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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 05:40:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   hmm. So you can compile to the web using Emscripten, and the NT4 SDK had the complete source to the old windows 95 screensavers, so... I wonder how hard it'd be to make a website that just runs the 3D maze screensaver?

   • ConfusionUnknown (confusionunknown@bitbang.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 05:55:25 JST ConfusionUnknown

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     @foone That screensaver must be pre-DirectX, so... I guess not that hard? At first thought you'd need to port over the code that actually renders it to the screen to work with whatever Emscripten has going on and the texture loading

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 05:55:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ConfusionUnknown

     @confusionunknown yeah, it's opengl. so I'd just have to port some opengl 1.0 code to webgl's opengles

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 05:59:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's already been done!

     https://fedi.bpc.wtf/@ballpointcarrot/statuses/01HR5KKHCXV7VM9RDJ86JK9KBR

   • ConfusionUnknown (confusionunknown@bitbang.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 06:09:19 JST ConfusionUnknown

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     @foone OpenGL in windows 95? Wow! How does the screensaver handle textures files, are they separate files or just big arrays in the source files?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 06:09:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • ConfusionUnknown

     @confusionunknown I believe it compiles them into the EXE as resources, but they're saved in the source as BMPs or a custom format called A8, because they needed a format with an alpha channel and didn't have any