Browser ports (bis)
category: general [glöplog]
So emoon just showed that the tools to get halfway (or more?) to a better solution already existed. By the way, an improved web-based emulator would also aid the development and testing of new demos, which is not something that a pre-vibecoded port of a pre-existing demo provides.
emulators are sooooooo pre-AI tech... boooring!!!
Whenever tomkh's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's tomkh?"
he's having a bit of a lie down
They can run emulated!
First batch of demos all running in Demarc:
https://youtu.be/a_iJezVFIgI
(NOTE: Claude is being used do make this happen, for instance in debugging the handful of demos that needs special treatment or patching).
First batch of demos all running in Demarc:
https://youtu.be/a_iJezVFIgI
(NOTE: Claude is being used do make this happen, for instance in debugging the handful of demos that needs special treatment or patching).
It's worth noting that these ports often do a better job than Webassembly-based emulators (especially DOSBox) which often have huge lag and/or stutter as well often bad upscaling and wrong aspect ratios.
I mean, emulators themselves often use dynamic recompiling anyway so it's really open to discussion about whether dynarec, the static recomp or both approaches are bad as they deviate from the original presentation.
Only the creator can assert a preference for presentation if they are that motivated to do so, as a viewer an accurate presentation is meaningful.
If these recomps were done without the use of AI would they be more acceptable? It's contentious whatever approach is taken. If the capitalism was stripped from AI and models were trained ethically to obtain the same results, that would take the temperature down I hope.
I mean, emulators themselves often use dynamic recompiling anyway so it's really open to discussion about whether dynarec, the static recomp or both approaches are bad as they deviate from the original presentation.
Only the creator can assert a preference for presentation if they are that motivated to do so, as a viewer an accurate presentation is meaningful.
If these recomps were done without the use of AI would they be more acceptable? It's contentious whatever approach is taken. If the capitalism was stripped from AI and models were trained ethically to obtain the same results, that would take the temperature down I hope.
But on the other hand they still sometimes don't look like the original (like Nature v2.0 that looks too good in the beginning at least).
Batch #2 emulated!
https://youtu.be/_CwhyUci-aY
Batch #2 emulated!
https://youtu.be/_CwhyUci-aY
And Batch #3
https://youtu.be/Oa8xneDVEbQ
Yeah so there is no good XBOX360 emulator so that demo I can't load, and the 2 Solar demos have a small texture glitch that show black lines in the logos, and there are probably some issue I haven't seen yet but...
Demozoo has ~ 400k releases so emulation is really the only way to enjoy them at any type of "scale" :)
https://youtu.be/Oa8xneDVEbQ
Yeah so there is no good XBOX360 emulator so that demo I can't load, and the 2 Solar demos have a small texture glitch that show black lines in the logos, and there are probably some issue I haven't seen yet but...
Demozoo has ~ 400k releases so emulation is really the only way to enjoy them at any type of "scale" :)
Why are you posting YouTube videos?
To show that almost all these demos can be run in an emulator.
And I accidentally recorded the whole screen in that last one... oops :)
sorry, cannot take people running omarchy serious
Bingo!
that's your takaway? Sigh...
Well you’re the one pushing slop and running a nazi distro, not us…
You are so utterly clueless.
Are you saying omarchy isn’t a nazi distro?
Would it matter to you? You're job here seems to just spread as much hate as you can. Like zealots in general I don't think you listen to arguments.
But of course it was going to be Omarchy. Totally fitting. The only thing seemingly amiss is Grok.
Quote:
In 2025, Hansson published a blog post expressing support for far-right British activist Tommy Robinson and the 2025 British anti-immigration protests, as well as mourning that London is "no longer full of native Brits".[33]
Hansson published another blog post in July of 2026 comparing the Romani population of Copenhagen to Denmark's struggles with its wolf population growth, stating that "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them."[34]
From wikipedia. Just the tip of the iceberg.