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slightly OT , but for those who like this look, Voxatron (http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php) is still a thing. It's morphed from a robotron-y sort of thing to a sort of "fantasy console" (that has a robotron game as an example). It's a fascinating experiment, and the development track is all listed out in the site already.


Voxatron is amazing. You can actually play the user mods in the browser now if you want to give it a try: http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=6&sub=2&mode=cposts&order...


I just tested one on my phone in Chrome. It crashed the tab. I figured it just ran out of memory or something so I tried it on my Tablet (which doesn't seem to handle memory the same way because it only has slightly more ram than the phone but doesn't constantly unload apps, which the phone will do) again in Chrome, and it ran but I couldn't do anything since it requires a keyboard.


The browser version is built on EMscripten and is pretty CPU-centric; I'm not at all surprised it wouldn't run on an Android phone.


I didn't have high expectations for it. I think it's worth testing any browser demo or application on a smart devices to see how promising the web as a applications platform is.

Still, I don't believe it crashing had anything to do with the CPU but the way my phone handles memory. It ran on my Android tablet which has a similar processor.




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