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Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by rollcat »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #448
rollcat wrote: post #265

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> on Macs the CMD key is simply a poor man's CTRL key, except when you are in a terminal, where you have to use CTRL again... Let me check. Cmd-F in Notes.app, finds things in the current note. Cmd-F in Terminal.app, finds things in the current terminal session's history. Cmd-C in Calendar.app, copies an event. Cmd-C in Terminal.app, copies the selected text. Cmd-T in Finder.app, opens a tab. Cmd-T in Terminal.app, o…

> Cmd-F in Terminal.app, finds things in the current terminal session's history. > Cmd-C in Terminal.app, copies the selected text. you gotta love Mac users and their cultural bubble these are non standard keybindings for a Unix shell so if you are in every other Unix, you have to relearn them Apple is basically crippling you and locking you in, teaching you the wrong way to do stuff. It's like learning Italian from…

> you gotta love Mac users and their cultural bubble

I've been using Windows for ~10, Linux for ~20, and Mac for 4 years. I've also worked on my own toy terminal emulator and shell. I believe that good design should be recognised for what it is, regardless of branding, and learned from to improve different aspects of the tools we build and use.

I would very much appreciate it if we could continue this conversation without assuming bias or ignorance.

> these are non standard keybindings for a Unix shell

The shell can't interpret Cmd, which is exactly my point. The terminal emulator is able to provide functionality that the shell alone can't (unless the shell takes on some part of the terminal's duties, a la tmux).

> Apple is [...] teaching you the wrong way to do stuff.

What is the correct way to copy text from a terminal then?

I just want to copy text back & forth between a terminal and a browser. I don't want to memorise two different sets of keybindings to perform the same action. I don't care if copy is Ctrl-Shift-C, or Win-CapsLock-2, I just want the key bindings to remain consistent, to reduce mental fatigue.

> When I'm in VSCode the left mouse click doesn't shoot at anything...

If I'd open Counter Strike in VS Code (100% possible, see TFA), then I would 100% expect left click to shoot.

On the other hand, I've had to rebind some of my StarCraft II hotkeys to make them work on Windows, because normally I use Alt+[F1-F4] for setting up camera hotkeys and... Alt-F4 does something special on Windows, that the game can't ignore.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by moring »

vuln wrote: post #251
sneak wrote: post #241

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I wonder if that's legal, given that mapmaking is protected expression, and a recent ruling saying that (public) schools can't police protected expression off of school grounds. Without a clear expression of threat, I don't think simple mapmaking is sufficient grounds for a terror threat charge.

> simple mapmaking It's not simple mapmaking though is it? It's creating a map inside a video game to simulate school grounds. Drawing a map of the school and putting it in a frame on your wall? Fine. Drawing a map, recreating it inside a first person shooter, then spending hours playing (training) memorizing the map? I believe anyone could see that as a terroristic threat. Edit: Example Legos. Having a Lego model of…

> Drawing a map, recreating it inside a first person shooter, then spending hours playing (training) memorizing the map? I believe anyone could see that as a terroristic threat.

I'd like to point out that "legal" means "not forbidden by law", which in our default-allow mode means "no law exists that prohibits it". This affects both criminal charges for playing CS in a school-like map as well as the behaviour of the school in response to that.

The correct way to assess legality is therefore not "anyone could see" but "is there a law that prohibits it?"

(Note that the hurdle to expulsion may be lower than for criminal charges.)

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by nonplus »

BearOso wrote: post #386
ddtaylor wrote: post #239

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> My friends and I would build CounterStrike maps that were the layout of our highschool and would then run around and shoot each other. There was a small netcafe nearby when I was young that had a good quality T1 connection and hosted their own CS servers. Some of the players got together and actually mapped out the entire netcafe store itself and some of the surrounding area to create a "de_" style map. This meant…

> a "de_" style map Those prefixes indicate the map mission type, not a style. "de" indicates a de molition or de fusal mission. The actual official map name is what's after the underscore. I think there were only those and the "cs" "counterstrike" hostage maps at the start.

vip_ was another early map type that existed pre 1.6.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by phplovesong »

Seanambers wrote: post #372
manual89 wrote: post #283

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I remember the days when I tried to play Quake on my 28.8 modem over the net pre-Quakeworld. Almost made me swear online multiplayer off for life.

You should've tried Doom over dialup :)

Duke nukem 3d. Dialup. Wow thats pure nostalgia!

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by nonplus »

friendlyHornet wrote: post #353
zactato wrote: post #167

I remember playing one of the early CS betas as a Half-life mod in ~1999. It was such a huge leap in gameplay and style from anything else out there. Most FPSs up to this point were SciFi based, guns like the BFG and plasma guns. Counterstrike's focus on realism really altered how you connected with the game. Columbine had happened very recently and was still very much in the zeitgeist. There was a very real cultural…

Making maps for Half-Life and Portal is what lead me down the path to become a software developer. I was never that good a mapper but it got me into computers in general. If I had never discovered Hammer Editor on one summer afternoon in 2008, my life would be SOOOO different

Very similar story here.

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by rollcat »

Zagill wrote: post #373
LAC-Tech wrote: post #347

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Not trying to convert anyone, but changing keybindings is pretty easy in almost any unix window manager and/or desktop environment I've ever tried.

I haven't looked in a while but I could never find an easy way to mimic macOS's cmd/ctrl behavior in Linux. Being able to cmd+c to copy from a terminal window comes in clutch.

https://kinto.sh/

Re: Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

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Post by 1maginary »

hackernewds wrote: post #58
lqet wrote: post #39

To this day, I still have exact intuition for the time span between "Fire in the hole!" and "Boom".

still have B32, B14, commacommacomma memorized

Surely you mean B43 heh.

Those binds all work on this version btw! I automatically did b43o2,,,o3o4o5 and got everything I wanted

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