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Re:Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C by hbn on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:19AM (#37524383)
Minecraft was officially playable in the browser from the website back in the day!
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Re:Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C by throwaway74902 on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:32AM (#37524598)
Using Java applet...
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Re:Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C by jakobson14 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:46PM (#37550918)
what did you expect? the game is written in java
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Re:Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C by throwaway74902 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @06:37AM (#37567938)
Just saying that it's not really running in the web browser, merely displayed within it. And won't run today.
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Re:Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C by jakobson14 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @02:38PM (#37626070)
To "run in the web browser" you mean rewriting the game in javascript.

No, webassembly wasn't a thing yet at the time (arguably still isn't). I'm not sure emscripten existed, and even when it works it turns 20KB C++ binaries into 3MB of broken javascript. Non-starter for a performance-sensitive game engine.

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