Twitter Stops Users From Playing DOS Games Inside Tweets

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday May 5, 2015 @07:16AM from the no-fun-allowed dept.

jones_supa writes: Twitter has killed off an interesting trend of playing DOS games in tweets. Last week, users discovered they could use the new "Twitter Cards" embedding feature to bundle full DOS games within tweets. Running DOSBox inside the web browser is possible thanks to an Emscripten port of DOSBox called Em-DOSBox. The games were pulled from Internet Archive's collection of 2,600 classic titles, many of which still lack proper republishing agreements with the copyright holder. So, is embedding games within Twitter Cards, against the social network's terms of service? Either way, Twitter has now blocked such activity, likely after seeing the various news reports and a stream of Street Fighter II, Wolfenstein 3D and Zool cheering up people's timelines.

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Re:Dosbox in a browser? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-05 08:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

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