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Play Doom in Your Web Browser
Take it back to your FPS roots and enjoy a round or two of the classic shooter Doom right in your web browser.
Doom has been ported to dozens of computer platforms, game consoles, mobile platforms, and now, finally, to the web. By leveraging the power of Emscrpten (and LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler) Asakai, a developer in the Mozilla Developer Network, has ported Doom into a java-based environment. You can enjoy the classic shooter right in your browser, no additional downloads or plugins necessary.
We were able to play it without any problems using a current Firefox build but found it choppy using a current Chrome build. Sound off in the comments to share which browsers/browser releases you’re having luck with to help your fellow readers get their Doom-shooting-joy on faster.
Doom on the Web [Mozilla Developer Network]
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Didn’t work on chrome.
Was alright on FF for some time, after which it crashed…i was actually into it :) I could never even do the first level when i was a child.
I couldn’t get it to run on either Chrome or Firefox 4.0X with any luck. Frame rates went up with Firefox, but it was still unplayable.
All I get on Chrome or FF is “Demo is from a different game version”
You mentioned firefox and chorme above,It means that we can only play it in the two browsers?
I wanna know if it works in IE or other browsers like slim browser,Avant browser ?
I get same results as Jim — ” . . . different game version”
I get the same results as above with Firefox 4 … dosen’t do anything …can’t play
ZOMG! MAKE IT MULTIPLAYER!!!!!!!! :)
OK. Is there a Doom download for playing in the browser? Boy am I dumb. But I’d like to try if anyone could please tell me … how?
Website is completely down now. they must have a bug or too many people showed to play it. Either way it’s down.
It’s down. Oh well, time to fire up ZDoom.
It’s down
this si where the link goes So its not a valid Link or Mozilla Pulled the Site Application for DOOM
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