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Galaki on 01 June 2011

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Doom is now playable on your web browser

By George Wong - 05/31/2011 18:58 PDT

Fans of the first person shooter that revolutionized the gaming industry, Doom, will be please to know that they can still play the game on their current computers. And they won’t have to worry about running DOS emulators or getting Windows to work in compatibility modes: a developer named Alon Zakai has managed to port the game over to the web browser.

The game’s source code was compiled to JavaScript from C using Emscripten and Clang and optimized with Closure Compiler. If you’d like to find out more about the technical details etc, just head over to the project’s web page and you can get the source code from here. If you have no interest in finding out what happened behind the scenes, you can just play the game right here. It requires Firefox or Safari to run though.

With games like Doom now playable on the browser, I wonder what other games will make the transition in the future?


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mchaza on 01 June 2011

never played doom 



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Linkasf on 01 June 2011
mchaza said:

never played doom 


Well you SHOULD.



NiKKoM on 01 June 2011

Another doom thread... ¬_¬



 

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mchaza on 01 June 2011

i went to the link and i am not getting any doom but some flashes doom title id software credits and an order doom add with the text down the bottom stating "Demo is from a different game version!". 

so much for free doom. 



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PullusPardus on 01 June 2011

Wow this is old as hell, a couple of years old... hello? we are in 2011 not 2001, people been doing this since firefox came out.



786_ali on 01 June 2011

Played this one some time ago; but couldn't complete it because when you reach a certain point, your save files stop working properly. So I just gave up.



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Porcupine_I on 01 June 2011

Welcome! Man from the past! bearer of old news! thou hast travelled to the year 2011! We mean you no harm!



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

Galaki on 01 June 2011

This is current news on several tech sites to me. *shrugs*



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huaxiong90 on 01 June 2011
mchaza said:

never played doom 

What are you waiting for?!



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