We’ve seen a whole bunch of games created in or ported to new browser technologies lately. But what about the original DOOM, one of the most ported games of all time?
DOOM has finally been ported to HTML5 and JavaScript, joining the growing club of games that showcase the incredible opportunities of new web technologies, each one putting another bullet in Flash’s dying chest.
Agent 8 Ball was the first of these new generation games we covered at The Next Web. It surprised more than a few friends when I told them that there was absolutely no Flash involved.
Head over to the Mozilla Developer Network to give the game a try. The controls are the standards of the early 90s shooters: the arrow keys for movement instead of the modern WASD configuration, Control to shoot and Space to open doors.
What system and browser it support?
Can I run it in my window and IE or Avant browser?
You said “Head over to the Mozilla Developer Network to give the game a try.” that means it just support firefox?
There’s also Roozz up in Denmark, that is able to take any of these old games and make them run in any browser. We ran around playing Duke Nukem 3D and the platform can convert basically any old software into browser software. Pretty cool stuff.
<3 IE9
@elfsun Avant browser? Which era are you living in mate? Opera, Chrome, Firefox and IE support HTML 5
Brought Chrome (latest version) to a standstill, including other tabs. Worked in FF4 though.
@Leong Soong Yup, apparently it only works in FF and Safari.
@elfsun Apparently, it’s only FF and Safari compatible. Strange.
I get a 404 error. Is it removed..? =(
DEAD LINK GOD DAMNIT!
It’s been DMCA’d apparently :(
Ohhhhh found the source code – http://www.syntensity.com/static/doom.source.tar.bz2