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.

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

 

[Dimensional]

Crysis next?

Asking if we can run Crysis in PDF, or run Doom in Crysis?

 

[ciro64]

Harnessing the built in JavaScript capabilities of the PDF format

the what now

 

[Kioku]

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

Just download the port from the eshop.

 

[Deleted member 706757]

Asking if we can run Crysis in PDF, or run Doom in Crysis?

Both would be funny tbh

 

[Robert Newbie]

Just download the port from the eshop.

Don't you go making things simple.

Don't you go making things official.

Don't you go making things priced.

 

[Kioku]

Don't you go making things simple.

Don't you go making things official.

Don't you go making things priced.

Fair enough

 

[DrPerkeleeee]

Awesome to see it on an PDF file! This is brilliant

 

[SDA]

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

Let's be serious instead. I would like to see it either on the Sega Master System or on the Turbografx-CD/PC-Engine CD.

 

[64bitmodels]

Now make it work on a highway billboard

 

[RedoLane]

Can't wait for that one ridiculous UV-Max speedrun on the PDF version.

 

[Lostbhoy]

Should be this version....

 

[BraveDragonWolf]

...My notebook could probably run Doom too...

 

[CoolMe]

"PDF", where the D stands for Doom

 

[HarveyHouston]

DOOM is everywhere...

 

[CMDreamer]

A word o' warning though, getting a Javascript-enabled PDF from an unsecure/unsafe source its potentially dangerous for your system.

You've been warned.

 

[slaphappygamer]

I’m going to print it out.

 

[lightwo]

I guess that's the new Dino minigame for the unfortunate folks whose organisation/institution blocked it.

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I’m going to print it out.

That explains everything! Hogwarts must've printed PDFs with embedded JavaScript to create their magical portraits.

 

[Cranesbill]

Bruh





Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall.[1] The series usually focuses on the exploits of an unnamed space marine (often referred to as Doomguy or Doom Slayer) operating under the auspices of the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), who fights hordes of demons and the undead to save Earth from an apocalyptic invasion.

The original Doom is considered one of the first pioneering first-person shooter games, introducing to IBM-compatible computers features such as 3D graphics, third-dimension spatiality, networked multiplayer gameplay, and support for player-created modifications with the Doom WAD format. Over ten million copies of games in the Doom series have been sold; the series has spawned numerous sequels, novels, comic books, board games, and film adaptations.

 

[Jayro]

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

We might get DOOM: The Dark Ages on Switch 2...

 

[luigiestbeau]

I'd like to run doom on an ebook reader