JSMESS - Revision history

Morn at 16:40, 28 December 2015

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Morn at 09:39, 1 June 2015

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Morn: /* Links */

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‎Links

Morn: /* Features and status */

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‎Features and status

Morn at 12:57, 31 October 2013

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Morn at 12:56, 31 October 2013

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Morn: /* Links */

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‎Links

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‎Links

Morn: /* Usage on web pages and CPC demo page */

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‎Usage on web pages and CPC demo page

Morn at 11:40, 21 October 2013

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 [[File:Jsmess in Chromium.png|thumb|upright=1.3|JSMESS emulating a CPC6128 in Chromium 30 on Linux (with copious debug messages)]]
 [[File:Jsmess firefox zoomed.png|thumb|upright=1.3|JSMESS in Firefox 24 (same rendering resolution but using page zoom to enlarge the CPC screen)]]
-'''JSMESS''' ("JavaScript MESS") is an ongoing JavaScript port of MESS (now simply called [[MAME]] as of 0.162) for modern web browsers like Chrome and Firefox. JSMESS is used by the Internet Archive to make their Historical Software Collection playable in web browsers.
+'''JSMESS''' ("JavaScript MESS") was an ongoing JavaScript port of MESS (now simply called [[MAME]] as of 0.162) for modern web browsers like Chrome and Firefox. JSMESS is used by the Internet Archive to make their Historical Software Collection playable in web browsers.
-CPC emulation speed is about 100% in Firefox and a little slower (as evident from the slower CPC startup messages) in Chrome when running the browsers on an entry-level 2012 PC. The chief remaining issues of JSMESS are spotty sound support and some bad keymapping.
+Since MAME 0.168 (released in November 2015), JSMESS is no longer necessary as MAME can compile to JavaScript (using Emscripten's emmake command) out of the box.[http://mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0168.txt]
 ==History and development roadmap==

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 [[File:Jsmess in Chromium.png|thumb|upright=1.3|JSMESS emulating a CPC6128 in Chromium 30 on Linux (with copious debug messages)]]
 [[File:Jsmess firefox zoomed.png|thumb|upright=1.3|JSMESS in Firefox 24 (same rendering resolution but using page zoom to enlarge the CPC screen)]]
-'''JSMESS''' ("JavaScript MESS") is a JavaScript translation of [[MESS]] that runs in modern web browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Despite being in its beta stage right now, JSMESS is already used by the Internet Archive to make their Historical Software Collection playable in web browsers.
+'''JSMESS''' ("JavaScript MESS") is an ongoing JavaScript port of MESS (now simply called [[MAME]] as of 0.162) for modern web browsers like Chrome and Firefox. JSMESS is used by the Internet Archive to make their Historical Software Collection playable in web browsers.
 CPC emulation speed is about 100% in Firefox and a little slower (as evident from the slower CPC startup messages) in Chrome when running the browsers on an entry-level 2012 PC. The chief remaining issues of JSMESS are spotty sound support and some bad keymapping.
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 ==Links==
 ;General info
-*[http://jsmess.textfiles.com/ Official site]
+*[https://github.com/jsmess/jsmess Official site]
 *[http://archive.org/details/internetarchivecelebration20131024?start=2544 Video of Jason Scott presenting JSMESS and the Historical Software Collection] at the Internet Archive
 *[http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Javascript_Mess Archive Team wiki page] about JSMESS

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 ;Demos
 *[http://mdoege.github.io/jsmess/ CPC6128/Sub Hunter demo page]
-*[http://archive.org/details/historicalsoftware Historical Software Collection] at the Internet Archive
+*[https://archive.org/details/consolelivingroom The Console Living Room] at the Internet Archive
 [[Category:Emulator]]

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 As of October 2013, sound only works in Firefox and not in Chrome/Chromium. Emulation speed in Firefox is better than in Chrome, presumably because Firefox has better support for Emscripten's asm.js-based JS code. Internet Explorer 10 was supposedly supported very well by earlier versions of JSMESS with up to [https://github.com/jsmess/jsmess/wiki/Status 100% emulation performance] (including working sound) but the current JSMESS exits with an Emscripten error in IE 10.
-The joystick is mapped to Alt and the arrow keys by default.
+The joystick is mapped to Alt and the arrow keys by default. The development version of JSMESS at archive.org also has support for USB gamepads but no sound.
 ==Usage on web pages and CPC6128 demo page==

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 '''JSMESS''' ("JavaScript MESS") is a JavaScript translation of [[MESS]] that runs in modern web browsers like Chrome and Firefox. Despite being in its beta stage right now, JSMESS is already used by the Internet Archive to make their Historical Software Collection playable in web browsers.
-Emulation speed is about 100% in Firefox and a little slower (as evident from the slower CPC startup messages) in Chrome when running the browsers on an entry-level 2012 PC. The chief remaining issues of JSMESS are spotty sound support and some bad keymapping.
+CPC emulation speed is about 100% in Firefox and a little slower (as evident from the slower CPC startup messages) in Chrome when running the browsers on an entry-level 2012 PC. The chief remaining issues of JSMESS are spotty sound support and some bad keymapping.
 ==History and development roadmap==

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 *[http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Javascript_Mess Archive Team wiki page] about JSMESS
 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott_Sadofsky Jason Scott], initiator of the project, at Wikipedia
-;Code and examples
+;Code
 *[https://github.com/jsmess/jsmess GitHub source code repository] (without any CPC makefiles right now)
 *[https://github.com/mdoege/jsmess GitHub fork] with added CPC6128 makefiles
 *[http://mdoege.github.io/jsmess/ CPC6128/Sub Hunter demo page]
 [[Category:Emulator]]

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 The joystick is mapped to Alt and the arrow keys by default.
-==Usage on web pages and CPC demo page==
+==Usage on web pages and CPC6128 demo page==
 Right now the way to get JSMESS running on a page is to edit the top of messloader.js so that <tt>gamename</tt> points to a DSK file for drive A.