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Show HN: Arcade – Play retro games streamed inside a browser

#1

Post by yaboyhud » Thu, Jul 09, 2015, 10:48 PM UTC

Show HN: Arcade – Play retro games streamed inside a browser
arcadeup.io

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#2

Post by DrScump » Thu, Jul 09, 2015, 11:22 PM UTC

How does one get to anything besides Warcraft?

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#3

Post by colhom » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 12:08 AM UTC

DrScump wrote: post #2

How does one get to anything besides Warcraft?

The idea is "one application per virtual machine", and to leave multi-tasking to the browser. Right now the only application we have is Warcraft.

The fact that you can interact with Windows outside the context of the intended application is a side-effect of Windows 8 Assigned Access only working for "Windows Apps" (ie- not "legacy" applications). Otherwise we would have gone for this type of "kiosk" experience which attempts to hide the underlying desktop environment / os.

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#4

Post by alakin » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:01 AM UTC

What is the expected latency? Would this work with an FPS? Looks like its using Broadway.js?

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Post by frozenport » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:10 AM UTC

Okay, I changed the wallpaper and removed the start-up program, and shut the computer down, does this affect everybody?

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Post by henesy » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:17 AM UTC

Is it intended to be able to drop down to the desktop just by quitting WC3?

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Post by vitd » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:27 AM UTC

I can't press enter in my iPad's browser, so it's entirely useless.

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#8

Post by rubicon33 » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:39 AM UTC

This is beyond awesome. How did you do it?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:42 AM UTC

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#10

Post by mappum » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 4:45 AM UTC

Cool project! The latency is a little high for a lot of games (not sure WC3 is the best choice with high latency), but it seemed smooth and responsive. After a while, I got stuck on the desktop instead of in the game (that's kind of a big security problem).

It would be nice if the site gave a little more info, maybe it should go to a landing page rather than jumping right into the app.