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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Games => Topic started by: Greggory Shaw on February 11, 2016, 11:13:41 pm

Title: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Greggory Shaw on February 11, 2016, 11:13:41 pm
Mostly games 1000+ Martin !

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2499172,00.asp


Software link here:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_win3
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 12, 2016, 09:54:18 pm
It is too many games for me :)

As far as I know it runs an x86 emulator made in javascript to run DOSBox, Win31 and the game. But I can not make it work on Firefox on eCS, it just give a black screens. Is there anything that I'm missing?

Regards
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Greggory Shaw on February 13, 2016, 10:22:11 am
It is too many games for me :)

As far as I know it runs an x86 emulator made in javascript to run DOSBox, Win31 and the game. But I can not make it work on Firefox on eCS, it just give a black screens. Is there anything that I'm missing?

Regards

Oh, I tried it from Win & didn't try it with OS/2.

bUT, here's probably why:

The emulator is open-source; it's actually a Java-based adaptation of DOSBOX that converts Windows runtimes into JavaScript code your browser can understand.


And probably needs Java 8 :(
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Martin Iturbide on February 14, 2016, 12:18:41 am
Maybe on the future they will have OS/2 1.x running on the browser... who know?

Regards
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Dave Yeo on February 14, 2016, 08:01:55 am
@Martin, Dosbox won't run OS/2. Need a full PC emulator. These are untested here due to bandwidth. Some versions of OS/2 pre1.0, some from before the naming, http://www.pcjs.org/disks/pc/os2/misc/ (http://www.pcjs.org/disks/pc/os2/misc/), OS/2 1.0, http://www.pcjs.org/disks/pc/os2/microsoft/1.0/ (http://www.pcjs.org/disks/pc/os2/microsoft/1.0/). OS/2 versions 1.1 and 1.2 are on the site as well.
Please let us know how they work.

@Greggory, JavaScript is not Java and other then the name and a bit of syntax, they're totally different. JavaScript is built into the browser and if Firefox works on Windows, it should work on OS/2. There are exceptions such 3D support that is lacking on our platform.
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Olafur Gunnlaugsson on February 14, 2016, 05:41:50 pm
Why bother with the browser emulation and not just run the executable that is downloadable from the grey box on the right of the page?
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Greggory Shaw on February 14, 2016, 06:52:50 pm
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@Greggory, JavaScript is not Java and other then the name and a bit of syntax, they're totally different. JavaScript is built into the browser and if Firefox works on Windows, it should work on OS/2. There are exceptions such 3D support that is lacking on our platform.

Yes, but that was the quote from the website. And this is a port of DoxBox to Emscripten >> LLVM compiler and produces a subset of JavaScript
Title: Re: 1500+ Win 3.1 programs released !
Post by: Dave Yeo on February 14, 2016, 10:22:54 pm
Yes, but once converted to Emscriptem, Firefox should be able to run it.