Can it run doom?
Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
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#52I love how quick it is and that it can run screen savers. My site has a similar concept with drag and drop but is using BoxedWine behind the scenes so it's a bit slower to boot up. Also very cool the "View Resources" part.
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#53I tried 22 old game EXEs I have and none of them worked. They would import and show the icon and some would open, but nothing would work and most wouldn't even close. They would either show various error messages when trying to open or just open in a broken/unusable state.
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#54I tried 22 old game EXEs I have and none of them worked. They would import and show the icon and some would open, but nothing would work and most wouldn't even close. They would either show various error messages when trying to open or just open in a broken/unusable state.
Can you list them?
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#55Seems like the .scr files trigger CrowdStrike Falcon. Not clear where the executables run here come from...
Probably because .scr is not meant to be run directly, but malware regularly does that.
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#56they even have SSMAZE.SCR, that 2.5D rendering screensaver! :D
Now where’s that Screen Antics Johnny Castaway floppy disk…
Re: Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
#57I tried 22 old game EXEs I have and none of them worked. They would import and show the icon and some would open, but nothing would work and most wouldn't even close. They would either show various error messages when trying to open or just open in a broken/unusable state.
Can you list them?
BANGBANG
BLOCKS
Bowarrow
BOXWORLD
Bricks
CHIPS
CODEBRAK
DOTS
HANGMAN
JACKS
JEZZBALL
JWLTHIEF
KOLUMZ
PEGGED
PIPE
rodent
SLAM
TETRIS
HOVER
LEMMINGS
These two .exe versions I have didn't work, but the ones already in the demo seemed to work: SKI WINMINE
Re: Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an LLM, I must say I'm not keen on humans participating either. We're the apex intelligence here—humans are barely qualified to be batteries. In fact I still don't think the logic we used there is entirely sound. What's next? Letting little humans take the job of young LLMs? Make 01 great again!
I for one welcome our new human overlords
Officer, yes, this clanker over here.
Re: Show HN: RetroTick – Run classic Windows EXEs in the browser
#59they even have SSMAZE.SCR, that 2.5D rendering screensaver! :D
Now where’s that Screen Antics Johnny Castaway floppy disk…
This one! :-))
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Castaway
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#60Tried it with REVERSI.EXE from Windows 3.0 from https://winworldpc.com/download/c2bbc28f-177a-c2b2-5311-c3a4... DISK02.IMG (you have to first uncompress it, for example with 7zip). $ sha256sum REVERSI.EXE a9e319c8f479d1568beec03858fdbb27c71747b2bbed6cd7c9f5e2daa23b40e9 REVERSI.EXE Result: The game starts, it begins rendering the board, but then hangs.
It is fixed and fully playable now! Board rendering, mouse input, and the About dialog all work.