Doom Ported To the Web
May 31st, 2011 05:39
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kripkenstein writes “Ever since Id Software released the Doom source code under the GPL, it’s been ported to platform after platform. Now, you can play Doom compiled to JavaScript on the web, using standard web technologies like Canvas and without any plugins. If your browser has trouble running it, here’s a screencast.” The translation was accomplished using Emscripten, a Javascript backend for LLVM. As per the GPL, full source code is available. Pretty neat.
Source: Doom Ported To the Web
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