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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by hombre_fatal »

apetresc wrote: post #107
hombre_fatal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems a bit unfair to only acknowledge one side of the trade-offs. Obviously native apps win the perf side. How about being able to play with your friends after just handing them a link? Native 1.6 doesn't even run on my computer at all. I think browser ports are the only hope that old games have at coming back. The other month I played Nox's quest mode with my friend on a browser emscripten port (plus a lot of custo…

Hey, can you send me a link to that Nox port? What a blast from the past - I remember saving up to buy that game as a kid :)

The subreddit has a small community of people playing. iirc there's a community server you can point the Gog.com binary to: http://old.reddit.com/r/nox. (The Gog.com binary actually runs on macOS if you're pre-Catalina as it's 32bit, they just removed the indication since everyone is on Catalina now)

The browser "port" is here: https://playnox.xyz/ (200mb) -- Whether online play is available or not can be hit or miss. The single player campaign does work as well -- worth it for insta-nostalgia.

I say "port" in quotes because it's not just a matter of `cat nox.exe | emscripten > nox.js` of course. The creator posts in the subreddit / the nox community forums and has some really interesting technical comments where he explains some of the challenges.

People who can pull off something like this (talk about cross-cutting engineering skills) really blow me away.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by eptcyka »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #74
me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

Seems a bit unfair to only acknowledge one side of the trade-offs. Obviously native apps win the perf side. How about being able to play with your friends after just handing them a link? Native 1.6 doesn't even run on my computer at all. I think browser ports are the only hope that old games have at coming back. The other month I played Nox's quest mode with my friend on a browser emscripten port (plus a lot of custo…

Mouse tracking is clearly broken on Firefox here. The input lag is insance. I wouldn't link this to any of my friends with the intention of getting them to play Counter Strike with me.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by valerij »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #111
apetresc wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, can you send me a link to that Nox port? What a blast from the past - I remember saving up to buy that game as a kid :)

The subreddit has a small community of people playing. iirc there's a community server you can point the Gog.com binary to: http://old.reddit.com/r/nox . (The Gog.com binary actually runs on macOS if you're pre-Catalina as it's 32bit, they just removed the indication since everyone is on Catalina now) The browser "port" is here: https://playnox.xyz/ (200mb) -- Whether online play is available or not can be hit or mis…

nice. i once spent a week trying to hack the engine to support widescreen resolutions. time to re-play it :D

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by rcconf »

That was amazing! This is so awesome. I just played for 30 minutes since I haven't played since I was a kid. I use to be very good and apparently still have it since I landed #1 after playing all the rounds :)

Thanks for sharing this, made my morning and took me away from development work for once!

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by userbinator »

lqet wrote: post #77
me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

I would actually love to see an old browser (e.g. IE 6) purely implemented in JavaScript to run inside a browser, without using the browser's DOM rendering capabilities (the web page should be rendered by the JS code on a element, input events should be correctly handled, and of course a JS engine also has to be implemented).

Here's Win95 in a browser: https://win95.ajf.me/

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

#118

Post by [deleted] »

throwawhey00 wrote: post #103
me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

This is a flippant useless negative comment on someone's cool effort. Looking at your other comments, and at your blog - everything is negative. "This sucks, this is crap, I would never use this". What's with all the negativity? Just give creating comments and posts about stuff you like a try. The internet is not short of critics to make useless negative comments.

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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by userbinator »

throwawhey00 wrote: post #103
me551ah wrote: post #37

I love how people like to make browser versions of everything. From chat apps to email clients to games. But they all end up consuming 10x the memory but are still 10x slower than their native counterparts !

This is a flippant useless negative comment on someone's cool effort. Looking at your other comments, and at your blog - everything is negative. "This sucks, this is crap, I would never use this". What's with all the negativity? Just give creating comments and posts about stuff you like a try. The internet is not short of critics to make useless negative comments.

I think it's a perfectly valid criticism of the ridiculous levels of resource wastage of software today.

This has merits as a form of art, but as something for practical use, I do not think we should be so wasteful with computing power.

For something related, but not so wasteful (and also a form of art), look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

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