{"id":1107,"date":"2015-06-18T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T21:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:30:22","slug":"nestalgia-on-macs-linux-chrome-yup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/nestalgia-on-macs-linux-chrome-yup\/","title":{"rendered":"NEStalgia on Macs? Linux? Chrome? Yup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1124\" src=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_webclient1.png\" alt=\"nes_webclient1\" width=\"200\" height=\"92\" \/>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to play NEStalgia on other platforms,\u00a0your wait is almost over.\u00a0Thanks to the hard work of the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byond.com\">BYOND<\/a> (creators of the tools used to develop\u00a0NEStalgia), we now have a working HTML5 client for the game that is playable in most major web browsers. That includes Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, and even mobile platforms.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0&#8220;NEStalgia Webclient&#8221;\u00a0employs\u00a0the same account system and\u00a0can access\u00a0the same NEStalgia servers as the desktop\u00a0client, meaning that you can basically switch back and forth from any platform at will. Opening the NEStalgia Webclient is as simple as clicking or navigating to the URL for a server and then logging in.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Webclient is very\u00a0exciting news, though it does come with a few caveats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Webclient can&#8217;t\u00a0yet be used to host or play single player games. You must join a server being hosted by someone else, such as our official servers or any public\/private server.<\/li>\n<li>This new client\u00a0can indeed be accessed by\u00a0browsers on tablets\u00a0(etc.), though the controls and the interface have not yet been adapted to make intuitive use of touch screens. In other words, tablet\/smartphone compatibility is neat, but\u00a0I don&#8217;t think that playing the game on a tablet would be much fun yet.<\/li>\n<li>Though it&#8217;s stable and works well, the Webclient is still very much in beta. You will almost certainly encounter aesthetic glitches, and your experience\u00a0may vary (for better or worse)\u00a0when using different web browsers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to give the\u00a0Webclient a spin after <a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/bolstering-the-capacity-of-nestalgia-servers\/\">v1.70.0<\/a> is released (which should be sometime this weekend). <em>[Edit: I didn&#8217;t quite get v1.70.0 finished for the weekend; my goal now is this Thursday the 25th]<\/em> \u00a0I&#8217;ll post an announcement when\u00a0both the v1.70.0 update and Webclient access are live. In the meantime, here are a few screenshots that I took while playing NEStalgia on\u00a0various devices earlier today:<\/p>\n<table id=\"custom_image_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr id=\"custom_image_tr\">\n<td id=\"custom_image_td\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1125\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1125\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_chromeos.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1125\" src=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_chromeos-300x169.png\" alt=\"NEStalgia on Chrome OS\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_chromeos-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_chromeos-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_chromeos.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEStalgia on Chrome OS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td id=\"custom_image_td\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_iphone6s.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1126\" src=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_iphone6s-300x169.png\" alt=\"NEStalgia on an iPhone 6s\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_iphone6s-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_iphone6s-1024x576.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEStalgia on an iPhone 6s<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"custom_image_tr\">\n<td id=\"custom_image_td\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1127\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_mac.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1127\" src=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_mac-300x188.png\" alt=\"NEStalgia on a Mac\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_mac-300x188.png 300w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_mac-1024x640.png 1024w, http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/nes_web_mac.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEStalgia on a Mac<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to play NEStalgia on other platforms,\u00a0your wait is almost over.\u00a0Thanks to the hard work of the folks at BYOND (creators of the tools used to develop\u00a0NEStalgia), we now have a working HTML5 client for the game that is playable in most major web browsers. That includes Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/silkgames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}