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jensandClaude Sonnet 5 c6ae36ba67 Replace auto-download with an interactive HTML game setup UI
No games are fetched at container start anymore. scripts/setup_server.py
is a small stdlib-only Python HTTP server, started alongside Xvnc/fluxbox/
websockify, serving an HTML page on ${SETUP_PORT} (70${DISPLAY_NUM},
published as 7099 by run.sh) that lists every *.zip found live on the SMB
share with an Installed/Install status per game. Clicking Install
downloads and extracts just that game into ${GAMES_HOME} on demand.
Replaces the old fetch_games.sh, which unconditionally pulled every game
on first start.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NiNnj78HGx1KWyCCo39HSz
2026-07-28 08:37:12 +02:00

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TODO

  • ~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.