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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 09:09:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   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?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 09:15:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 09:16:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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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

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 10:15:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ghosttie

     @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.

   • ghosttie (ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 10:15:09 JST ghosttie

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     @foone worms?

   • Rue Mohr (ruenahcmohr@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 11:17:18 JST Rue Mohr

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     @foone Why could one not make a javascript BASIC interpreter?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 11:17:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Rue Mohr

     @RueNahcMohr no where near as much fun