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Multiplayer Space Quest in a Browser

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taran-meets-roger-wilco dept.

Martin Kool writes "As a sequel to Quek we at Q42 are proud to present another DHTML javascript showcase: Good Old Adventures Remember the classic adventures games like Larry and Space Quest? Well, now you can play them online, multiplayer, right there in your browser." My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.

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  1. Linux? by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm really into these new Flash websites, but I still think it's a shame we can't do Flash programming on our Linux boxes.

    Doesn't Marcomedia realize that ~ 25% of computer users *dont* run Windows?

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    1. Re:Linux? by Trogre · · Score: 2, Insightful

      One of the reasons why I say bring on SVG :)

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    2. Re:Linux? by jsse · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Doesn't Marcomedia realize that ~ 25% of computer users *dont* run Windows?

      They do realize very few among that 25% would buy their products for Windows. :)

    3. Re:Linux? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Doesn't Marcomedia realize that ~ 25% of computer users *dont* run Windows?
      Sure they do. That's why they release all these products for the Mac, i.e. the platform most graphic designers use.

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  2. "Flood Filling" is a false memory by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 2, Insightful

    CowboyNeal is mistaken if he thinks a Sierra game like SQ or LLL forced the user to watch floodfilling happen. Those games used precomputed pixmaps for graphics- there was be a severe delay as they were loaded from a (5.25") floppy for each new screen, but you couldn't actually watch the graphics redraw.

    There were other games who exposed the process of rendering 2d vector graphics. I recall a few "Carmen Sandiego" clones for IBM PC or Apple that did this around 1982.

    Going back even further, Sierra had some games like "Mystery House" which did monochrome line art. IDR if there was floodfilling or not.

  3. Re:No... by BitHive · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is this a troll? I used Mozilla (mostly as a MUA) for a long time and switched to Opera 7 a few days ago. The difference is night & day! Mozilla feels clunky and bloated (gee, maybe it *is*), whilst Opera is nimble even with a much better skin engine and a more graphically rich interface!

  4. Re:Does not work in mozilla by helmutjd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It doesn't use Flash, it's just really crazy DHTML/Javascript... I thought it was Flash at first, too, but if you right-click you can see otherwise.

    I'm not really sure what the point of the project is, though... they obviously spent a LOT of time making it look and feel just like the original games, but you can't actually do anything but walk around.

    Cool concept, but... could've done a lot more with it.