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Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

#21
Noice. A mac mini late 2012 w/ a 4K monitor was faster than my water-cooled AMD K6. :-@-)

~20 years after playing CS beta 0.4x, I just am too old to play FPS twitch games. :D I was playing from Davis, CA to Stanford, CA with a 7 ms ping due to 1/2 T1 (768 kbps) SDSL (with a static IP!) from Verio/NTT for $60/month around 1999. At our house, our router was a Linux box I cobbled together and put a CS server on it. Good times. B-]

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

#24

I like how they have Russia as the flag of Europe despite most of the country not even being in Europe, most people would use the EU flag but I guess this is CS 1.6 so they are most likely a fair few Russians about.

I'm guessing all their EU servers are in Russia. My ping was pretty high from France.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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post #16

Wow, this is really cool. I wonder if in the future, everything will run on the browser, and most software doesn't care about the OS at all. There's even a xkcd comic about this[0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/934/

You can't really make this statement without linking to https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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post #16

Wow, this is really cool. I wonder if in the future, everything will run on the browser, and most software doesn't care about the OS at all. There's even a xkcd comic about this[0]. [0] https://xkcd.com/934/

Technically it can, but money from Appstore, Playstore, Windows Store is too lucrative for the behemoths to give up their hold on them to improve the browser ecosystem & web apps in general.

Is there a way to reconcile this? Web has such nice tooling to develop for, but it's also nice to have the discoverability and monetization opportunities of a centralized app store.
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