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The meme of running doom on unconventional platforms simply won’t die. DOOM was one of the first games that Microsoft used to demonstrate its DirectX technology in 1996, and the game remains a major fixture in the shooter legend, with Wolfenstein included as one of those games. Which make the genre massively popular.
DOOM Eternal and undoubtedly future games remain under id Software, but the classic DOOM is still porting itself to the least likely places.
Perhaps the most ported game ever, DOOM has been ported to the Apple Watch, graphics calculators, and even pregnancy tests. But the ports keep coming, and now we have it running on Windows 10 even on unmodified Notepad.exe, using ASCII graphics as the rendering engine. for reasons.
Developer and YouTuber. Created by Samperson, we can see the above running entirely within the Notepad window on Windows. It runs with zero modifications to the Notepad executable, and is fully runnable. Samperson says that he plans to release NotepadDOOM in the coming days as well.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, Samperson is also working to revive Microsoft’s murdered Kinect accessory. For those who don’t know, the Kinect was a camera technology that runs as part of the HoloLens, along with advanced tracking technologies aimed at powering motion-controlled games. In practice, it didn’t work particularly well, and had moderate support from developers. Despite this, Microsoft continues to refine the ideas behind it for the HoloLens augmented reality camera array, but what about the camera itself?
In a video full of dramatic twists and turns, Samperson outlines his plan to revive Microsoft’s ruined peripheral with a snowboarding game that actually looks like fun.
Maybe next we’ll get KinectDOOM? Anyone can dream.
