Playing Doom in a PDF!!!
Jan. 15th, 2025 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThe game was released 32 years ago, and inspired by someone figuring out how to play Tetris in a PDF, someone known only by their Github alias worked out how to make Doom playable in said PDF! It has a refresh rate of 32 ms and is in glorious 6-bit monochrome, but you can actually play Knee-Deep In The Dead in a PDF!
While completely silly, this is quite awesome! People have figured out how to hack refrigerators, washing machines, coffee makers, and all sorts of things to play Doom. If it has an LCD screen of some sort, it either has Doom running on it somewhere, or someone is working on it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/doom_delivered_in_a_pdf/
While completely silly, this is quite awesome! People have figured out how to hack refrigerators, washing machines, coffee makers, and all sorts of things to play Doom. If it has an LCD screen of some sort, it either has Doom running on it somewhere, or someone is working on it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/doom_delivered_in_a_pdf/
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Date: 2025-01-15 05:49 pm (UTC)Shuddup! Shuddup! Shuddup! **Shakes fist at cloud**
No not The Cloud, a cloud. Back in the day, if we wanted new software, we went to the store and bought it on disk, dadburnit!
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Date: 2025-01-15 06:03 pm (UTC)Sometimes buying a pack of CDs that was five feet long! Yeah, I know. When I worked for the police department through most of the '90s, I was one of the three network admins. We had some other IT guys in our little cluster. We bought a small switch, ran some ethernet cables through the ceiling, and at lunch time on Fridays we'd sign off the network, switch cables, and run Quake or Unreal, or other games for a couple of hours. Sometimes we'd make lunch runs out to Fry's Electronics to buy video cards or what have you.