Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by freeciv21 » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 3:49 PM UTC

Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly
freecivweb.com

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by astlouis44 » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 8:10 AM UTC

Plenty of other WebAssembly ports that are online, another one online is The Curse of Monkey Island: (press escape key as soon as it loads to skip to playing!)

https://personal-1094.web.app/scummvm.html

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by hello0990911 » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 8:26 AM UTC

Does not work on firefox

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by simooooo » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 9:52 AM UTC

hello0990911 wrote: post #3

Does not work on firefox

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Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 10:21 AM UTC

hello0990911 wrote: post #3

Does not work on firefox

The link with the Curse of Monkey Island works fine on my Firefox mobile

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by sgt » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 1:13 PM UTC

Very cool. In what language did you write it to produce wasm bytecode?

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by mysterydip » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 1:17 PM UTC

I'm curious how human multiplayer works with webassembly. I assume it uses websockets, but how does the code hook into it? How does the original code compile?

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by faeyanpiraat » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

astlouis44 wrote: post #2

Plenty of other WebAssembly ports that are online, another one online is The Curse of Monkey Island: (press escape key as soon as it loads to skip to playing!) https://personal-1094.web.app/scummvm.html

Don't get too invested in the gameplay though, as after 15 minutes the game stops and prompts you to host it yourself.

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by wffurr » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #6

Very cool. In what language did you write it to produce wasm bytecode?

Freeciv is about 85% C: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv

Re: Show HN: Full Freeciv client running on WebAssembly

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Post by freeciv21 » Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

wffurr wrote: post #9

sgt wrote: post #6

Very cool. In what language did you write it to produce wasm bytecode?

Freeciv is about 85% C: https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv

We have forked it and are allowing more C++, but it is still mostly C style. https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21