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Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by kinleyd »

webXL wrote: post #28
kinleyd wrote: 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

In addition to Wolfenstein:

My first addiction: Space Invaders (1982-84) Next major addiction: Test Drive (1989-90) Thereafter: Hacking in some form or other... little time for games. :)

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by aw3c2 »

pitiburi wrote: post #27
aw3c2 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Bethesda is "proactively overly protective". All their sites have age-confirmation pages before any content. ALL their youtube videos are flagged as potentially inappropiate. I guess for some reason they think they are obliged to follow every country's laws even if they are an USAmerican company (I guess). It really annoys me and makes me think less of them.

As a german it is not forbidden to access such material from all I know. It is also not forbidden to own it or play it. You are "just" not allowed to promote/buy/talk/provide it to others.

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by jiggy2011 »

aw3c2 wrote: post #2

and watch John Carmack's commentary on Wolf3D at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDtAPHH-zE

Worth watching, many words of Wisdom in there for aspiring game developers, or developers in general.

He talks about how he specifically designed wolf3d so that you could just "bang enter a couple of times" and be into the game while modern AAA titles can have complex interfaces.

Also how you should be able to hack together the core concepts of a good game with a small team in a few months (as they did with wolf3d).

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by ConstantineXVI »

pitiburi wrote: post #27
aw3c2 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

IIRC, in the later Wolfenstein games, id doesn't use the swastika or any other explicit Nazi-related material.

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by mkup »

phoboslab wrote: post #26

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

Which key should I press to shoot? Original DOS version used [Ctrl] as far as I remember. It doesn't work in browser.

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by agazso »

mkup wrote: post #36
phoboslab wrote: post #26

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

Which key should I press to shoot? Original DOS version used [Ctrl] as far as I remember. It doesn't work in browser.

Press 'x' to shoot.

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by vbtemp »

This is a scam, I distinctly remember from my time playing this in the early nineties, that holding down the I + L + M keys all at the same time would give you full health, full ammo, and both keys.

This doesn't have that!!!!

Re: Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

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Post by augusto_hp »

lunixbochs wrote: post #20
roschdal wrote: post #14

This has already been done long ago, here: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/

That canvas renderer is really buggy.

It was done for a contest with a given limit LOC. The idea of the guy was not to create a perfect port, was to create something like wolf3d with little lines of code.

It is buggy on "purpuse" in some kind of way ...

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