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/
Re: Classy!
Date: 2025-01-15 07:22 pm (UTC)I read about that last week! I thought it was pretty cool.