What's also amazing is how someone ported Nox to the browser. Similar but more arena-style game (by Westwood) that was unfortunately overshadowed by Diablo at the time.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Nox/comments/bkvc0s/nox_in_a_browser_take_2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Nox/comments/bkvc0s/nox_in_a_browse...</a><p><a href="https://playnox.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://playnox.xyz/</a><p>Even multiplayer works. Insane amount of work.<p>I highly recommend at least trying the campaign (not the "Quest" mode). It's like a faster Diablo.<p>It's under active development, and sometimes the initial download can't complete on my crappy connection.
<i>Hello My Friend, Stay awhile and Listen</i> :D<p>But the first question that springs to my mind when I was reading the web page, what happened to Shareware? 30 days trial.<p>We used to have games that we could play a little to decide whether we want to buy it. Now it is like a money bet hoping for the best.
Now someone just needs to port the BoBaFeTT trainer(s) and the anti-hacks, anti-anti hacks, etc. Can’t wait to see people shooting arrows from their swords, getting PKed in town (and the town being covered in infinite fire and portals), level 1 loincloth guys suddenly equipping King's Sword of Haste and Godly Plate of the Mammoth when a duel starts etc.
I'm very happy for every web port. Old games, old OSes emulated, old apps. Please, port / emulate everything! I've recently bought one of my childhood games (Pharaoh, released 1999) from GOG and struggled for hours to run it in Windows without errors and glitches. Eventually had to give up.<p>I'm quite confident that JavaScript/Web runtime will be sufficiently maintained for decades to come -- HTML websites from early 2000s run the same now as they did 20 years ago. The same can't be said for Windows runtimes.<p>So please, port everything you can to Web. It's the best way to preserve old stuff.
Shareware download produces a 404 message. I don't see it in the github repo in the public/ [1] folder either. Maybe it was taken down recently?<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/d07RiV/diabloweb/tree/master/public" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/d07RiV/diabloweb/tree/master/public</a>
Perfect opportunity to plug one of my favorite Diablo 1 mod projects. I am in no way affiliated with this project, just like the work that was done.<p><a href="https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/features" rel="nofollow">https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/features</a>
This version fails on a JS error for me, but this one works:
<a href="https://sergi4ua.pp.ua/diabloweb/" rel="nofollow">https://sergi4ua.pp.ua/diabloweb/</a>
Clicked on the "Play Shareware" button and received a pretty message in a red box: "Request failed with status code 404." That was fun.