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  • As much as I dislike webdev stuff, I love the way you can distribute entire programs through WASM. Super cool stuff! For those who are interested, I recommend checking out Godot for exporting games on the web. It's really easy to do and you can host it on Itch.io
    by LandenLove
  • I remember saving up for a year to buy the ATI Radeon 9600 XT (I think it was $200 MSRP) so I could play the game on high settings. Now we can play it inside a virtual machine on a crappy laptop. What a journey
    by typon
  • Cool!

    I recently ported Doom on browser so that you can easily play multi-player (up to 4) completely free (you can host it yourself on Cloudflare)

    https://playdoom.ossy.dev/

    by postatic
  • With WASM and WebGL being mature technologies, I'm not sure why there aren't more video games published this way. For really big games with lots of assets, having those assets in local storage makes sense. But I wouldn't mind if a game "installer" is just your browser asking "This game wants to use up to 20 GB of local disc space. Is that okay?"
    by hwc
  • That's also the kind of Website, beside the impressive technical result, that reminds me nothing can be blocked.

    It's not about bypassing VPN or deep pack inspection, rather it's about how once anything, including a very complex video game (like here) to an entire OS with a host machine (like QEMU on WASM, or a random InternetArchive link about emulation) is "just" a Web page that can be hosted... on anything (including a 10 bucks Rasperry Pi Zero which can also be an AP, a phone obviously, heck even a e-cig!) then it doesn't matter what is "blocked" as it can be brought to anyone with no installation.

    by utopiah
  • Here is a link to the blog post since I didn’t see it mentioned

    https://www.slqnt.dev/blog/hl2-in-web

    by memoryuns4f3fff
  • Interesting, I am not able to play HL2 on Steam because macOS no longer has 32-bit support and Valve never compiled if for 64-bit but here we are, it’s playable on the same OS in the browser.

    BTW IIRC there was some method to convert the 32-bit game binaries to make them run on recent macs. I remember doing it.

    by mrtksn
  • And Quake 3: https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/

    And Unreal Tournament: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut

    There's also https://noclip.website/ which, while not playable, has hundreds of levels from dozens of older games that you can explore freely. Including Half-Life 2, with more accurate rendering than this web port (which seems to be missing many shaders including character eyes).

    by modeless

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