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Modders have done the ultimate Doom challenge: getting Doom running... inside of Doom!
"Yes, but can you run Doom on it?" is the eternal question of the modding community, who have endeavored to port iD Software's classic shooter to pretty much every device imaginable, from Raspberry PIs, to ATMs to mother-flipping printers. But now, one ambitious modder has topped them all, by porting Doom into an in-game Doom arcade machine. That's right, he has gotten Doom to run... inside of Doom.
Technically, the feat is accomplished with GZDoom, which is in of itself a heavily modified Doom source port that was first released in 2005. The mod in question is called "Classic Arcade", and brings with it semi-complete versions of both Doom and Doom-predecessor Wolfenstein 3D into the game. While the video shows that the only weapon available is the pistol, you still have to admire the insane amount of pointless effort involved in pulling something like this off.
At this stage, the only way anyone can top "The Zombie Killer" Doom-in-Doom mod is to actually somehow make another version of Doom playable from inside "Classic Arcade's" Doom arcade machine.
We need to go deeper!
Source: Ars Technica
So yeah.... That happened
Heres the video
Now to port it to a calculator, a FAX machine, and a cell phone.
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When I was in the RAF we had Doom working on an aircraft hydraulic servicing trolley.
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Yo dawg, I heard you liked Doom!
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
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timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Why did we wanna go to the Moon? Just to proove we could.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Why did we wanna go to the Moon? Just to proove we could.
To explore where we've never been? To look for other life? To colonize beyond our planet? It was certainly more than "because we could". I just don't see the point in the Doom thing...unless there's a timeframe and the most insane porting of Doom receives some kind of crazy prize.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Because we can. Just in case you're a young'in, at the time, Doom was pretty much the first of it's kind - a widely popular FPS with a widely popular multiplayer deathmatch mode, the kind of thing we take for granted these days. So, trying to get Doom to run wherever, and on whatever, you could, kind of became a thing.
"-Nonsense, the Inquisitor and his retinue are our hounoured guests, of course we should invite them to celebrate Four-armed Emperor-day with us..." Thought for the Day - Never use the powerfist hand to wipe.
timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Because we can. Just in case you're a young'in, at the time, Doom was pretty much the first of it's kind - a widely popular FPS with a widely popular multiplayer deathmatch mode, the kind of thing we take for granted these days. So, trying to get Doom to run wherever, and on whatever, you could, kind of became a thing.
I'm 30, actually. So prime age for Doom. I just don't get the big wow about modding it onto another device is all.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Why did we wanna go to the Moon? Just to proove we could.
To explore where we've never been? To look for other life? To colonize beyond our planet? It was certainly more than "because we could". I just don't see the point in the Doom thing...unless there's a timeframe and the most insane porting of Doom receives some kind of crazy prize.
timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Because we can. Just in case you're a young'in, at the time, Doom was pretty much the first of it's kind - a widely popular FPS with a widely popular multiplayer deathmatch mode, the kind of thing we take for granted these days. So, trying to get Doom to run wherever, and on whatever, you could, kind of became a thing.
I'm 30, actually. So prime age for Doom. I just don't get the big wow about modding it onto another device is all.
You've never gave yourself a challenge just to see if you can do it? Stop being that guy would ya?
timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Because we can. Just in case you're a young'in, at the time, Doom was pretty much the first of it's kind - a widely popular FPS with a widely popular multiplayer deathmatch mode, the kind of thing we take for granted these days. So, trying to get Doom to run wherever, and on whatever, you could, kind of became a thing.
I'm 30, actually. So prime age for Doom. I just don't get the big wow about modding it onto another device is all.
You've never gave yourself a challenge just to see if you can do it? Stop being that guy would ya?
I asked my roommates. 30 and 26. Both are as puzzled as I am. You people are weird.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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"Dude I'm like totally going to go climb that mountain! Why? Because its a frickin big ass mountain!", quote Edmund Hillary.
OK climbing Everest is perhaps not the same thing. ...unless its like the aforementioned running Doom on an abacus thing. We can get Tetris to run on anything these days, the next thing after that was Doom. Give it long enough and we'll have Crysis running on calculators too. Why? Because why the hell not? What else could we be doing with that time? Curing cancer?!
...How about curing cancer inside Doom!? Damn, that might actually be the excuse we need.
timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Because we can. Just in case you're a young'in, at the time, Doom was pretty much the first of it's kind - a widely popular FPS with a widely popular multiplayer deathmatch mode, the kind of thing we take for granted these days. So, trying to get Doom to run wherever, and on whatever, you could, kind of became a thing.
I'm 30, actually. So prime age for Doom. I just don't get the big wow about modding it onto another device is all.
Just to be clear, man whose username is TimeToWaste is complaining about people wasting time porting Doom into electronic devices.
This is real and happening.
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timetowaste85 wrote: So, I might be old....but I don't get it. The whole point is finding any piece of electronics that can run Doom? Why?
Because we can. Just in case you're a young'in, at the time, Doom was pretty much the first of it's kind - a widely popular FPS with a widely popular multiplayer deathmatch mode, the kind of thing we take for granted these days. So, trying to get Doom to run wherever, and on whatever, you could, kind of became a thing.
I'm 30, actually. So prime age for Doom. I just don't get the big wow about modding it onto another device is all.
Just to be clear, man whose username is TimeToWaste is complaining about people wasting time porting Doom into electronic devices.
This is real and happening.
My user name is actually from this: first song off the album "Crimson". Honestly has nothing to do with my downtime. However, I do get the irony of it all.
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Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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