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Quake2 Ported to Java, Play Via the Web

Posted by Hemos on from the keepin-it-old-school dept.

casemon writes "Quake2 fans unite! Thanks to German software developer ByTonic software, you can now play Quake2 via the web with Jake2 a java port of ID Softwares seminal Quake2. ByTonic claims performance is similar to original C version. From the Jake2 website; "Jake2 is a Java 3D game engine. It is a port of the GPL'd Quake2 game engine from idSoftware. To use the Jake2 engine you need either the data files from the original game or from the demo version available for download from ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com." You actually don't need to get the data files, they've set it up to automatically download the 38Mb demo assets using WebStart. Just click the Play Now button and away you go. Most features supported, even multiplayer server!"

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  1. Erm, link: by medgooroo · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html just thought it might be, you know, handy?

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    1. Re:Erm, link: by bpatinifurtado · · Score: 3, Informative

      It is awesome what they have did!

      I have a real good computer (memory, processor and video card) but I must tell you, the game runs really fast, you dont have the feeling of running a java application with all those 3 dimensional objects flying around you. You cant tell thats a program being interpreted.

      Great job folks! The Java community has only to earn with this proof of concepts works :)

      I have been there

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    2. Re:Erm, link: by The+Other+White+Boy · · Score: 3, Informative

      it has mirrors in the dropdown, i'm getting 120k/s from the german one.

  2. Works pretty well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I saw it at swing sightings. I tried it with the original game files and didn't notice any difference in speed with the original binaries.
    And this with a not so fast computer: PIII 800, TNT 2, 384 MB RAM.
    Anyway if you wanna see benchmarks with older computers look at their web.

  3. Re:"...performance is similar to original C versio by steevc · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check out the benchmarks. Similar frame rates to the C version on the same hardware.

    I've not tried it myself yet. Might get in trouble at work.

  4. Good morning, Already there in Mustang by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mustang (Java 6) which is under Open development (not quite open source license) already has wider support for clear type than Microsoft... So you are right its a bit late but people have invested work into that.
    Swing is not slow or bloated, it just can't be compared to the native OS size since it duplicates its functionality so its memory usage seems high in the task manager. Startup time and cold start is improving with every release and building serious client side Java applications is becoming a very real option.

  5. screenshots by tezbobobo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are some screen shots, coz that's most important and what people really want and shit...

  6. Re:The Slowness Of Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The benchmarks clearly show that the java version is as fast as the original C version.