From b8007c82734213c95eeabd3911d07a17bbb4ad02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Fredricksen Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:15:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Information, in raw form --- info.html | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 info.html diff --git a/info.html b/info.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6bad5e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/info.html @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Thanks to recent advances in browser technology, it has been possible +to port Progress Quest to run right in your browser. It wasn't easy; +we started with hardware emulation of a 80386-equipped PC clone +running a novel Windows XP compatable operating system called ProgrOS, +implemented in a clean room in the Seychelles by a team of people who +had never programmed before (to ensure no copyrights would be +violated). + +Unfortuantely that wan't fast enough (too much lag death), so we +instead emulated the much faster Cray-2 supercomputer and ran the +80386 emulator in that. But the 80386 kept getting hot, so we switched +to a 6502 overclocked at 120GHz with emulated liquid helium coolant, +and ported ProgrOS to that. + +That seems to work pretty well with many of the modern browsers +(Chrome, Firefox, Safari). At the moment Opera seems to work just +okay, and Internet Explorer has some real problems. (But if you're +running IE, you're on Windows, and so just download the game!) Things +aren't as good as they could be on touchscreen devices such as the +iPad yet either. + +This edition of the game is only single player - the saves exist only +on your local machine, and there is no Hall of Fame yet. If anyone +cares, that will come later. +