Help Rescue My Game
January 11th, 2007
A while back I wrote a game called Wolf5K, which was a re-creation of the original first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D in only 5K of Javascript. There’s an online tutorial about how this was accomplished. It used an archaic 1-bit image type called XBM, originally designed for the X Window System, to dynamically generate bitmap images via Javascript.
I’ve just discovered that XBM images no longer work in Windows XP. There apparently was a recent security update that removed support for this image type, and it won’t be included in IE7. This means that the game will no longer work, unless there’s a way around this restriction. I’d like to keep the game up, so if you have any ideas, please contact me.
