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DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

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Re: DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

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Post by cosgroveb »

pygy_ wrote: post #2

It's nice, but the porter didn't publish the source code (DOSBox is GPLed) and has adds splattered on every page of his site :-/. Publishing the source wouldn't have hurt his income and would have prevented some bad advertising.

Yeah, I don't think the old loophole of running GPL'ed code on your server would apply here since DOSBox would be downloaded and executed in the browser. He has to release the source.

Re: DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

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Post by pygy_ »

cosgroveb wrote: post #4
pygy_ wrote: post #2

It's nice, but the porter didn't publish the source code (DOSBox is GPLed) and has adds splattered on every page of his site :-/. Publishing the source wouldn't have hurt his income and would have prevented some bad advertising.

Yeah, I don't think the old loophole of running GPL'ed code on your server would apply here since DOSBox would be downloaded and executed in the browser. He has to release the source.

Furthermore, he didn't just adapt the build scripts. The game files are not mounted from a discreet disk image, he made a hack to get them available from the DOSBox internal Z: drive (which isn't actually a disk image but the interface to internal functions).

Re: DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

#7

Post by k00k »

cosgroveb wrote: post #3

I can't seem to make this work. I'm on Chrome 12 on Win7 and I enabled Native Client in about:flags and restarted... Still see "Missing plug-in." Will try on Linux...

Same for me on Chrome 12 Mac. I had Chrome 11 on a Win7x64 box which worked.

Re: DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

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Post by cosgroveb »

lzm wrote: post #8
cosgroveb wrote: post #3

I can't seem to make this work. I'm on Chrome 12 on Win7 and I enabled Native Client in about:flags and restarted... Still see "Missing plug-in." Will try on Linux...

You have to enable it in about:plugins too.

Bingo! This did it. Thanks.

Re: DOSBox ported to run in Chrome via Native Client. Some games hosted too.

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Post by tantalor »

cosgroveb wrote: post #3

I can't seem to make this work. I'm on Chrome 12 on Win7 and I enabled Native Client in about:flags and restarted... Still see "Missing plug-in." Will try on Linux...

In Chrome 12.0.742.30, I get this error in my console,

> NaCl module proxy failed: could not initialize module.

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