Some months ago, I have discovered a source-port for Quake2 in JAVA. This is called Jake2.
You can see the web page here: http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html
Then, you will ask...Quake2 on JAVA, maybe cool...but what is matter? The cool thing is that you can play Quake2 using your web browser, if it has JWS (Java Web Start) installed and supported. Also needed JRE 1.4. I have see also a port of crossfire, using JAVA, then, a cool idea, can be to play CF over the web browser, usin also JWS. This can allow to play CF without any installation, compilation or so on, or maybe, players who can't download software fron the web, to play Crossfire. For example, from a University, from the job, and more.
I have tested the Jake2, and he goes at same speed than normal Quake2 (using Linux).
Also, JCrossfire is more playable over windows than the GTK version (i have tested gcfclient on windows, and it is really slow) But the very best of JCrossfire over the browser is that the user will be playing the last version released of JCrossfire.
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