Running Pong in 240 browser tabs

Re:Running Pong in 240 browser tabs by LonelyWolfe on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:39PM (#43121313)

I'm calling it - Doom is next.

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Re:Running Pong in 240 browser tabs by eieio on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:50PM (#43121451)

Doom is kind of a pain because:

    * afaik I'm capped at 4 FPS (just how often you can update tabs)
    * more of the screen is likely to update on each frame, which requires way more "turning canvases into data urls to update favicons," which is expensive with my current implementation (although I wasn't aware of offscreencanvas, which might help here)

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Re:Running Pong in 240 browser tabs by graypegg on Friday February 21, 2025 @10:40AM (#43128735)

To be fair, doom is also a pain on a calculator[0]/pregnancy test[1]/milling machine[2]/touch bar[3]/PDF document[4]! I think that's part of the fun!

I absolutely love this stuff... I sort of think Doom at 4FPS is... juuuuust in the realm of playable if you've played it before haha

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2251463

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24396780

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/ezuw1f/doom_on_cnc_ma...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13008315

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678754

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Re:Running Pong in 240 browser tabs by rhgraysonii on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:42PM (#43121348)

I believe that Nolen has already done doom in iPhoto, if you are into that kind of thing.

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