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  modeless
  And Quake 3: https://thelongestyard.link/q3a-demo/And Unreal Tournament: https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=utThere's also https://noclip.website/ which, while not playable, has hundreds of levels from dozens of older games that you can explore freely. Including Half-Life 2, with more accurate rendering than this web port (which seems to be missing many shaders including character eyes).
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  mrtksn
  Interesting, I am not able to play HL2 on Steam because macOS no longer has 32-bit support and Valve never compiled if for 64-bit but here we are, it’s playable on the same OS in the browser.BTW IIRC there was some method to convert the 32-bit game binaries to make them run on recent macs. I remember doing it.
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  utopiah
  That's also the kind of Website, beside the impressive technical result, that reminds me nothing can be blocked.It's not about bypassing VPN or deep pack inspection, rather it's about how once anything, including a very complex video game (like here) to an entire OS with a host machine (like QEMU on WASM, or a random InternetArchive link about emulation) is "just" a Web page that can be hosted... on anything (including a 10 bucks Rasperry Pi Zero which can also be an AP, a phone obviously, heck even a e-cig!) then it doesn't matter what is "blocked" as it can be brought to anyone with no installation.
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  memoryuns4f3fff
  Here is a link to the blog post since I didn’t see it mentionedhttps://www.slqnt.dev/blog/hl2-in-web
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  AzzyHN
  This is cool, and also probably illegal, since you don't own any of this and don't have the right to redistribute it.
• entropyneur
  Whew. Crashed before I sunk my day there.
• Artoooooor
  What a time to be alive. My suggestion: progress bars instead of throbbers during loading data.
• 0x0
  I just wish Valve could add official macos-arm64 builds of the various hl2 games on Steam :-/
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  LandenLove
  As much as I dislike webdev stuff, I love the way you can distribute entire programs through WASM. Super cool stuff! For those who are interested, I recommend checking out Godot for exporting games on the web. It's really easy to do and you can host it on Itch.io
• ironhaven
  First half life one in browser now we have half life 2! I guess it’s that time again Mr Freeman
• fuzzy2
  Very cool. The download progress bar is broken though, it receives values 0-1 but the max is set to 300.
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  antalis
  The screens are missing and the lips don't move, but it's pretty close!
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  pelagicAustral
  Ah! Just in time for HL3
• vladar107
  What's the biggest bottleneck you hit - GPU compute, memory bandwidth, or network latency for asset streaming? Curious how it compares to native WebGPU.
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  schappim
  If they have halflife 2 in the browser, I wonder if this means they can do original CS in the browser too!
• acosmism
  i need a gary's mod
• GL26
  Is there a repo for this ? Can we mod it ?
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  typon
  I remember saving up for a year to buy the ATI Radeon 9600 XT (I think it was $200 MSRP) so I could play the game on high settings. Now we can play it inside a virtual machine on a crappy laptop. What a journey
• othmanosx
  What about gaming on a mac?
• bozdemir
  What a time to be alive :D
• Beijinger
  play-cs.com
• NovaCode37
  Looks pretty good
• gambiting
  What I find incredibly impressive is that it just loaded in and seems to work fine on my phone. So cool.
• diimdeep
  Cool, but then game hangs in city square.
• globular-toast
  I've played this from the start until around Ravenholm probably close to a hundred times. It's so familiar to me. There's some funky stuff going on for me, though. The characters' eyes are all wrong. G-man had no eyes at all. And the giant screen with Breen on it was missing.Can't believe it runs as well as it does on my non-gaming laptop without even seeming to struggle. It's funny when you leave a hobby for a while. I haven't played games since the HL2 era so for me this is still state of the art.I did say a couple of years ago that if HL3 ever came out, and it was good, that it would make me buy another gaming PC. But with current prices I don't even think that would make me do it.
• Hamuko
  Tried it on my M4 iPad Pro and was surprised that it works - to a degree. NPCs (Gman and the citizens on the train) seem to be missing eyes and have no mouth animations. FPS was pretty poor too, and it was ass to use the camera on the trackpad.
• kevinten10
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  rvz
  While technically impressive, this is also illegal. (unless you have redistribution permission from the authors.)