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17 points vegnus 2 hours ago 7 comments

fallous 1 hour ago | parent

Doesn't seem to work in Firefox 115.44.0esr

hhthrowaway1230 1 hour ago | parent

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.

skrebbel 44 minutes ago | parent

You might appreciate 8bitbubsy's FT2 clone for Windows/Linux/Mac: https://16-bits.org/ft2.php

It's a very impressive clone, works very well (pre AI!). The only downside is it doesn't have the "Space Pigs" theme.

thm 59 minutes ago | parent

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.

skrebbel 28 minutes ago | parent

Wow that's impressive indeed. That said, it sounds way worse than the OG Rebirth did, eg the open hihat is just white noise I think instead of a proper 909 hihat.

JeffeFawkes 59 minutes ago | parent

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

flohofwoe 55 minutes ago | parent

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.