‘Doom’ works on Bitcoin, Dogecoin and ChatGPT — and now on PDFs too

It’s become a meme to know that it’s a classic video game Doom can be played on almost any device or platform, and the popular file format is the latest in a long line.

Krypto Brothers has got a basic shooter Working on Bitcoin and also Dogecoin through it NFT– the respective protocols ordinals and the Doginalsand students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have theorized that they can even run using it intestinal bacteria.

Now, the name is called a high school student Ading2210 on GitHub made it possible for anyone to play Doom Portable Document Format, commonly known as PDF. Players just happen to be open the game in their Chromium-based browser — Google Chrome, Brave Browseretc.—and play using the buttons or keyboard controls in the document.

Admittedly, it’s a little annoying. Plays the game, but has a harsh pixelated monochrome picture and no sound. But it has more to do with the game’s prowess Doom Inside a PDF document, rather than PDF files, which are the next frontier in the game. In other words, it’s unlikely that anyone will will come To play Doom via PDF, but now we know it’s possible.

This has long been a joke and a technical challenge with the 1993 first-person shooter. In 1997, developer id Software open-sourced Doom, making the game a favorite for fans and hobbyists to experiment with.

Over the years, developers have managed to make Doom work cash ATMs, lawn mowerspregnancy tests, Bitcoin, Dogecoin, ChatGPTnow PDF files. This is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, there’s a Reddit community dedicated to that exact cause r/ItRunsDoom With over 100,000 members.

In this subreddit, our Doom PDF creator is proud published his workhe explains how he did it. Simply put, he found that PDF files support Javascript and that older versions of the Emscripten code compiler can modify the game code to run on that system, as long as it uses the game code version.

Although the subreddit liked it, this post is still far from the community’s all-time favorite. It is currently in the top position Doom running in Minecraftwith other works such as Doom on an to come iPod, ticket validatorand a vape“We really could go on forever.”

Edited by Andrew Hayward