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First post, by orac81

Posted on 2024-09-15, 13:08

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I was wondering if anyone knew of an online DOSBOX website that allowed programs linked from other sites to run emulated in a browser? It seems all the sites i can find only run a very small subset of selected games.

Ideally i would like it to be so that i could add the path to the program I want to run in a single http link, and it goes off and runs the program.

Or would i have to host a js version of dosbox?

Any ideas?

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Reply 1 of 2, by DosFreak

Posted on 2024-09-15, 15:39

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Sounds like a security and legal nightmare. You'll either need to host your own version or have the website(s) hosting dosbox host it. IIRC, archive.org the last time I looked at it years ago caches the app\game locally when a user runs it.

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Reply 2 of 2, by orac81

Posted on 2024-09-15, 21:53

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Its interesting that this is fully allowed by many c64 online emulator sites, you can drag and drop and run your own programs, ie:
https://c64online.com/c64-online-emulator/

But because the dos code is an "prog.exe", maybe we think its more "dangerous" than a c64 prg executable? In reality its the same sort of code interpreter, as long as the web emulator is properly designed, its completely isolated and safe.
The emulator code runs on the users device, not the web server.

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