Why I abandoned this

[dreamlayers]

In the distant past I spent a lot of time playing MS-DOS games. After I started university in 1995, it was already more about revisiting old favourites than about simply playing games. For years after university I still had an old PC with DOS games, using it rarely, and eventually not using it anymore. I also have a DOS games directory on my current PCs, and DOSBox installed, but I practically never run it. I've probably spent less than an hour in DOSBox over the last year, and virtually no time running it in a web browser. I recently fixed the old PC with DOS games, and I still don't care about gaming there.

When I started this port I was already practically done with DOS gaming, but porting DOSBox to the web was an interesting challenge and a way to leverage any remaining interest in DOS. I loved doing that initially. But after it became popular my own experience became more about pleasing others than about doing something I loved.

I feel bad about not even reading issues posted on here. But I feel worse about doing work for free only out of a sense of obligation. I don't know how this could become something I love doing again.

[ZaDarkSide]

We all support you all the way, do what is best for you!
And if you are getting bored and want to do something and you have free time to fix some bugs then you can do that too.
Please understand there is no pressure for you to do anything or expectations because this is an open source project after all.
All you can do is pick someone to manage the issues at least so the project is not totally abandoned, someone that can accept the incoming pull requests and so on.

[warpcoil]

Ok, you started something fantastic and I know exactly where you're coming from. This project does live on, we all have our own forks with our own little modifications because of what you have done.

Never feel bad for not responding to issues, you have have spawned something amazing, why should it all be on your shoulders.

With the best regards always . . .

Bobby

[rickygai]

First of all, I want to say thank you for sharing this site, much appreciated.

After noticed this project is no longer in support, I decided to let go EM_DOSBOX but will still continue the learning of C/C++ Enscripten.

Often, technical and business peoples are always in conflict situation, we have to find a balance in between them.

That said, with technical knowledge is not enough, we must also think of ways to commercialize because we need money to pay electrics bill, water bill, house loan, buy better computer hardwares, and software licenses for the ongoing development.

GNU GPL allows the author to sell software and there is no limit to charge, check it HERE and more about GPL "Selling" article is HERE, below is the extraction of the context.

Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?
Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)

Personally, I don't mind contribute some money ( eg. costs a cup of coffee ) to receive support that valuable to my current project. If everyone starts pumping little dollars to the pool, surely author and his or her readers will be happy.

Hopes, this help.

[hpvb]

While I can't promise I will continue updating this, my fork here: https://github.com/hpvb/em-dosbox is up to date with dosbox-staging (mostly). I didn't try and fix any issues that were reported specifically in this repo so I don't know how much (if anything) is fixed, but perhaps it is useful for someone else.