POSTED BY

Rob Beschizza

AT 9:00 AM
Monday November 24, 2008

Retro

doomflash

Welcome to your Doom in a browser

browser_doom.jpg
Ported directly to Flash 10 thanks to Adobe's Alchemy, which allows coders to compile C and C++ into their Actionscript creations, Doom may now be shot up in the browser.

Author "Mike" from Newsgrounds offers few clues as to how he went about it, but it works well enough: it's like having a 133Mhz Pentium all over again!

Though it includes only the shareware portion of the game, it's high time Flash, given its ubiquity, started making progress on the pretty-pictures front—anyone familiar with the Unity browser plug-in knows that there's no technical reason browser games can't serve up high-performance visuals.

Doom in a browser [Newsgrounds via RPS]

4 Comments

Vveneziani

#1 – 9:53 AM November 24, 2008

Newgrounds, dude. Newgrounds.

Nice find though!

failix

#2 – 12:26 PM November 24, 2008

YES! The day has finally come ^^

cha0tic

#3 – 7:20 PM December 10, 2008

I may never sleep again.

Luke Alexander

#4 – 11:40 AM August 17, 2009

Cool!, though this would have been cooler should I have found this out a year ago. But am now also hooked on online games like www.ponged.com.

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