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Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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post #4

As far as i can see, this is all done without the canvas tag or webGL, just lots of divs and CSS. Impressive :) For those who just want to play directly: http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html

Looks like a lot of Javascript too! http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/js/load.js

Interesting, it looks like they rewrote all the code in JS. I wonder why they didn't compile it.

Just speculation, but compiling might have led to a faster result (the compiled Doom was faster than this).

edit: Nevermind, looks like it renders using divs and not canvas. I guess they focused on compatibility with as many browsers as possible and not on performance.

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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I feel like a second class citizen. I can't play the game, nor watch the video (without proxies and stuff), because - oh my god - there's swastikas in them.

Anyway, mirror of the game: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/

Uploading the video now... [edit]: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/commentary.flv

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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post #16
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, its not banned. Since April 2012. Bethesda is working hard to get all of IDs IP approved again. Doom, Doom 2 and Quake are also not banned anymore. http://www.areagames.de/artikel/detail/Indizierungen-im-Apri... (link in german, obviously :) )

Wolfenstein 3D is banned. It is just not "indiziert" anymore. It is never going to be unbanned because of the unconstitutional stuff (swastikas, HorstWessel Song etc). Your link is about a different game by the way.

I also got the "Sorry, your IP address shows you are coming from a country that requires us to block access to this particular site." My question is, then, why am I able to play Enemy Territory and go through forums of it?

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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post #24

Ah, Wolfenstein... takes me back to some good gaming days in my youth. :)

I was so psyched when I first played this because Castle Wolfenstein* was the first computer game I was addicted to. Something about sneaking up on Nazis and filling them up with lead. It never gets old!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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post #28
post #24

Ah, Wolfenstein... takes me back to some good gaming days in my youth. :)

I was so psyched when I first played this because Castle Wolfenstein* was the first computer game I was addicted to. Something about sneaking up on Nazis and filling them up with lead. It never gets old! * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein

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