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Playable here: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donkey/ http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk... "The above simul

Playable here: http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donkey/ http://www.pcjs.org/devices/pcx86/machine/5150/cga/64kb/donk... "The above simulation is configured for a clock speed of 4.77Mhz, with 64Kb of RAM and a CGA display, using the original IBM PC Model 5150 ROM BIOS and CGA font ROM. This configuration also includes a predefined state, with PC-DOS 1.0 already booted and DONKEY.BAS ready to run. And now that PCx86 automatically saves all your changes (subject to the limits of your browser’s local storage), you can even close the browser in the middle of a game of DONKEY, and the next time you load this page, your progress (and the donkey) will be perfectly restored."

godzillabrennus 10y ago
I'm disappointed that my iPhone can't drive the car because Apple didn't put directional keys on the onscreen keyboard.
- an_account 10y ago
  spacebar works (it's the only key needed).
  - hyperpallium 10y ago
    The "any" key also works, as well as the onscreen keys (e.g. F1) It's not surprising that this simulation of a 36 year old 4.77Mhz desktop runs fine in javascript on my 1.3GHz quadcore $40 phone... but in a way, it is.
    - voltagex_ 10y ago
      This makes me wonder how accurate the timing is. I've been looking at the Gameboy Link Cable, which seems to need very low latency. Are we there yet, in the browser?
      - TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
        It doesn't necessarily need accurate timing under emulation. The emulator is god: it can play with time as it likes.
        voltagex_ 10y ago
        More interesting to me is to connect a real Gameboy to an emulator, probably with the BGB protocol - http://bgb.bircd.org/bgblink.html http://bgb.bircd.org/bgblink.html
      - Shish2k 10y ago
        In the browser, I expect we are (like having two emulator instances in a single web page). Emulating a link cable via web sockets, now that gets interesting...
        ChickeNES 10y ago
        There are a couple of gameboy emulators that can communicate over a TCP connection, I imagine doing the same with Websockets would be fairly trivial.
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- acangiano 10y ago
  Try the letters l and r.
  - hclivess 10y ago
    mexican
    - sctb 10y ago
      Please comment civilly and substantively, or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- deepnet 10y ago
  For a sleepy minute there I thought you meant because you were driving and wanted to play donkey.bas while commuting in a self driving car
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- dogma1138 10y ago
  Use d and h for left and right worked for me.
  - Narishma 10y ago
    You only need one key. Any one except Esc will do.
nhunzaker 10y ago
Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I find this incredible.
JugMarker 10y ago
I find it hilarious, when you don't hit a donkey and it says "Donkey lost".
- city41 10y ago
  seems like a win-win situation to me.

godzillabrennus 10y ago

I'm disappointed that my iPhone can't drive the car because Apple didn't put directional keys on the onscreen keyboard.

an_account 10y ago
spacebar works (it's the only key needed).
- hyperpallium 10y ago
  The "any" key also works, as well as the onscreen keys (e.g. F1) It's not surprising that this simulation of a 36 year old 4.77Mhz desktop runs fine in javascript on my 1.3GHz quadcore $40 phone... but in a way, it is.
  - voltagex_ 10y ago
    This makes me wonder how accurate the timing is. I've been looking at the Gameboy Link Cable, which seems to need very low latency. Are we there yet, in the browser?
    - TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
      It doesn't necessarily need accurate timing under emulation. The emulator is god: it can play with time as it likes.
      - voltagex_ 10y ago
        More interesting to me is to connect a real Gameboy to an emulator, probably with the BGB protocol - http://bgb.bircd.org/bgblink.html http://bgb.bircd.org/bgblink.html
    - Shish2k 10y ago
      In the browser, I expect we are (like having two emulator instances in a single web page). Emulating a link cable via web sockets, now that gets interesting...
      - ChickeNES 10y ago
        There are a couple of gameboy emulators that can communicate over a TCP connection, I imagine doing the same with Websockets would be fairly trivial.
  - deleted 10y ago
    [deleted]
acangiano 10y ago
Try the letters l and r.
- hclivess 10y ago
  mexican
  - sctb 10y ago
    Please comment civilly and substantively, or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
deepnet 10y ago
For a sleepy minute there I thought you meant because you were driving and wanted to play donkey.bas while commuting in a self driving car
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dogma1138 10y ago
Use d and h for left and right worked for me.
- Narishma 10y ago
  You only need one key. Any one except Esc will do.

nhunzaker 10y ago

Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but I find this incredible.

JugMarker 10y ago

I find it hilarious, when you don't hit a donkey and it says "Donkey lost".

city41 10y ago
seems like a win-win situation to me.