Doom Ported To the Web 248
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.
Come on, you could do this with flash 2 years ago (Score:2, Interesting)
Here's the link: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/470460, plus: it does run with a higher framerate.
Re:Sound is abysmal (Score:5, Interesting)
So... no music, and the sound effects are like a half second delayed from the action, AND they sound really REALLY bad.
I agree, the sound is terrible, sorry about that. I don't know much about how sound stuff works, that is the best I could do in a few hours of hacking something together with the Audio Data API.