zemeroth VS v86

i've used both in zemeroth: i migrated it from ggez to macroquad mostly because ggez at that time didn't support android and web targets. but i'd say that the main difference is tech stacks they're using: while ggez extensively reuses the existing rust gamedev ecosystem (winit, wgpu, rodio, etc), mq was written mostly on top of minimalist or its own specialized libraries (see miniquad).

nope, /u/not-fl3 is the author. i'm just using it in my zemeroth.

Trying to get back to the development of my turn-based game Zemeroth: going to finish the first iteration of settings screen for configuring widgets' size and screen offset, and get back to writing devlogs for the v0.7 release.

Depends on CI system you prefer. Here's Zemeroth's Github Actions release config for example: https://github.com/ozkriff/zemeroth/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml

Tutorial is based on a public test of zemeroth game.

zemeroth: a 2D game with desktop versions, but also a wasm online version

Oh, I was really waiting for this episode as my Zemeroth game shares a lot of history with mini~ and macroquad. Here're some of my thoughts.

> As a thought experiment, we're almost there! We could technically have `win95.img + bochs86vm.wasm + autorun.inf + msword.exe` wrapped in a "browser evaluator"

I looked into this and... holy crap! We are there. Not for modern programs quite yet, sure, but this is amazing. You can use Windows 2000 from your browser.

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000

I think you are looking for Shadow.

https://shadow.goose.icu

Or just the whole kitchen sink. Why not?

http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98

Also: https://github.com/copy/v86 - more productized browser x86 runtime, used by eg https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm

Wonder if you could put all those databases in a Linux image and boot it using v86 [0], eliminating the need for a server.

[0] https://github.com/copy/v86

Trying it out in https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=kolibrios , it's also clearly a love letter to Windows 95 in particular. That could be an unstated goal here, create a very particular PC experience under very particular constraints. I don't know anything about the creator but it's very possible that this kind of work was actually their career in the 90s.

It's incredible how much work was done. Maybe this should be an internet curiosity like how TempleOS has become, though Terry's personality was a unique factor.

hmm, why would people still use VMWare? Isn't vbox open source, or even things such as https://copy.sh/v86/ would do most virtualization trick now days?

Oh, there are more OSes one can use at the parent page:

https://copy.sh/v86/

My highlights:

- First version of Windows (1.01)

- SerenityOS <3

- and even ReactOS