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This is cool. I didn't expect much on mobile (hey it's Simcity), but this page actually froze Firefox for me, on Android. Had to kill the process. That happens

This is cool. I didn't expect much on mobile (hey it's Simcity), but this page actually froze Firefox for me, on Android. Had to kill the process. That happens rarely. BTW, here's a little game that I ported to the browser. Getting it to run was very straightforward (Emscripten+SDL2 is a great combo), but honestly making it fully playable on a phone took the most effort: https://play.neverball.org/ https://play.neverball.org/

DonHopkins 2y ago
I fully intend to make it support mobile! And I already fixed one bug that prevented it from running on Firefox on Ubuntu, thanks to a well written bug report that included a stack trace. Give it another try, maybe it works now, and if not, please report the bug and include a stack trace and any information about your platform. https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/issues/1 https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/issues/1 I wanted to release this as soon as possible so other people could run it, instead of waiting until it was finished and perfect, so there's a lot more work to do on the user interface, robustness, cross platform support, mobile, etc. But once I got the simulator and tile renderer working, I threw together a minimalistic zooming panning + keyboard control interface, and a little window with hints that you can close by clicking the "+" button in the upper right corner. What I'm really looking forward to doing is integrating it with visual programming languages like Snap! so you can live code it and write plug-in zones, robots, monitoring and control systems, data visualization and export (i.e. Grafana dashboards, etc), and alternative interfaces via visual programming, instead of raw non-interactive JavaScript or TypeScript! Edit for parasti: You can use a USB cable to attach an Android phone to a Mac or PC, or an iPhone to a Mac, and then use the Chrome (or Safari on Mac) browser's debugger to attach to the phone and remotely see the console messages, debug, and even live code it! It might even work over Wifi if you can get all the stars to align, if Google hasn't canceled that feature, or if Apple hasn't forbidden it in the first place.
- parasti 2y ago
  That's awesome, looking forward to it. Would love to report more, but this is on Android - I wouldn't even know how to go about getting a stack trace. Being on Android, I can't even see the developer console.
noduerme 2y ago
This is shockingly high frame rate and stutter-free on a 4 year old bottom shelf android phone in firefox. Not that it's so many textures or polygons but even so I'm not used to anything performing remotely that well in a browser on this phone. Nice job!
- parasti 2y ago
  Thanks for giving it a try! Let me know if there's anything that needs improving.
Neywiny 2y ago
I'm also Firefox on Android and it didn't for me. Though I have noticed that some of the newer versions of Firefox can be kinda sucky for PDFs. Maybe it's linked to versions.

DonHopkins 2y ago

I fully intend to make it support mobile! And I already fixed one bug that prevented it from running on Firefox on Ubuntu, thanks to a well written bug report that included a stack trace. Give it another try, maybe it works now, and if not, please report the bug and include a stack trace and any information about your platform. https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/issues/1 https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/issues/1 I wanted to release this as soon as possible so other people could run it, instead of waiting until it was finished and perfect, so there's a lot more work to do on the user interface, robustness, cross platform support, mobile, etc. But once I got the simulator and tile renderer working, I threw together a minimalistic zooming panning + keyboard control interface, and a little window with hints that you can close by clicking the "+" button in the upper right corner. What I'm really looking forward to doing is integrating it with visual programming languages like Snap! so you can live code it and write plug-in zones, robots, monitoring and control systems, data visualization and export (i.e. Grafana dashboards, etc), and alternative interfaces via visual programming, instead of raw non-interactive JavaScript or TypeScript! Edit for parasti: You can use a USB cable to attach an Android phone to a Mac or PC, or an iPhone to a Mac, and then use the Chrome (or Safari on Mac) browser's debugger to attach to the phone and remotely see the console messages, debug, and even live code it! It might even work over Wifi if you can get all the stars to align, if Google hasn't canceled that feature, or if Apple hasn't forbidden it in the first place.

parasti 2y ago
That's awesome, looking forward to it. Would love to report more, but this is on Android - I wouldn't even know how to go about getting a stack trace. Being on Android, I can't even see the developer console.

noduerme 2y ago

This is shockingly high frame rate and stutter-free on a 4 year old bottom shelf android phone in firefox. Not that it's so many textures or polygons but even so I'm not used to anything performing remotely that well in a browser on this phone. Nice job!

parasti 2y ago
Thanks for giving it a try! Let me know if there's anything that needs improving.

Neywiny 2y ago

I'm also Firefox on Android and it didn't for me. Though I have noticed that some of the newer versions of Firefox can be kinda sucky for PDFs. Maybe it's linked to versions.