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Doom ported to run directly from a PDF file — DoomPDF port runs at approximately 12.5 FPS (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 months ago

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was reading about Tetris in a PDF 4 days ago, and wondered if Doom would be possible.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this rate I should be playing Mario 64 in a PDF this weekend

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Soon we’ll be playing crysis in a pdf

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At this point it is safe to say that doom is the most cross platform software to ever exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure curl is the actual winner here

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

what a gross response

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Technically, "hello world" is number one.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Three things are certain in life: Death, Taxes, and Doom running on things you didn't think could run Doom.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At this point, Skyrim and Doom are both competing with each other to port into the most preposterous items.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Skyrim has nothing on Doom. The crazy Skyrim "ports" aren't ports at all but just the opening video.

Doom is on everything with a screen and a CPU.

Doom on 1998 digital camera:

https://youtu.be/7gCZZkBATSc

Doom on Microwave:

https://youtu.be/mM7cMG49N8Y

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Most of those are legit, but I do take issue with the pregnancy test one. Replacing the original electronics with entirely new hardware doesn't really count. A pregnancy test screen only has 3 or 4 LCD segments.

The smart bulb one at least partially counts, since it's using the original processor from the bulb just with a display and buttons added.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah, in order for it to count as "running doom", it should be required for the actual hardware to run the game's code.

If you're just using whichever device to display it, "bad apple" should be the benchmark.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

That one is not actually running doom on bacteria. That is only using bacteria as some sort of screen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Direct link:
https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

(github)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Portable Doom Facsimile

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gamer equivalent of getting Linux to run on a toaster.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But can it run Crysis?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's only a matter of time.