Doom 'runs' over DNS text entries now, because everything is possible if you believe in yourself

What's next, a literal potato? Oh yeah. Done that.

Doom now runs over DNS, loading from nearly 2,000 text records

A recently released port of Doom can load into memory from Cloudflare without ever writing files to the disc. The project ...

Developer rebuilds Doom using only CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom ...
Yardbarker

A Single QR Code Contains Doom…Sort Of

A developer has achieved the seemingly impossible: fitting a playable, Doom-inspired game entirely within a single QR code by leveraging extreme code minification, Zlib+Gzip compression, and the ...
TweakTown

The most boring protocol on the Internet can now run DOOM, loading from nearly 2,000 text records

DNS text records and a PowerShell script is the latest absurd way someone has managed to get the iconic first-person shooter ...
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Behold! A single QR code containing a miniaturized take on Doom: 'literally the entire game'

There's something a bit magical about shareware stalwart Doom and folks' compulsion to make it run on absolutely everything. Present a sufficiently motivated individual with the game's open source ...
AV Club

Developers of Popular Doom Fan Port Go Seperate Ways Over Unapproved AI-Generated Code

Doom has a long history of fan-made source ports on PC since the original game’s source code was publicly shared by ID Software in 1997. These ports aim to enhance and preserve the game, making mods ...
TweakTown

Someone made DOOM run on earbuds, and the internet can play it

TL;DR: Developers have successfully ported the classic 1993 first-person shooter DOOM to PineBuds Pro earbuds by leveraging their open-source software and limited hardware. The game runs on the ...