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[IbizaPocholo]

This nice chap made DOOM playable on Notepad.exe, for reasons

Soon we'll have DOOM running on literal paper.

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Perhaps the most ported game of all time, DOOM has been ported to the Apple Watch, graphics calculators, and even a pregnancy test. But the ports keep on coming, and now we even have it running on unmodified Notepad.exe on Windows 10, using ASCII graphics as a rendering engine. For reasons.

Created by developer and YouTuber Samperson, we can see the above running entirely within a Notepad window on Windows. This is running with zero modifications to the Notepad executable, and is fully playable. Samperson says he plans to release NotepadDOOM in the coming days, too.

 

[Badlucktroll]

lol weird

 

[Saber]

Its an impressive port but very monocrhome way to play.

 

[consoul]

Presumably an ASCII rendering being pasted into notepad.exe every refresh. L33T.

 

[PendekarRajawali]

People do things with their spare time.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Because why not.

 

[GHG]

Still better than cloud gaming.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Turn on v Sync. Gosh!

 

[TintoConCasera]

Why not do it in Notepad++? This cross-gen charade must stop already.

 

[01011001]

correction: it was not ported to a pregnancy test. they simply used the display of a digital pregnancy test as the output display

 

[tommib]

Looks cross-gen.

 

[fatmarco]

Still better than cloud gaming.

I mean I sort of would have agreed with you prior to using cloud gaming, but have you tried Cloud gaming at all?

It's a pretty good tool for a lot of games on game pass for example.

 

[BusierDonkey]

But what framerate does the 4090 play it at vs the 3090?

 

[Fake]

There are no limits to this game.

 

[Ivan]

I'm starting to get tired of those stupid doom runs on any kind of shit things...

 

[GHG]

I mean I sort of would have agreed with you prior to using cloud gaming, but have you tried Cloud gaming at all?

It's a pretty good tool for a lot of games on game pass for example.

Yes I have and no thanks. But nice try.

 

[SmokedMeat]

I'm starting to get tired of those stupid doom runs on any kind of shit things...

 

[Skifi28]

Still better than cloud gaming.

I dont know, we need a notepad app on the cloud to compare.

 

[GHG]

I dont know, we need a notepad app on the cloud to compare.

Not interested until it comes to notepad pass.

 

[Orta]

Utterly ridiculous

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

i run doom on a bathtub powered toaster

 

[Cock of War]

i run doom on a bathtub powered toaster

Everytime I take a bath its like Doom. Watch out for those exploding barrels and cacademons.

 

[stranno]

Unmodified Notepad because, of course, Doom is not running on the Notepad itself. It is probably running on a regular Doom source engine and rendering the image into the memory chunk where Notepad stores de text.

Long story of "Doom running on this thing because it is actually not running on this thing".

 

[Torrent of Pork]

I'm starting to get tired of those stupid doom runs on any kind of shit things...

 

[Magic Carpet]

Unmodified Notepad because, of course, Doom is not running on the Notepad itself. It is probably running on a regular Doom source engine and rendering the image into the memory chunk where Notepad stores de text.

Long story of "Doom running on this thing because it is actually not running on this thing".

Really? So this is nothing more than rendering it to Notepad then Printing it out each frame as a giant Flipbook?

 

[stranno]

Really? So this is nothing more than rendering it to Notepad then Printing it out each frame as a giant Flipbook?

Dev hasn't explained anything yet. But that's certainly the case. I guess he is using the ASCII Doom code.

 

[nkarafo]

Perhaps the most ported game of all time, DOOM has been ported to the Apple Watch, graphics calculators, and even a pregnancy test.

Many of them not being DOOM ports at all though.

This whole "DOOM runs on anything" is sometimes not the case. Like how they managed to port DOOM on the NES but in reality it runs on a FPGA chip inside the NES cart and doesn't really use the NES hardware other than the video output.

Or other times it's not even DOOM but something using an engine similar to Wolfenstein 3D with DOOM sprites shoved in.

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

Everytime I take a bath its like Doom. Watch out for those exploding barrels and cacademons.

the easiest way to beat cacademons is to bind the melee key to wafflestomp

 

[Elder Legend]

But can the notepad.exe run Crysis? That's the real question.

 

[tygertrip]

I mean I sort of would have agreed with you prior to using cloud gaming, but have you tried Cloud gaming at all?

It's a pretty good tool for a lot of games on game pass for example.

You can always count on someone to take a joke completely seriously. I mean no offense, I've done the same before!

 

[tygertrip]

I'm starting to get tired of those stupid doom runs on any kind of shit things...

So? Just ignore them.

 

[Fahdis]

Still better than cloud gaming.

There are many opinions of inferior quality. This is one of them.

 

[Gambit2483]

Yea, but can it run Crysis?

 

[RoadHazard]

But can the notepad.exe run Crysis? That's the real question.

Yea, but can it run Crysis?

The game isn't actually running in Notepad, it's just being "rendered" in it somehow (which is still neat). The actual game is running outside it, so I would say the same thing could be done with any game. You just need to render the game output as ASCII text somehow.

 

[deriks]

I'm starting to get tired of those stupid doom runs on any kind of shit things...

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

lol, that's neat

 

[UnNamed]

IF we consider the "platforms" only, so OS+Architecture, Doom doesn't run on so many platform, since many of them are just Win+X86. In this case I think Prince of Persia has more ports than Doom.

 

[tommib]

IF we consider the "platforms" only, so OS+Architecture, Doom doesn't run on so many platform, since many of them are just Win+X86. In this case I think Prince of Persia has more ports than Doom.

AKHTUALLY

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Its an impressive port but very monocrhome way to play.

Would you say it gets MONOtonous after a while?

 

[Badlucktroll]

need to play doom on samsung smart fridge

 

[CYRU5_DA_GR34T]

This nice chap made DOOM playable on Notepad.exe, for reasons

Soon we'll have DOOM running on literal paper.

www.windowscentral.com

Perhaps the most ported game of all time, DOOM has been ported to the Apple Watch, graphics calculators, and even a pregnancy test. But the ports keep on coming, and now we even have it running on unmodified Notepad.exe on Windows 10, using ASCII graphics as a rendering engine. For reasons.

Created by developer and YouTuber Samperson, we can see the above running entirely within a Notepad window on Windows. This is running with zero modifications to the Notepad executable, and is fully playable. Samperson says he plans to release NotepadDOOM in the coming days, too.

Speaking as someone who writes code, this is legit impressive

 

[Badlucktroll]

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