Doom Ported To the Web

[wraggster]

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.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/0...ted-To-the-Web

[JLF65]

About 1 to 3 FPS on my 1.6GHz CoreDuo... and it's not even full screen. Hope he didn't quit his day job.

[wraggster]

damn, not exactly playable

[JLF65]

Well, it IS javascript... maybe it's better on newer versions of web browsers that compile javascript. I'm still on FF 3.6.x. It should be faster in 4.x.