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JSDosbox

35 points by mikemoka 10y ago

JoshGlazebrook 10y ago
Is it bad I'm still turned off by anything hosted on sourceforge? Even after the recent changes.
- mashlol 10y ago
  I wasn't aware of any changes. What did they change?
  - niftich 10y ago
    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-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-... [2] https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
    - TeMPOraL 10y ago
      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.
  - detaro 10y ago
    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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752)
- mmanfrin 10y ago
  No, damage has been done. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
  - Dylan16807 10y ago
    That's a pretty terrible adage when it's different people. Unless you're applying that rule to all program downloads across the web.
TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
There's also Em-DOSBox, a port of DOSBox to JS using emscripten: https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox It powers the Internet Archive's DOS games library, and also https://win95.ajf.me/ https://win95.ajf.me/ (Windows 95 in your browser!), the latter being my own project (hi!).
- d33 10y ago
  Related - "What makes DosBox on web.archive.org so slow despite JIT?" http://stackoverflow.com/q/35361954/1091116 http://stackoverflow.com/q/35361954/1091116
ianpurton 10y ago
Please. Not sourceforge.
- kyriakos 10y ago
  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.
em3rgent0rdr 10y ago
Internet archive already has a bunch of dos games emulated inside browser, free to play.

JSDosbox

35 points by mikemoka 10y ago

JoshGlazebrook 10y ago

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

mashlol 10y ago
I wasn't aware of any changes. What did they change?
- niftich 10y ago
  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-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-... [2] https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    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.
- detaro 10y ago
  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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752)
mmanfrin 10y ago
No, damage has been done. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
- Dylan16807 10y ago
  That's a pretty terrible adage when it's different people. Unless you're applying that rule to all program downloads across the web.

TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago

There's also Em-DOSBox, a port of DOSBox to JS using emscripten: https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox It powers the Internet Archive's DOS games library, and also https://win95.ajf.me/ https://win95.ajf.me/ (Windows 95 in your browser!), the latter being my own project (hi!).

d33 10y ago
Related - "What makes DosBox on web.archive.org so slow despite JIT?" http://stackoverflow.com/q/35361954/1091116 http://stackoverflow.com/q/35361954/1091116

ianpurton 10y ago

Please. Not sourceforge.

kyriakos 10y ago
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.

em3rgent0rdr 10y ago

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