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Looks interesting, but after activating Native Client, I just see a black box in Chrome 15.0.849.1 dev on OS X 10.6.8 – anybody else has that issue? Or do the games only work on Windows?

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Similar issue here on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit:

  Chrome - 14.0.835.15 dev
  Chromium - 14.0.803.0 (Developer Build 90483 Linux) Ubuntu 10.10

I am getting a 403 when trying to load the dosbox client (http://nacl.naclbox.com/dosbox_14.nmf).

I wonder the server is refusing this request if the user-agent is not in their white list?

Or perhaps they are limiting it based on Country due to Copyright Issues?

I also get a 403 trying to load what you've linked, but dosbox_13.nmf loads fine and so do the games.

It determines the filename based on the major version number in the useragent - it would probably work fine if your browser reported chrome 13.something.

I was on 14.0.835.2 (Win7) and had a similar issue (black box, and very laggy scrolling). Once the GPU compositing and GPU accelerated drawing options marked out here [1] are disabled, the issues went away.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/COxPY.jpg

Looks like the dosbox is loaded depending on which version of chrome you're running, and there's only 12 and 13 up, so 14/15 tries to get a file that doesn't exist.

Bit of silly coding, given the ABI is fixed from 13 onwards.

Works on 64bit OSX, Chrome 13.0.782.112

They run at least on Linux 64 Bit.

Same here. Chrome 13, OS X 10.7.

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