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jensandClaude Sonnet 5 827f03f087 Drive games from per-game JSON manifests instead of raw zip scanning

Games are no longer discovered from *.zip files on the SMB share; each
game now has its own <name>.json manifest (name/title/zip/start_cmd)
living next to its zip, discovered dynamically via smbclient. Nothing
about a game's identity or how to install/start it is hardcoded in the
image anymore. The setup page also grew Start/Stop/Uninstall buttons,
backed by real process tracking (Popen + terminate/kill).

Piloted on stuntcar only (manifest already uploaded to the share); t7g
has no manifest yet so it won't appear until one's added. The old
game.sh/start_game.sh docker-exec launch path is left as-is for now and
overlaps with the new Start button - noted in TODO.md for later cleanup.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NiNnj78HGx1KWyCCo39HSz

2026-07-28 10:27:33 +02:00

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~~~Reduce image size of jayfield/dosbox-novnc (currently ~~2.3GB).~~~~ Done in two steps:
1. Merged the game download/extract steps and the unzip/smbclient install into a single layer (so the downloaded zips and the packages only needed to extract them no longer persist in the final image). 2.31GB -> 1.6GB.
2. Stopped baking the games into the image at all (927MB of that was just t7g's two CD ISOs). run.sh mounts a named volume (dosbox-games) so installed games persist across --rm restarts. 1.6GB -> ~690MB. Container now needs network access to vlda-01 at runtime (not just build time) to install games.
3. Dropped the auto-download at container startup entirely. scripts/setup_server.py is a small stdlib-only HTTP server (started alongside Xvnc/fluxbox/websockify) that serves an HTML page on ${SETUP_PORT} (70${DISPLAY_NUM}, published as 7099 by run.sh) listing every *.zip on the SMB share with an Installed/Install status per game; the user clicks "Install" to fetch+extract a specific game into ${GAMES_HOME} on demand.
Manifest-driven games + Start/Stop/Uninstall (test balloon, stuntcar only): games are no longer discovered from raw *.zip files on the share. setup_server.py now lists *.json manifests instead (one per game, e.g. Games\dosbox\stuntcar.json), each declaring name/title/zip/start_cmd. The web page grew Start/Stop/Uninstall buttons alongside Install, driven entirely by that manifest — nothing about a game's identity or how to run it is hardcoded in the image anymore. Only stuntcar.json exists on the share so far (as a deliberate pilot); t7g has no manifest yet and will not show up in the setup page until one is added (t7g.json with a start_cmd for its dosbox-0.74-3.conf). game.sh/scripts/start_game.sh (the old docker exec-based launch path, with its hardcoded DOSBOX_VERSION/run.bat convention) were intentionally left untouched for this pilot and now overlap with the new Start button — worth reconciling (or removing) once the manifest approach is rolled out to all games.

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