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🖥️ OldGenWeb — Win98 Edition

Tampilan jadul, kemampuan 2026.
_{A Windows 98 desktop that lives in your browser — wired to a real-time backend so everyone shares the same room.}

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✦ Features

App	What it does
💬 Chat	MSN/mIRC-style live chat, broadcast to everyone in the room
👥 Who's Online	Live presence list — see who just walked in
🖱️ Live Cursors	Other visitors' mouse pointers glide across your desktop in real time
🎨 Paint (shared)	Collaborative MS Paint — every stroke is broadcast to all painters

All windows are draggable, minimizable, and stack with real z-ordering — just like the real thing.

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✦ Tech Stack

🪟 Frontend React 19 + Vite + TypeScript react95 — authentic Win98 component kit styled-components Native WebSocket client w/ auto-reconnect

⚙️ Backend Go 1.25 — module oldgenweb/backend gorilla/websocket Single broadcast hub fanning frames to every client

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✦ System Requirements

  Pentium II 266 MHz ........ or any browser from this decade
  64 MB RAM ................. a single tab will do
  Go 1.25+ ................. for the server
  Node 18+ ................. for the client dev server
  Sound Blaster 16 ......... optional; dial-up noises sold separately

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✦ Getting Started

1. Boot the backend port 8080

cd backend
go run .

_{Health check: http://localhost:8080/healthz}

2. Boot the frontend port 5173

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:5173, pick a name, and you're on the desktop. Open a second tab (or send a friend the link) to watch chat, cursors, and paint sync live.

📦 Production build

cd frontend && npm run build   # outputs frontend/dist

The Go server serves ./public if you drop the built assets there.

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✦ Built for the Public — Safe by Default

This is a public, multi-user toy, so every untrusted input is guarded:

🚧 Per-IP connection limit	caps simultaneous sockets per address
🪣 Token-bucket rate limiting	flood guard for all traffic + a stricter bucket just for chat
🧼 Input sanitization	UTF-8 validation, control-char stripping, rune-aware length caps
🎨 Paint validation	hex colors allow-listed, coordinates clamped to [0,1], brush size clamped

_{Abusive clients get silently dropped instead of taking the room down.}

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✦ Roadmap

[x] Win98 desktop shell (windows, taskbar, Start menu)
[x] Real-time chat + presence + live cursors
[x] Collaborative MS Paint
[ ] Guestbook (persisted server-side)
[ ] Retro atmosphere: boot screen, Web Audio beeps, CRT scanline toggle
[ ] Clippy (canned, rule-based — no paid LLM)
[ ] Minesweeper

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