Show HN: ReBirth 338 in Browser

fallous

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 115.44.0esr

hhthrowaway1230

Wow! Now all we need is Fasttracker 2 and then 90's music revival is done! Great work. Don't forget to check the demo songs and TGV kilomix from bar 30 or smth.

thm

There's an influx of vibe-coded RB clones, ports, etc. in their FB group. https://rb.varyform.info is probably one of the better ones.

JeffeFawkes

Nice! Curious about the approach, seems like it's boxedwine running in the browser? emulating x86 I assume?

flohofwoe

More like Windows running in browser running Rebirth 338 (at least going by all the 'wine' in filenames) ;) The webpage is loading an incredible amount of .js files which all look identical ( https://margeux.com/rb338/boxedwine-firefox-20261103.js , looks like Emscripten JS shims), but then also loads two massive blobs (one is 100 MB, the other 150 MB). I'd at least check what's up with all those .js file downloads, that looks like a bug tbh. First start takes very long btw on a 50 MBit connection, most time seems to be spent with this same small JS file that's downloaded many times, I'm sure this could be massively optimized.

efxhoy

In firefox I can't see the mouse pointer, I have to hit escape to get it "back" but as soon as I click something it disappears.