So one of my dream projects is to combine emscripten DOSBox with a multi-player server and some low-level game hacking to support it.
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So one of my dream projects is to combine emscripten DOSBox with a multi-player server and some low-level game hacking to support it.
The basic idea is that I want a way to play DOS games in the browser, but with a hack to let it be networked pseudo-hotseat.
So you could play GORILLA.BAS in the browser with a friend. Or Scorched Earth with your discord channel.
Any other turn-based DOS games that'd be a good choice for this?
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I'd want to do something special for gorilla.bas: it'd be set up so you can easily make code changes and then play that version instead. Ad-hoc modding of gorilla.bas is a key part of the game
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Cyber Empires / Steel Empire seems like it'd be a good option, but it has the real-time mech fights. And I'm not planning on doing a full real-time networking thing here
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@foone worms?
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@ghosttie that's a good idea. less pressing than some of the other games, since there's modern worms that do internet play just fine.
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@foone Why could one not make a javascript BASIC interpreter?
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@RueNahcMohr no where near as much fun