The latest platform to fall victim to the relentless porting of the 1993 classic DOOM is the Portable Document Format, or PDF, developed by Adobe in 1992. Harnessing the built in JavaScript capabilities of the PDF format, high school student ading2210 took it upon themselves to get doom-ascii up and running within the popular file format.

Currently doompdf only works in Chromium based browsers where user inputs are captured through supported text fields and buttons in Chromium's PDF engine and uses ASCII characters in text fields, one per screen row, to achieve 6-color monochrome output to draw the game.

Check it out yourself at the link below and let us know what you think the next target for DOOM will be.

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Play here: https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf

 

[Veho]

Apparently PDF is Turing-complete. Who knew.

 

[Myoon_Island]

Ummm, a playable PDF, interesting!

 

[Flame]

is this real? Sounds like something @AlanJohn would say to me to troll me

 

[Deleted member 706757]

Crysis next?

 

[tech3475]

At this point, it's more a question of what can't run Doom.

 

[Egoistamamono]

Doom deserves to be GOTY, because it's on all the systems you didn't even think of before.

 

[KeeperCP1]

At this point, it's more a question of what can't run Doom.

i can think of only one thing that can't run doom, and it's the human body

..dang, now i wanna do something to myself

 

[hamohamo]

i can think of only one thing that can't run doom, and it's the human body

..dang, now i wanna do something to myself

they made it run on gut bacteria so it is playable on the human body

 

[EpikJimmer]

WHAT HOW HUH?

 

[VinsCool]

So basically javascript rendered in PDF, pretty neat.

 

[DarthDub]

This is cooler than the Switch 2.

 

[Robert Newbie]

I love it. Doom on your Alarmo, Doom on your pregnancy test, Doom on your Chromium-based PDF engine.

Kudos to the dev(s). At this rate, DOOM may be the most well-preserved game in existence.

 

[Dud]

Roll up to the office rocking Doom on PDF.

 

[Osha]

"Doom runs on everything" is one of these little jokes that simply never gets old because people always find more and more absurd ways to make it happen, gotta love it.

 

[The Catboy]

Finally, peak doom

 

[BlusterBong]

0/10, it's not running in the kernel

 

[SDA]

Is there a gaming platform that still needs a port of DOOM yet? Because I can't think of one anymore with all those ports in recent years.

 

[ChaosEternal]

Now we just need to get Doom running in Powerpoint!

 

[Robert Newbie]

Is there a gaming platform that still needs a port of DOOM yet? Because I can't think of one anymore with all those ports in recent years.

The obvious joke answer is the Switch 2, but I wager it'll be one of the first releases in the homebrew scene.