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Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to play in the browser
- homarp 10y agoconsider also "a lot (1010 as I type) of Apple 2 games cracked again, with a documentation on how it's done" https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am&tab=about https://archive.org/details/apple_ii_library_4am&tab=about
- rabidrat 10y agoNot in my browser: "ActiveGS only works on Windows or Mac!"
- 1001101 10y agoLikewise, I was hoping to get in a game of Thexder. What is this "ActiveGS," and can it be trusted?
- sp332 10y agoDoes this work better? https://archive.org/details/a2gs_Thexder_1987_Sierra https://archive.org/details/a2gs_Thexder_1987_Sierra The Archive also has DOS and Tandy versions, maybe others.
- Lukman 10y agoThe ActiveGS Chrome extension required to run the games on this site is broken, and the code hasn't been updated in two years: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/activegs/nhndampajkkhamolmmnalddigpojomph/reviews https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/activegs/nhndampaj...
- amelius 10y agoIt shows the sad state of the web: anything you build will automatically be broken in a couple of years.
- st3fan 10y agoI downvoted this because it is nonsense. And in this case it is broken because this site depends on a browser extension. A native browser extension.
- dasil003 10y agoThe web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility along with Microsoft's herculean efforts on DOS/Windows over the years.
- jimmaswell 10y ago>The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility Are you serious? Flash is being dropped eventually, npapi plugins (especially wrt Java) are out, the blink tag is gone, Firefox extensions are being dropped for a worse system, breaking changes to JavaScript, the list goes on.
- brennen 10y agoOn the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
- pmontra 10y agoIt seems to be a Java thing. Probably wasm and emscripten (1) would be fast enough nowadays but this emulator was created many years ago. (1) They can't access the sceeen AFAIK so we still need some plain JavaScript to interface the emulator at every computed frame. Is there any project like that, not necessarily retro computing?
- __david__ 10y agoJust plain javascript is fast enough: https://porkrind.org/a2 https://porkrind.org/a2
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- junke 10y agoSee here for more Apple II stuff: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/site_index.txt
- sehugg 10y agoThere's another native JS emulator with lots of disk images built-in: https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/#asteroid https://www.scullinsteel.com/apple2/#asteroid
- jloughry 10y agoFor extra realism, consider incorporating Trevor Blackwell's analogtv.c source code. It's a faithful DSP simulation of late 1970s television circuitry. You can see it in action in some Xscreensaver modules.
- mmphosis 10y agoAppleWin is an Apple II emulator for Windows which is cycle accurate. Recently, they added a better TV mode using Sheldon Simm's code. https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin http://wsxyz.net/applewin.html http://wsxyz.net/applewin.html You can run AppleWin on Mac and Linux using Wine.
- notadoc 10y agoIt wants to install a browser plugin? Haha, no thanks.
- Hilyin 10y agoseriously. This is not "in browser" if you need a plugin in my opinion.
- mr-ron 10y agoAnother great collection of old browser-ready software from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary
- derefr 10y agoSadly, there's one small time-slice of games that the Internet Archive Software Library doesn't cover: games for Windows 95/98 that were 16-bit code, but also used 32-bit Windows APIs. Slightly too old for modern Windows to support; slightly too new for DOSBox to manage to run. :/ Some of these are sold on GOG, but the rest have faded into the kind of complete availability-oblivion that the IA is supposed to prevent—they're not available as torrents, you can't find them on eBay, etc.
- mr-ron 10y agoExamples? There isn't a whole lot from that era that I haven't found SOMEwhere.
- dver23 10y agoAwesome, they have Taxman and Super Taxman, I can play the maze I drew up again!