DOOM is now playable in PDF format

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

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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.
 
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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.
 

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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.
 

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