In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the browser, on 5 kilobytes per second. It worked. Let’s follow a single step and see how.
  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    Runescape was a game that ran in the browser built with Java.

    That is NOT a typo or a misunderstanding, NOT javascript, but actually Java.

  • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    Heh, I remember when that encryption part was added to the protocol, back in the RuneScape Classic days (it was just called “RuneScape” as it was the only version). I was part of the botting community back then, and it (temporarily) killed AutoRune, which worked by automating commands to send to the server.