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19wintersp
5y ago
MARLEY seems to have more in common with KASETA, even though they have different file endings. `AA::` and `BB::`, a large section of `- - -`... and second byte alternation are present near the start of both, as well as the large section of
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19wintersp
5y ago
It's "magic", yes. Replit is not for you to mess around with the VNC or anything, that directly defeats its purpose. Replit is not a framework for building a Replit-like system. Replit is effectively just a way for you to sav
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19wintersp
5y ago
Again, let me stress this : xterm.js is providing the console only. Any visual things, including the x64 window, are provided by the VNC connection, which is completely independent of the xterm console .
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19wintersp
5y ago
1. It is an emulator program that has nothing to do with Replit, it is just being run on Replit. 2. To repeat, the VNC program is not running the retro OS, that is the emulator. The emulator is a program which runs on Linux and opens a wind
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19wintersp
5y ago
1. I'm assuming by "the box" you mean the VM. It gets started for you when you run the repl as a user who does not own it, and it will run a command specified in a configuration file (see https://docs.replit.com&#x
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19wintersp
5y ago
If you want a fuller explanation, I'll just ramble about some random bits. Replit will let you create an account, with which you can create "repls": on their own, they are the "disk images" I mentioned; they store f
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19wintersp
5y ago
1. The information gets from the VM to you through a custom WebSocket protocol called Goval (you can see the JS client at https://github.com/replit/crosis ). It can do editing, console I/O, VNC, configuration of th
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19wintersp
5y ago
It's a read-only "IDE" of sorts; it's effectively a disk image stored in the cloud, which when run will create a VM and send the output back to you. If you create an account, you can fork that repl to create your own edi