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andre9317
Play the classic (ASCII/2D) Linux build of Dwarf Fortress in a web browser. DF runs as a Docker container on a remote x86-64 Linux host at full native speed and is streamed to your browser over noVNC.
koolala
Isn't it kind of just as easy to stream it from your desktop into your browser? Something like RustDesk doing remote desktop?
piker
Honest question. Do people read these massive vibe-coded README.md files, or are they just artifacts?

The minute I see them, I tune out and move on. These types of docs come across to me as so over-specified and memorialized that I just find it not worth the effort to read. Of course for legacy projects this type of documentation would have been invaluable. What's changed, I wonder?

serious_angel 

    But... why.... from all possible protocols and options out there for secure, and less complex channels out there... they chose the so featureful and pure overhead as SSH...  

    For low-latency VNC+Audio, why not WireGuard, WebRTC, QUIC etc.?

    Yes, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup approached it relatively similarly for WebTiles, yet... it's infinitely different magnificent titles...  

    Oh... it's not them... it's Claude they used... or? Who knows, right? No one, including the priceless invaluable ideas of actual developers meat-ground into the Claude datasets now being sold for tokens...  

    // https://i.imgur.com/FM4aTMZ.png - SSH
    // https://i.imgur.com/9lZniqE.png - Claude
Jabrov
Sooo it’s just streaming a game to your browser. What does this have to do with Dwarf Fortress? There’s tons of generic solutions like this that would work the same way for DF as well. It’s giving AI slop.
Catloafdev
Why?

You keep posting this. What's it for? Who wants this? What does it accomplish?

It's a vibe-coded remote console renderer. I don't get why you're posting it.

perdomon
Could this work with the actual game files (e.g. purchased from Itch.io instead of Steam) ?