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Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

koonsolo wrote: post #40
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 !

On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)

The first two are trivially solved by portable applications (AppDirs, Application Bundles, AppImage, etc.). Platform independence is only kinda true, as many of these things don't actually function correctly on anything but Chrome, so they effectively target just one platform.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by crawlcrawler »

rapsey wrote: post #34
tupac_speedrap wrote: post #7

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.

Russia is and always has been considered a European country.

I was always told Russia spans two continents.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

m0ck wrote: post #46
IvanK_net wrote: post #41

It took me almost a minute until I started to play. The rotation with a mouse was very slow (you have to move the mouse by a huge distance). I prefer to play https://www.krunker.io , where you can play immediately :)

There is a disclaimer that first loading is always a lot slower, since it is downloading and caching all the files

Even after that first time, it takes a good 20-30 seconds to process the files again.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

darcien wrote: 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/

So everything just moves up one layer of abstraction, takes the associated resource hit, and the cycle begins anew.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

rhlsthrm wrote: post #28
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Web has such nice tooling to develop for

...really? Web development is the absolute worst development experience I've had since doing COBOL in college. I have difficulty believing anyone can claim this who has ever developed with proper tooling for anything else.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by lxgr »

rhlsthrm wrote: post #28
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The current answer here seems to be Electron, which unfortunately means that I have about 20 copies of Chromium/Electron taking up disk space and memory on my computer.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by MayeulC »

As often, the keybindings use a QWERTY-centric layout, that doesn't make much sense if that's a different keyboard, and no obvious way to change it.

The steam controller API is nicely designed: you define actions, and let the user pick a way to trigger those actions. I think there are predefined ones that already have mappings for common input devices. The API then returns an image and name to correctly prompt the user. I wish we had something like this at the browser or operating system level.

Re: Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser

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Post by bluetomcat »

blattimwind wrote: post #27

This could serve as a demonstration what a long way way web sockets/rtc/channels still have to go, since the experience is much worse even considering the ping compared to 20 year old netcode.

I remember playing CS around 2000 on a 333-MHz Pentium II with an ATI Rage graphics card, and it was a much smoother experience in every way.
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