It’s simply delivered as a plugin via the browser — otherwise it runs fully X86, Windows native code. It used to not run on Linux, but a quick check and it seems to with some caveats.
As for browser based 3D games… might not be as far off as you think. Open these in a (very) recent version of Chrome…
Quake Live *is* native
It’s simply delivered as a plugin via the browser — otherwise it runs fully X86, Windows native code. It used to not run on Linux, but a quick check and it seems to with some caveats.
As for browser based 3D games… might not be as far off as you think. Open these in a (very) recent version of Chrome…
http://3dflashlo.free.fr/webgl2013/index.html
http://delight-engine.com/camera/client/
(More at http://www.chromeexperiments.com/webgl/)