cabin-fever-x86 0.0.1a2

A shared game night with an AI companion over a simulated radio: play old text adventures together. Runs the game inside a sandbox VM, on any platform.

cabin-fever-x86

A shared game night with an AI companion over a simulated radio: play old text adventures together.

This package is the launcher. It boots a sandbox VM, runs cabin-fever-x86-core inside it, and forwards the radio back out to your browser. Everything Linux-only stays in the guest, so this installs anywhere QEMU does — Linux, macOS, or Windows.

pip install cabin-fever-x86

cf86
# open http://127.0.0.1:8000

The VM image is fetched on first run and is large; the first boot takes a while, later ones do not.

Two consequences worth knowing about. The forwarded port is bound to 127.0.0.1 and cannot be widened — if you want the radio on your LAN, run cabin-fever-x86-core directly on a Linux box instead. And the game runs somewhere other than your machine, which is the point: the z-machine is a memory-unsafe C interpreter parsing files you downloaded, and it belongs behind a boundary.

Upgrading from 0.0.1a1? That release was the whole game, natively. This name is now the sandboxed launcher; the native install moved to cabin-fever-x86-core.

Full documentation lives in the repository.