[Gawen Arab]

Hey all,

I've been hacking on EDuke32 again, and this one's a bit of a personal milestone.

I first tried to get it running in a browser about 10 years ago, back then there was no Asyncify and WebAssembly wasn't really a thing yet, so I ended up writing my own stack-unwinding scheme to let the engine's synchronous main loop yield to the browser event loop. Single-player sort of worked, but multiplayer was hopeless: just to slow to be playable.

Ten years later, Asyncify and WASM have matured to the point where it's actually viable. So I picked the project back up, and I'm happy to share where it's at: it runs in the browser, and multiplayer works now (WebRTC under the hood).

Try it here: https://gawen.me/webduke

I'd like to upstream this properly rather than sit on a fork, so I'm splitting it into focused, reviewable MRs against master. The first is the foundation: EDuke32 compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten

Feedback very welcome, and thanks for keeping this engine alive all these years.

Come get some. 😎

[stillTodd]

First - this is freakin' awesome to see.

On my system and at the moment, it is too slow to play, about 2 FPS. I run FireFox if that means anything.

I need to upgrade my system anyways (it's a 11yo fanless tablet thingy running Win10) and wondered if there were any minimum suggestions for CPU (architecture, speed, # of cores), amount of RAM and/or GPU if germane. For that matter, I was considering upgrading to something like Mint.

Any thoughts? I'm big on fully depreciated business Thinkpads, especially the ones with that little red button in the middle of the keyboard.