There is an existential quest which is that of wanting to run Doom on all possible and imaginable objects or supports. Well, some developers go even further, since after running Doom on a pregnancy test or a Lego brick, it’s Notepad’s turn to welcome the cult title from id Software.
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Why not after all
The human imagination has no limits and this seems to have been proven to us once again. It must be said that since its release in 1993, Doom has become a cult game for many players around the world. By releasing the game code several years later, thus making it public, id Software could not imagine what they started. Doom has quickly become a standard bearer for hackers and modders, who use it to show that they have indeed succeeded in breaking through a system’s defenses. This is how, for example, we had the possibility of seeing Doom being launched on the computer system of a tractor.
Sam Chiet’s feat is a little different, however, since he revealed on Twitter that he had managed to run Doom in Notepad, the Windows notepad. And this without modifying the software in question, only by coding Doom so that it is displayed in ASCII and all in 60 frames per second.
For the moment, only the first level of the game has been presented, but according to its author, it should take him quite a short time to make Notepad Doom fully playable and thus make it public. The feat even caught the attention of John Romero who tweeted “incredible”.