Someone Else's Hack: Wolfenstein 5k

[Kirk Is]

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There's a cool contest at http://www.the5k.org/ , make the coolest webpage
that's under 5k for the total download. I can't believe Wolfenstein 5k
didn't win: http://www.innofinity.com/5k/2002/

He gets a playable FPS, similar in rendering engine to circa-1992ish
Wolfenstein 3D, in 5k of javascript. How he makes the graphic is
particularly clever: there's an old text-based graphics format called
"XBM", and javascript can generate that on the fly, and on at least some
browsers you can do something like
<IMG SRC="javascript:javascript expression here">

I think it works on WIn IE and Netscape, though not Mac IE or Mozilla.

very cool, though...

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