malware, and are shown that they're serious about trying to repair damage to the brand caused by the previous owner [1][2].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-...

[2] https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...

Thanks for the reminder. I somehow missed or forgotten that, and continued to be heavily biased against them. Hopefully they'll succeed in bringing SourceForge back to a respectable level.

They were bought in January and the new owners have reverted a lot of the heavily criticized policies and try to gain trust back. (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752)

No, damage has been done. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...

That's a pretty terrible adage when it's different people. Unless you're applying that rule to all program downloads across the web.

Internet archive already has a bunch of dos games emulated inside browser, free to play.

Please. Not sourceforge.

Sourceforge has recently changed owners and the first changes was to get rid of any adware etc so I personally think we should give them a chance.

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